Without looking up google do you know 1) what an OEM is... 2) what ghost is for 3) how to make incremental backups using windows 4) have at least 1 or more client whose pc you service 5) know how to mediate between charging for fixing a computer
compared to the price of an upgrade to a used but newer one
for your client? 6) Have ever used Linux as a primary OS 7) If 6 is yes, which distro.
thank you for that one, I also do think we are moving towards a more interesting time for governments as a whole....especially with the internet. Obama is a sort of saviour if you will for the US to technologically become more aware, I find, for the government (not military) and I think if we embrace the fact that government is as vulnerable as anything else, and that even the US could someday get toppled over, and a new government spring up, although I would never fathom what could be better then this, but the next better movement will come along...and put us that much closer to utopia...
>From the short article linked: "An Iranian official said the measure was meant >to boost local development of Internet technology and to build trust between >people and the government, according to the Wall Street Journal." I have to say, I know some Iranians that live over there, and it is all about controlling the media and the information. If they leave gmail to do this, they lose control of the info, and they do not want to lose control. So let's tell people you are no longer allowed to use gmail for we are far too controlling, instead use our homemade brew of gmail, and we will be able to read all your emails and that of your friends...
Seriously, I would hate to live over there for this simple reason, let alone all the war and crime presently over there.
I was about to say, Tor makes this all useless anyways, as well, makes anyone that has half a brain to realize they are fighting a loosing battle spending all the tax payers money doing it in the process.
Well, that makes all the difference now, I was all for what they were doing, but now, I just can't stand female ejaculation, especially when it's my GF that is doing it all over me... I mean come on, why would we want to see it on the internet, like anyone would find that really, really, REALLY HOT.
Yeah, mon ftw, and all that, except.....do you have kids, and a mortgage, and family in the hospital, and etc,etc,etc. As much as it might be easy for some to pick up and just change programming languages or environments, it might not be for the next guy.
Second how much do you program....? When was the last time you know someone hired a 10 year vb.net programmer that knows all there is to know about that product, to fill a java,c++,per,python,php position, within other companies... none that would pay the salary you should be expecting with your present day language.
Why do you think there is such a problem for older programmers to get work, they are out dated and have mostly not stayed in touch with other langs, or new technologies. I hate to say it, but I made my decision a long time ago, to go for the easiest lang to find a job in , in case x or y or z were to happen. As much as M$ is the devil (for how they run things), they did a lot of good for the programming world, by bringing modules together before anyone else thought of it. Making interfaces for their products that made life so easy, in fact, most programmers that learn VS in school, do not know the first thing about how the language is really compiled (through the internal language changing the vb code into byte code.)
I should not even have replied as I am not sure even how much you know of the field to even make such an ignorant comment, but fact is, M$ is the devil...get used to it. The day they stop buying up their competitor and destroying the company and keeping the technology, and bettering the overall field, instead of just their own.....is the day I take back what I said, until then, nuff said.
I never said I hated windows xp, quite on the contrary, it is my favorite of all windows, which is why I would never go for vista or 7 but I do hate M$ corp for what they stand for "today". It was very different back in the day, as compared to today. Also, I never complained about about problems inside windowsxp, just the activation process and the fact that I have many clients that are noobs(like you?) with windows and pcs as a whole.
Not just because your auto updates are on that you have no virus or that you know what you are doing with computers, i might add. Also, if you know nothing about diagnostics for windows OS, how would you know if you are stable or reliable if you are running with configs out of the box, and have stayed this way the whole time you had the machine.
Do a few tests with your pc first, let's see how long it takes to copy a 1gb file across usb2.0, or what your cpu clocks out at compared to what is supposed to do, or let's see what your transfer rate is for your ethernet....then we'll talk about whether your pc is really fine or not....most people don't even realize their machines are affected because they got used to it, or know nothing about what it should be.
It would be nice to see if they have some for Canada as well, I am looking forward also to them offering their successful venture once it is up and running to the public as a replacement to most disgruntled ISP clients that are tired of not having any choices.
I have to agree a million times with you here, they way that windows validates their genuine advantage, is a farse. Someone can brute force the key, and guess what, that key gets blacklisted if used enough times to validate, well, low and behold if it was your key that was guessed, your sh*t out of luck. I have many times in the past used the sticker to call in and say hey, I got this sticker on the side of my machine saying its valid, and now you have blocked that key, what gives, they then give you a new key, or so it used to be like that.
Recently I had to call in to activate my windows, and the phone operator you used to be able to get, is no longer available, or maybe switched, but I could not after 4 tries(different phone calls, with the whole slew of choices), find a real operator to explain the problem...luckily I was able to recover a key from another version, but in the mean time, had I had not had that key, I would have been stuck going around in circles with no real help for my now supposedly illegal copy.
All things considered, I will never upgrade past windowsxp, (knock on wood) as I truly believe that M$ is the devil, and I have far too much invested on my machines to switch to linux, I program in vb.net for a company, so I can not just simply change as the wine.net framework is not up to par for real programming....but I dream of the day I will be free of this monster.
Being also a part time computer tech with a few clients that depend on me to be up to date in windows and also have some copies of windows lying around, I have found that it is easier for me to partition their drives and teach them to keep their files on the separate partition or another drive, and also I image their disk every so often, especially when they are too cheap to buy an AV and get stung repeatedly, I do not complain, I charge 40$ an hour....I have an image that is replaceable within minutes of them calling me and me picking up their pc, and also this just costs me usually the 20gb of HDD space (or so) for each client, so I tend to have image backups on my external drives for when they come calling. This also avoids redoing any windows BS that i hate with a passion, like downloading updates and patches..i have all of those in service packs.
The fact that taskmanager these days is so easy to replace or rootkit, and hide what is really going on, I wonder if it really would be better to ship these instead, it would give possibly some more obstacles for a virus to take over your computer....if the code was well written, I believe that taskmanager is so easy to spike because it has a lot of holes... just my 2 cents.
Wow, what a nice post about gmail, I never knew you could apply gay, transexual prostitutes and televangelist with gmail in the same sentence, I guess you learn something new everyday.
The way virtualization works is it is a virtual layer spread across many nodes to avoid any down time when you get one node that fails, the rest pick up the slack, and without having to stop the running systems. This is using linux architecture to cluster many computers on the bottom layer, so as to have the look of one mega computer, when it actually is 100 computers or more...etc...
Then we get into supercomputing, which again uses clusters and usually uses linux, to be able to make all the computers act as if it was one big computer, giving the advantage of multi-processors to be able to calculate much faster common operations, etc....
Now combining the 2, we could....what is the advantage again, of putting a cluster on top of a cluster, I need to understand, because I don't see it, either one of these are used to make a supercomputer per se, but one is virtual, the other is physical.... either case, the advantage is the same from both, but merging the 2, would have too much of a slow down if you ask me, with all the backend needing to monitor the other backend to load balance , raid, etc.... it just seems like it is a test to see if you can do it, but would you get any real advantage out of it, I am not so sure....someone with knowledge of vms, and supercomputers , please enlighten me.
I have to agree here, I am sure there would have been no that much hoopla, if the guy waited 6 months after the game came out, and made it a little more hush, hush that is was available for download, how did they link it to him, btw? I am sure someone plugging torrents with files of this game from a cybercafe, and using TOR could remain anonymous, unless of course they inserted code specific to each programmer, and then compile time, they knew who the leak was....
Can you imagine someone tries to grab a hold of the door handle while he is standing in the rain, and somehow wires got crossed (its a toyota),.....oh the irony of it all.
But the white hatters being able to time travel send a robot back in time far enough to look up all the evil hacker's mom's and kill them all before any of this has started.
I just wonder if evil hackers that did make it into the future before they got diced, were able to find a way to look up those white hackers grandparents and send a robot back then ,...or wait a minute...
If we are talking about military level equipment, do not get stuff made in china, end of story, if we are talking about stuff for the home, we live in a society where the cheaper the better, so it will be impossible not to buy stuff made in china (ahem....linksys routers as example)...and would be even more impossible to stop using them all together, however, if you are smart about what you do, and when, you can avoid transmitting your info...you still need active connection, so if you don't leave your internet on 24/7 then you might have a chance. Leave it on all day long, even with the best firewalls...you still come up short.
Call it infighting, call it spending your time making sure you save your own ass, call it afraid to change with the times, when you hire new blood and don't back their ideas....I am sure there is plenty of creative people at M$, they just get held back or kept down a lot, because the bureaucracy over there is what is the most important, contrary to a place like Google, where they really push for you to come up with great new ideas, even if you don't have a engineering degree, they will listen and even ponder on your ideas.
I think if M$ had someone else running the show, they could really surpass Google, to become top dog again, but not with the present project plan, or people in charge.
What a f*cken moron that guy is, really...whining about not having to spend so much money to print on paper and cause pollution world wide, he should be shot. Poor buddy can't afford another rolls, so let's complain instead of making proper decision making and cutting budget in places where it would benefit his company (his large yearly bonus for example)
So when a patient now knows in his incoherent state that he is actually in a coma, and can communicate with others, then does that mean he can still be held at his word.... Salesman>I thought you said we had a deal Vegetable>.....yes Salesman>So we did have a deal, or you admit to not keeping the deal Vegetable>.....no Salesman>Stop playing with me, I might have to hurt you.... Vegetable>.....
We could have a chair in Antarctica, with a brain attachment, where we could simply use our brain waves to activate and operate under possible invasion from a distant alien life form???
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Without looking up google do you know
1) what an OEM is...
2) what ghost is for
3) how to make incremental backups using windows
4) have at least 1 or more client whose pc you service
5) know how to mediate between charging for fixing a computer
compared to the price of an upgrade to a used but newer one
for your client?
6) Have ever used Linux as a primary OS
7) If 6 is yes, which distro.
thank you for that one, I also do think we are moving towards a more
interesting time for governments as a whole....especially with the internet.
Obama is a sort of saviour if you will for the US to technologically become more aware,
I find, for the government (not military) and I think if we embrace the fact
that government is as vulnerable as anything else, and that even the US could someday
get toppled over, and a new government spring up, although I would never fathom what could
be better then this, but the next better movement will come along...and put us that
much closer to utopia...
Really?, ...some people only see the words, but when you put them
together they actually get more meaning...you should try it sometime
ps- you are write, my typo is such an eye sore, I could not help myself
to bitchslap you either....think you'll waste your time again?
>From the short article linked: "An Iranian official said the measure was meant
>to boost local development of Internet technology and to build trust between
>people and the government, according to the Wall Street Journal."
I have to say, I know some Iranians that live over there, and it is all about controlling the media and the information.
If they leave gmail to do this, they lose control of the info, and they do not want to lose control.
So let's tell people you are no longer allowed to use gmail for we are far too controlling, instead use our homemade brew of gmail, and we will be able to read all your emails and that of your friends...
Seriously, I would hate to live over there for this simple reason, let alone all the war and crime presently over there.
I was about to say, Tor makes this all useless anyways, as well, makes anyone that has half a brain
to realize they are fighting a loosing battle spending all the tax payers money doing it in the process.
careful, your ignorance is showing.
Well, that makes all the difference now, I was all for what they were doing, but now, I just can't stand female ejaculation, especially when it's my GF that is doing it all over me...
I mean come on, why would we want to see it on the internet, like anyone would find that really, really, REALLY HOT.
"Squirt 'em if you got 'em"
Yeah, mon ftw, and all that, except.....do you have kids, and a mortgage,
and family in the hospital, and etc,etc,etc. As much as it might be easy for some to pick up and just change programming languages or environments, it might not be for the next guy.
Second how much do you program....?
When was the last time you know someone hired a 10 year vb.net programmer that knows all there is to know about that product, to fill a java,c++,per,python,php position, within other companies...
none that would pay the salary you should be expecting with your present day language.
Why do you think there is such a problem for older programmers to get work, they are out dated and have mostly not stayed in touch with other langs, or new technologies. I hate to say it, but I made my decision a long time ago, to go for the easiest lang to find a job in , in case x or y or z were to happen. As much as M$ is the devil (for how they run things), they did a lot of good for the programming world, by bringing modules together before anyone else thought of it. Making interfaces for their products that made life so easy, in fact, most programmers that learn VS in school, do not know the first thing about how the language is really compiled (through the internal language changing the vb code into byte code.)
I should not even have replied as I am not sure even how much you know of the field to even make such an ignorant comment, but fact is, M$ is the devil...get used to it. The day they stop buying up their competitor and destroying the company and keeping the technology, and bettering the overall field, instead of just their own.....is the day I take back what I said, until then, nuff said.
I never said I hated windows xp, quite on the contrary, it is my favorite of all windows, which is why I would never go for vista or 7 but I do hate M$ corp for what they stand for "today".
It was very different back in the day, as compared to today.
Also, I never complained about about problems inside windowsxp,
just the activation process and the fact that I have many clients that are noobs(like you?)
with windows and pcs as a whole.
Not just because your auto updates are on that you have no virus or that you know what you are doing with computers, i might add. Also, if you know nothing about diagnostics for windows OS, how would you know if you are stable or reliable if you are running with configs out of the box, and have stayed this way the whole time you had the machine.
Do a few tests with your pc first, let's see how long it takes to copy a 1gb file across usb2.0, or what your cpu clocks out at compared to what is supposed to do, or let's see what your transfer rate is for your ethernet....then we'll talk about whether your pc is really fine or not....most people don't even realize their machines are affected because they got used to it, or know nothing about what it should be.
It would be nice to see if they have some for Canada as well, I am looking forward also to them offering their successful venture once it is up and running to the public as a replacement to most disgruntled ISP clients that are tired of not having any choices.
I have to agree a million times with you here, they way that windows validates their genuine advantage, is a farse.
Someone can brute force the key, and guess what, that key gets blacklisted if used enough times to validate, well, low and behold if it was your key that was guessed, your sh*t out of luck. I have many times in the past used the sticker to call in and say hey, I got this sticker on the side of my machine saying its valid, and now you have blocked that key, what gives, they then give you a new key, or so it used to be like that.
Recently I had to call in to activate my windows, and the phone operator you used to be able to get, is no longer available, or maybe switched, but I could not after 4 tries(different phone calls, with the whole slew of choices), find a real operator to explain the problem...luckily I was able to recover a key from another version, but in the mean time, had I had not had that key, I would have been stuck going around in circles with no real help for my now supposedly illegal copy.
All things considered, I will never upgrade past windowsxp, (knock on wood) as I truly believe that M$ is the devil, and I have far too much invested on my machines to switch to linux, I program in vb.net for a company, so I can not just simply change as the wine .net framework is not up to par for real programming....but I dream of the day I will be free of this monster.
Being also a part time computer tech with a few clients that depend on me to be up to date in windows and also have some copies of windows lying around, I have found that it is easier for me to partition their drives and teach them to keep their files on the separate partition or another drive, and also I image their disk every so often, especially when they are too cheap to buy an AV and get stung repeatedly, I do not complain, I charge 40$ an hour....I have an image that is replaceable within minutes of them calling me and me picking up their pc, and also this just costs me usually the 20gb of HDD space (or so) for each client, so I tend to have image backups on my external drives for when they come calling. This also avoids redoing any windows BS that i hate with a passion, like downloading updates and patches..i have all of those in service packs.
Dude, I would so mod you up if only I had some points, wish I had kept some for a rainy day, ....or now!
"What you go through in high school usually ends up being the opposite in real life."
The fact that taskmanager these days is so easy to replace or rootkit, and hide what is really going on, I wonder if it really would be better to ship these instead, it would give possibly some more obstacles for a virus to take over your computer....if the code was well written, I believe that taskmanager is so easy to spike because it has a lot of holes...
just my 2 cents.
Wow, what a nice post about gmail, I never knew you could apply gay, transexual prostitutes and televangelist with gmail in the same sentence, I guess you learn something new everyday.
The way virtualization works is it is a virtual layer spread across many nodes to avoid any down time when you get
one node that fails, the rest pick up the slack, and without having to stop the running systems. This is using linux architecture to
cluster many computers on the bottom layer, so as to have the look of one mega computer, when it actually is 100 computers or more...etc...
Then we get into supercomputing, which again uses clusters and usually uses linux, to be able to make all the computers act as if it was one big computer, giving the advantage of multi-processors to be able to calculate much faster common operations, etc....
Now combining the 2, we could ....what is the advantage again, of putting a cluster on top of a cluster, I need to understand, because I don't see it, either one of these are used to make a supercomputer per se, but one is virtual, the other is physical....
either case, the advantage is the same from both, but merging the 2, would have too much of a slow down if you ask me, with all the
backend needing to monitor the other backend to load balance , raid, etc.... it just seems like it is a test to see if you can do it, but would you get any real advantage out of it, I am not so sure....someone with knowledge of vms, and supercomputers , please enlighten me.
I have to agree here, I am sure there would have been no that much hoopla, if the guy waited 6 months after the game came out, and made it a little more hush, hush that is was available for download, how did they link it to him, btw?
I am sure someone plugging torrents with files of this game from a cybercafe, and using TOR could remain anonymous, unless of course they inserted code specific to each programmer, and then compile time, they knew who the leak was....
Can you imagine someone tries to grab a hold of the door handle while he is standing in the rain,
and somehow wires got crossed (its a toyota),.....oh the irony of it all.
"If you can't fight them, give them electrifying"
But the white hatters being able to time travel send a robot back in time far enough to look up all the evil hacker's mom's and kill them all before any of this has started.
I just wonder if evil hackers that did make it into the future before they got diced, were able to find a way to look up those white hackers grandparents and send a robot back then , ...or wait a minute...
If we are talking about military level equipment, do not get stuff made in china, end of story, if we are talking about stuff for the home, we live in a society where the cheaper the better, so it will be impossible not to buy stuff made in china (ahem....linksys routers as example)...and would be even more impossible to stop using them all together, however, if you are smart about what you do, and when, you can avoid transmitting your info...you still need active connection, so if you don't leave your internet on 24/7 then you might have a chance. Leave it on all day long, even with the best firewalls...you still come up short.
Call it infighting, call it spending your time making sure you save your own ass, call it afraid to change with the times, when you hire new blood and don't back their ideas....I am sure there is plenty of creative people at M$, they just get held back or kept down a lot, because the bureaucracy over there is what is the most important, contrary to a place like Google, where they really push for you to come up with great new ideas, even if you don't have a engineering degree, they will listen and even ponder on your ideas.
I think if M$ had someone else running the show, they could really surpass Google,
to become top dog again, but not with the present project plan, or people in charge.
What a f*cken moron that guy is, really ...whining about not having to spend so much money to print on paper and cause pollution world wide, he should be shot. Poor buddy can't afford another rolls, so let's complain instead of making proper decision making and cutting budget in places where
it would benefit his company (his large yearly bonus for example)
Another reason...why not to use IE, ....EVER!
So when a patient now knows in his incoherent state that he is actually in a coma,
and can communicate with others, then does that mean he can still be held at his word....
Salesman>I thought you said we had a deal
Vegetable>.....yes
Salesman>So we did have a deal, or you admit to not keeping the deal
Vegetable>.....no
Salesman>Stop playing with me, I might have to hurt you....
Vegetable>.....
All this to say in a few rods, do not click on any link from google ads or link pages....always use the proper url.
We could have a chair in Antarctica, with a brain attachment, where we could simply use our brain waves to activate and operate
under possible invasion from a distant alien life form???