...people who are cheap enough to buy pirated software at flea markets put a low enough value on their time to download the stuff themselves in order to avoid even the minimal cost of pirated discs.
Could you clarify what you mean by this? P2P seems like it would take less time, and therefore be a better use of time, than going out to purchase a physical pirated copy. It's not as if the person has to pedle a bicycle to keep bittorrent or limewire running. They click a link and walk away until it's done. The computer is working, not the person.
Unless you are using FAT you should not be defragging your filesystem at all. NTFS is pretty efficient about how it stores files on the hard drive. Modern filesystems do a pretty good job at storing files and preventing fragmenting. They spread the files out over the hard drive and leave space between so they can easily be expanded. Once you defrag and compact all your data to the beginning of your drive, the filesystem will have to write data elsewhere if you expand a file. You'll suddenly find yourself needing to defrag often just to maintain the efficiency that you would have had had you let the filesystem do its job in the first place.
The only reason that Microsoft wants this to be a standard is to get past the proposed laws that specify that government documents use an open standard. That's why these proposed laws, like the one recently introduced in California, need to specify that the standard must have an open-source reference implementation.
Based on my experience, Firefox often becomes unstable when too many extensions are included.
I've found that it depends on what extensions you use. Some extensions are poorly written. I have 29 extensions installed in my daily Firefox profile and have no problems with speed or stability. I created separate Firefox profiles for other purposes and installed different extensions in those profiles:
default - set to run by default and has my daily surfing setup and bookmarks
school - I have a different set of tools for school-related web surfing. Different bookmarks, extension configuration, etc.
webdev - has bookmarks to programming reference sites and manuals. Has Firebug, Web Developer, CSSViewer extensions installed, etc.
test - a test profile. If I'm curious about an extension, or not sure if it's going to play nice or uninstall itself properly, I can try it out in this stock profile.
I have separate icons for Firefox on my toolbar. I change the command for the icon to launch the appropriate profile. For example, when doing web development the webdev icon runs: firefox -p webdev
"Hey, Slashdot, I don't know how to do my job.. please help me. I could PROBABLY google around for 30-40 seconds and find a solution, and earning my paycheck by doing so.. but I figure I'll waste everyone's time."
"Hey Slashdot, I'm good at my job but I don't know everything.. please help me. I've already googled around for at least an hour to see what solutions exist. Being a social and intelligent human being who doesn't live in a vacuum, I'd love to have a conversation with other administrators about what solutions they have found valuable. I'm hoping that I can learn something those who have already investigated these solutions. I want to learn from your experience and leave a public record on Slashdot for other people who might have the same need in the future."
If you're having so many problems with your computers that you have to speak to your rep once a week, you might want to reconsider your hardware vendor.
When I was trying the Vista RC, it told me that my drive was close to failing.... About the only feature that impressed me in Vista, sadly.
Be sad no more. SmartMonTools will run in UNIX or Windows and notify you if it detects SMART errors. For the Windows installer look for the phrase "Install the Windows package" on the smartmontools home page..
I didn't realise this was blowing the whistle; I thought it was part of any good IT department employees job. That is to ensure all passwords, more so management passwords, are as secure as possible.
He wasn't an employee of Intel. He was a contractor hired to do a specific job which wasn't checking for password security.
$3 per movie and I still have to use my outbound bandwidth? I can rent movies from the local rental shop for cheaper than that and still have the option to watch them on the living room DVD player. Between 50 and 75 cents seems like a more reasonable price point, particularly if I'm helping to cover their distribution costs.
You are indeed missing something. I'm guessing you never went to college?
I went to college but it was a long time ago. We called those people stoners or pot heads back then. I never hung out with those people so I don't know the lingo.
I've found that it works better for me to get rid of the left bar. It's just eating up space anyway. You can do the same thing by putting the following in your userContent.css file:
/* Remove the left column */ #links {
display: none !important; } #contents {
margin-left: 0px !important; }
Now I never have to worry about "Opinion Centers".
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Here's a working link to the article: http://weblog.infoworld.com/geeks/archives/2007/02 /beef_up_your_wi.html
The only reason that Microsoft wants this to be a standard is to get past the proposed laws that specify that government documents use an open standard. That's why these proposed laws, like the one recently introduced in California, need to specify that the standard must have an open-source reference implementation.
I have separate icons for Firefox on my toolbar. I change the command for the icon to launch the appropriate profile. For example, when doing web development the webdev icon runs: firefox -p webdev
"Hey Slashdot, I'm good at my job but I don't know everything.. please help me. I've already googled around for at least an hour to see what solutions exist. Being a social and intelligent human being who doesn't live in a vacuum, I'd love to have a conversation with other administrators about what solutions they have found valuable. I'm hoping that I can learn something those who have already investigated these solutions. I want to learn from your experience and leave a public record on Slashdot for other people who might have the same need in the future."
Those stuffed toys are suspiciously clean.
$3 per movie and I still have to use my outbound bandwidth? I can rent movies from the local rental shop for cheaper than that and still have the option to watch them on the living room DVD player. Between 50 and 75 cents seems like a more reasonable price point, particularly if I'm helping to cover their distribution costs.
There is but I don't know what the filename is or where it should be stored. Try googling for "opera user stylesheet" and see if that helps.
Anyone want to explain why the parent is +5 funny? I guess I'm missing something.
Apple's making a version of the Cobalt Raq? Awesome. I can't wait to get my own iRaq!