The ITAA will be telling us that we're all too stupid to vote and can't make our own decisions. We'll need special representatives to vote for us, because we're too dumb to know what's good for us. Wouldn't that suck.........
Send all your money to me. Then you don't have any money to buy things, and you won't need a PO system.
On a serious note...
I just set up a PO system using M$ Excel. Excel has a smaple template that's easily modified into a PO tracking system (it even has some kind of database built in)
It'd take a few days of hacking, but you could probably get the template to work in your favorite Open Source spreadsheet application.
If nothing else, you could easily hack together a PHP/mySQL application.
This method has worked pretty well in the past. In the last couple days, I've gotten infected by some browser hijackers and no amount of cleaning and resetting things will delete the %$#@$$#%ers. Is there a better method?
It means somebody has more time on their hands than I do. Yes, this is probably a useless hack, but I'll restate my theory on why modding consoles is a Good Thing(tm).
Rumor has it that the Xbox2 is in the works. Once the Xbox2 ships, the price of the Xbox will drop dramatically. At some point, you'll probably be able to pick up a used Xbox in a pawn shop for $50. $50 makes a nice price for a second computer like an internet terminal for the kitchen or some other similar appliance. So, some will say it's a waste of time to hack then and mod them in this manner, but once they're dirt cheap in pawn shops and Ebay, you'll thank the modders.
Someone should sue these morons for slander and liable
I could point out the irony of your statement, but I digress.
Before you go around suing people, I need to ask you some questions. What is the model number of your friends' Gateway PC? My office is a huge Gateway customer. I have installed multiple distros (including SuSE 9.1) on the E-4100 and E-2100 desktops. I've also installed linux on several of their laptops, including the M275 running SuSE that I'm typing this on. I've had some interesting problems, mostly because certain kernels dislike some hardware (for instance, FC2s installer kernel panics on this M275). I'd hardly call this laptop incompatible, it just happens that FC2s kernel and this laptop dislike each other.
If you haven't done so already, take a tool like Darik's boot and nuke and wipe the entire disk clean before installing (a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda accomplishes the same thing). I've noticed that on some Gateways the boot record refuses to die, and this is the only way to get rid of the NT boot loader. Occasionally XP won't install for the same reason.
Has your idiot friend called Gateway tech support? Gateway does dabble in linux, and might be able to offer some explanation as to why you're having issues. Gateway is in bed with M$, as most vendors are, but they haven't done anything to make me believe that they're anti-linux.
Make sure you're not inserting it upside down. It's really hard to insert a USB connector upside down, but the determined person can do it. I had a laptop with a broken USB connector that allowed USB devices to be plugged in both ways, and plugging it in upside down killed the power.
I call them USB flash drives. It's universal enough that just about everyone knows what you're talking about. Jump drives, thumb drives, pen drives, etc are all TMs, and since there is no clear leader in the USB flash drive market you can't universalize it just yet.
I like the Sandisk cruzer mini. It's small, has a lanyard, and 3 multicolor caps. The only problem I've had with it is when I pulled it out while data was being written to it and I had to reformat it. If the light is blinking, don't pull it out!:-) If I could post a picture of mine, I would. It looks like it's been through a war, and it works flawlessly. Oh, and did I mention they're the cheapest ones out there?
Sony Microvaults are complete crap, and Sony finally stopped making them. Lexar Jump drives are rumored to be poorly made, but I have no personal knowledge. Simpletech Bonzais work well, but they have a really ugly shape and size. Our users don't seem to care for them, even though they are reliable.
As the drives are getting more popular, they're becoming cheaper. Hopefully the manufacturers don't sacrifice quality to compensate.
Not to mention, they'll probably be posted on/. shortly after the premuim customers receive the info. Who needs to pay for stuff when/. gives it to me for free?
As you said it doesn't make a lot of sense to write a VM for the RCX, given the limited space and horsepower. I suppose it gives cross platform testing capability, but even so a language like NQC seems more effective. At any rate, it's still a cool hack.
Swiss army knives are handy around the home and office just as much as the outdoors. I carry one with me and use it many times a day for odd things. Adding USB memory to it just adds to its usefulness.
What would really be handy is if they started making Leathermans with USB drives.
Gateway is already on its 5th generation of such a product. The Profile is very similar in description, but has been out for quite a few years. I find it hard to believe tht Apple would try to imitate an existing product, Steve Jobs seem more innovative than that when it comes to packaging hardware.
Why does Slashdot insist on posting every single Mac rumor? 99% of these things are bogus, and are usually debunked within 10 replies. It's not news, it's just crap.
I remember working on a web version of Wordperfect 10. It was using a tool like Citrix or Webex to deliver the applicaion over the internet from Corel to your desktop. Pretty neat way to try out software IMHO.
I see now that they've dropped in in favor of a stripped down demo download. I'm curious to know why they took it down, as it might be a good reason for Microsoft NOT to run Office as a web service.
Anyone remember this? Anyone know why it went away?
I like my Nokia 6010. It's got some features like WAP, IM, and games but it's primarily a PHONE. It doesn't organize my life, it doesn't take pictures, I use to make PHONE CALLS on. Good coverage (full scale anywhere I've been inside T-mobile's coverage area) and long battery life (I forget to charge it, because every time I look it's still on full battery). I got it free with new T-mobile service, and I'm happy with it.
It's also got a SIM card, for transferring your phone book and whatnot.
Have you seen/heard anything about WUS? WUS adds a lot of neat features and patch download scheduling is one of them.
Btw, a senior product manager at Microsoft publicly stated that the name "WUS" is the dumbest possible name they could have come up with. The product is actually pretty cool, the name is horrible.
It really sucks, but I've concluded that Windows, in many cases, needs to be run as administrator. Why? REALLY BAD CODING PRACTICES.
I've found so many applications that lose functionality when run as a user (even power user) that I'm questioning the usefulness of unpriveleged users on a Windows machine. For instance, Microsoft Greetings. No, I'm serious. This application errors out if it runs as anything less than Administrator. Microsoft's OWN PRODUCTS have issues in a secure environment!
Yes, it's good practice to run your machine as the lowest possible user, but when even Microsoft can't write applications to work properly in such an environemnt, you really don't have a lot of options. Aplications like Wordperfect and AutoCAD keep users from running in a safe environment. From what I've seen, we have a long way to go before WIndows apps are written well enough to work in a locked down environment.
According to Novell, there was a recent test of non computer users and various UIs (Windoze, Linux, MacOS, I think a couple others). What they learned was A) non users found the Linux UI to be the easiest to use but B) ALL UIs really, REALLY suck.
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Wow.. even Linux has seen the light. Now if we could just get those *BSD users onto this...
Most drives, when unplugged improperly, will lose data. Usually it's just data loss, and like you say, file recovery utilities have no trouble getting it back.
What I'm referring to is that the drive physically ceases to function as a drive. You can't mount it, you can't dd it, you can't do anything to it. Data recovery? I wish.. tell me how to recover data off a drive that the PC can't even see.
Even when the drive is dismounted properly, it stills corrupts itself on occasion. Out of 30 drives we bought, 20 of them are now completely dead. Explain to me why 20 out of 30 Sony drives fail, when in the same users hands drives from other manufacturers work flawlessly.
I know I'm not alone, I've found several well written usenet articles on this problem, along with some difficult fix procedures that sometimes work. Sony obviously has a defective product, but they refuse to own up to it.
Our company purchased a nice supply of Sony Microvault USB keychain drives. For whatever reason, these drives just stop working. If you unplug a drive without properly dismounting it, it will fail to be recognized under any OS as a drive. Windows reports it as a "security device". There is no way to recover the data, the drive is shot. Further testing showed that even if you dismount it properly, there's a good chance of corrupting the drive.
Call up Sony tech support, you'll get bounced around to several support numbers (some long distance, some toll free). Most of the time you get directed back to the number you previously dialed, and your issue is never resolved.
This is a documented problem, and on the occasion that you're able to get the correct tech support staff Sony will refuse to fix it. There is a lengthy process to fix the drive, but it's a pain and your data is unrecoverable. Sony has since stopped making the Microvaults, but it's a good example of how bad their support really is.
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According to your theory, Duke Nukem Forever will be the best game ever released.
The ITAA will be telling us that we're all too stupid to vote and can't make our own decisions. We'll need special representatives to vote for us, because we're too dumb to know what's good for us. Wouldn't that suck.........
Send all your money to me. Then you don't have any money to buy things, and you won't need a PO system.
On a serious note...
I just set up a PO system using M$ Excel. Excel has a smaple template that's easily modified into a PO tracking system (it even has some kind of database built in)
It'd take a few days of hacking, but you could probably get the template to work in your favorite Open Source spreadsheet application.
If nothing else, you could easily hack together a PHP/mySQL application.
Is there a good HOWTO on cleaning up a Windoze box from spyware and keeping it clean? I use the following method:
Install Ad-aware, update, clean, reboot, clean
Install Spybot S&D, update, clean, reboot, clean
Install Spywareblaster, update, enable protection
This method has worked pretty well in the past. In the last couple days, I've gotten infected by some browser hijackers and no amount of cleaning and resetting things will delete the %$#@$$#%ers. Is there a better method?
What does this mean?
It means somebody has more time on their hands than I do. Yes, this is probably a useless hack, but I'll restate my theory on why modding consoles is a Good Thing(tm).
Rumor has it that the Xbox2 is in the works. Once the Xbox2 ships, the price of the Xbox will drop dramatically. At some point, you'll probably be able to pick up a used Xbox in a pawn shop for $50. $50 makes a nice price for a second computer like an internet terminal for the kitchen or some other similar appliance. So, some will say it's a waste of time to hack then and mod them in this manner, but once they're dirt cheap in pawn shops and Ebay, you'll thank the modders.
Someone should sue these morons for slander and liable
I could point out the irony of your statement, but I digress.
Before you go around suing people, I need to ask you some questions. What is the model number of your friends' Gateway PC? My office is a huge Gateway customer. I have installed multiple distros (including SuSE 9.1) on the E-4100 and E-2100 desktops. I've also installed linux on several of their laptops, including the M275 running SuSE that I'm typing this on. I've had some interesting problems, mostly because certain kernels dislike some hardware (for instance, FC2s installer kernel panics on this M275). I'd hardly call this laptop incompatible, it just happens that FC2s kernel and this laptop dislike each other.
If you haven't done so already, take a tool like Darik's boot and nuke and wipe the entire disk clean before installing (a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda accomplishes the same thing). I've noticed that on some Gateways the boot record refuses to die, and this is the only way to get rid of the NT boot loader. Occasionally XP won't install for the same reason.
Has your idiot friend called Gateway tech support? Gateway does dabble in linux, and might be able to offer some explanation as to why you're having issues. Gateway is in bed with M$, as most vendors are, but they haven't done anything to make me believe that they're anti-linux.
I plug in my thumb drive and my pc powers off.
Make sure you're not inserting it upside down. It's really hard to insert a USB connector upside down, but the determined person can do it. I had a laptop with a broken USB connector that allowed USB devices to be plugged in both ways, and plugging it in upside down killed the power.
I call them USB flash drives. It's universal enough that just about everyone knows what you're talking about. Jump drives, thumb drives, pen drives, etc are all TMs, and since there is no clear leader in the USB flash drive market you can't universalize it just yet.
Which manufacturers?
:-) If I could post a picture of mine, I would. It looks like it's been through a war, and it works flawlessly. Oh, and did I mention they're the cheapest ones out there?
I like the Sandisk cruzer mini. It's small, has a lanyard, and 3 multicolor caps. The only problem I've had with it is when I pulled it out while data was being written to it and I had to reformat it. If the light is blinking, don't pull it out!
Sony Microvaults are complete crap, and Sony finally stopped making them. Lexar Jump drives are rumored to be poorly made, but I have no personal knowledge. Simpletech Bonzais work well, but they have a really ugly shape and size. Our users don't seem to care for them, even though they are reliable.
As the drives are getting more popular, they're becoming cheaper. Hopefully the manufacturers don't sacrifice quality to compensate.
Get'cher red hot MP3s from your friendly local root@localhost
OK, I just sent you a request for some MP3s. Let me know when you recei... oooh! I have mail, gotta run!
Not to mention, they'll probably be posted on /. shortly after the premuim customers receive the info. Who needs to pay for stuff when /. gives it to me for free?
There already is one, it's called NQC (Not Quite C).
As you said it doesn't make a lot of sense to write a VM for the RCX, given the limited space and horsepower. I suppose it gives cross platform testing capability, but even so a language like NQC seems more effective. At any rate, it's still a cool hack.
Swiss army knives are handy around the home and office just as much as the outdoors. I carry one with me and use it many times a day for odd things. Adding USB memory to it just adds to its usefulness.
What would really be handy is if they started making Leathermans with USB drives.
Thinkgeek, OWNED by OSDN if I'm not mistaken, has been selling USB swiss army knives for months now.
/. has happily traded in sanity for advertising dollars?
Is it obvious to anyone else that
Gateway is already on its 5th generation of such a product. The Profile is very similar in description, but has been out for quite a few years. I find it hard to believe tht Apple would try to imitate an existing product, Steve Jobs seem more innovative than that when it comes to packaging hardware.
Why does Slashdot insist on posting every single Mac rumor? 99% of these things are bogus, and are usually debunked within 10 replies. It's not news, it's just crap.
This reminds me of a shirt I saw today:
"Some mornings I wake up GRUMPY. Other mornings I just let her sleep."
I remember working on a web version of Wordperfect 10. It was using a tool like Citrix or Webex to deliver the applicaion over the internet from Corel to your desktop. Pretty neat way to try out software IMHO.
I see now that they've dropped in in favor of a stripped down demo download. I'm curious to know why they took it down, as it might be a good reason for Microsoft NOT to run Office as a web service.
Anyone remember this? Anyone know why it went away?
I like my Nokia 6010. It's got some features like WAP, IM, and games but it's primarily a PHONE. It doesn't organize my life, it doesn't take pictures, I use to make PHONE CALLS on. Good coverage (full scale anywhere I've been inside T-mobile's coverage area) and long battery life (I forget to charge it, because every time I look it's still on full battery). I got it free with new T-mobile service, and I'm happy with it.
It's also got a SIM card, for transferring your phone book and whatnot.
Have you seen/heard anything about WUS? WUS adds a lot of neat features and patch download scheduling is one of them.
Btw, a senior product manager at Microsoft publicly stated that the name "WUS" is the dumbest possible name they could have come up with. The product is actually pretty cool, the name is horrible.
It really sucks, but I've concluded that Windows, in many cases, needs to be run as administrator. Why? REALLY BAD CODING PRACTICES.
I've found so many applications that lose functionality when run as a user (even power user) that I'm questioning the usefulness of unpriveleged users on a Windows machine. For instance, Microsoft Greetings. No, I'm serious. This application errors out if it runs as anything less than Administrator. Microsoft's OWN PRODUCTS have issues in a secure environment!
Yes, it's good practice to run your machine as the lowest possible user, but when even Microsoft can't write applications to work properly in such an environemnt, you really don't have a lot of options. Aplications like Wordperfect and AutoCAD keep users from running in a safe environment. From what I've seen, we have a long way to go before WIndows apps are written well enough to work in a locked down environment.
When asked to comment on the purchase, Craig's only comment was "Fast Payment Welcome to Bid Anytime A+++++".
According to Novell, there was a recent test of non computer users and various UIs (Windoze, Linux, MacOS, I think a couple others). What they learned was A) non users found the Linux UI to be the easiest to use but B) ALL UIs really, REALLY suck.
Wow.. even Linux has seen the light. Now if we could just get those *BSD users onto this...
Most drives, when unplugged improperly, will lose data. Usually it's just data loss, and like you say, file recovery utilities have no trouble getting it back.
What I'm referring to is that the drive physically ceases to function as a drive. You can't mount it, you can't dd it, you can't do anything to it. Data recovery? I wish.. tell me how to recover data off a drive that the PC can't even see.
Even when the drive is dismounted properly, it stills corrupts itself on occasion. Out of 30 drives we bought, 20 of them are now completely dead. Explain to me why 20 out of 30 Sony drives fail, when in the same users hands drives from other manufacturers work flawlessly.
I know I'm not alone, I've found several well written usenet articles on this problem, along with some difficult fix procedures that sometimes work. Sony obviously has a defective product, but they refuse to own up to it.
Our company purchased a nice supply of Sony Microvault USB keychain drives. For whatever reason, these drives just stop working. If you unplug a drive without properly dismounting it, it will fail to be recognized under any OS as a drive. Windows reports it as a "security device". There is no way to recover the data, the drive is shot. Further testing showed that even if you dismount it properly, there's a good chance of corrupting the drive.
Call up Sony tech support, you'll get bounced around to several support numbers (some long distance, some toll free). Most of the time you get directed back to the number you previously dialed, and your issue is never resolved.
This is a documented problem, and on the occasion that you're able to get the correct tech support staff Sony will refuse to fix it. There is a lengthy process to fix the drive, but it's a pain and your data is unrecoverable. Sony has since stopped making the Microvaults, but it's a good example of how bad their support really is.