rdiff is one of a number of programs (cvs could also work for you) rdiff only copies over the changes and keeps logs of the changes, so roll-backs are possible for data recovery.
No, it was the fault of the refinishers. There was stuff slopped up on the walls (including the fabric walls of cubicles) and the server room was not to be touched. Part of it was done (and you could clearly see stroke patterns of a mop). In fact, they left 2/3 the floor in the server room untouched.
No joke. A couple years ago the office floors were contracted to be refinished. I had new PC boxes get waxed to the floor with some loose documentation that had fallen off a desk. Not only did they botch up the offices, but security let them into the datacenter and they waxed over the anti-static floor tiles that 'looked dull'.
I did a quick google on it. You are off a bit. The original writings were in Aramaic, not Hebrew. Nero was already dead when that text was written. (and I did also read of 'mark of the beast' being the image of Nero on coins....but WTF does that have to do with 'back of hand' or 'forehead').
I also found references to a 606. Maybe my NewBalance shoes is what is being refered to?
There is just SO MUCH info out there (and 98% of it is bullshit) it is hard to sift through. You could spend years of your life digging through this and still come to no firm conclusion.
In the end, it is solely a MATTER of FAITH. How much do you believe in the research of XXX or ZZZ when you do not have the original works in your possession or the knowledge of the dead Aramaic language to translate.
Like evolution, this is not just about science; every step cannot be verified or proved. Most is left to trust (aka faith).
(ok, just to pre-empt the BS lines from carbon dating...I was a nat-sci undergrad and know damn well that C-13 levels decaying to C-12 rely upon the HUGE ASSUMPTION that current present levels of C13/C12 were at the same levels of today. IMPOSSIBLE to know. And forget geological dating. It is for reference points and cannot be used to prove or disprove carbon dating..)
Implants aren't anything new. This is just a documented case of RFID and forced human adoption.
I started to track some of this a few years ago.
I lost a lot of the paper articles, but maintained a bunch of html links (many became dead links for one reason or another).
We have been monitored a long time and for many different reasons.
The public is mostly ignorant, AS THEY SHOULD BE. Could someone explain to me why we would want everyone to know that our governments have monitoring in place? It isn't something that could ever openly be acknowledged. Kind of like not letting Germans know that enigma was broken during WWII (good thing we got ahold of one of the machines)
I am not much of a Conspiracy Theorist (at least now anyway). I realize that it is necessary for a global society in the state that we are in to monitor and track. There is extreme good that can come of it, and extreme evil.
But I digress. I don't think that this instance is a notable trend towards NWO.
I am MORE CONCERNED about the recent mass hiring of IT by the FBI to help develop the centralized database tracking system as part of the new national ID program. Ok, NOW you can be worried.
uh, dude. This is slashdot. Average bicep here is only 6" in circumference. I am assuming minimal bicep could be removed to get to the bone, let alone RFID chip.
As a side effect, leave the RFID implant as a cosmetic augmentation. Hey, can they implant these in 'other' regions?
well said. We are all inherently evil and can only work away from that position.
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged... Why do you look at the spec of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye... First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." (Matthew 7:1-5)
It's easy to justify intervention when we throw around terms like "human rights abuses." But, objectively, "human rights" are just something that we've decided we value enough to warrant intervention. A thousand years ago, it was easy to honestly believe that people who weren't Catholic were condemned to eternal punishment. This led to a lot of excuses for things we now view as atrocities, but conceptually, it's exactly the same thing as what we're doing now.
The argument "yeah, but this time we're right, honest" just doesn't hold water.
I am not part of 'we'. I wasn't alive during the Inquisition or even WWII. But I can tell you (without hindsight) that torture into submission is NEVER the right answer. [side note: history channel had a nice special on torture devices through the centuries]
I would not have been the hypocritical fuktard that pounded spikes into the anus of a sodomizing homosexual. Not everyone thought that was OK to do. Not every Jew cheered when Jesus was on the cross.
Today, slavery continues to thrive as women and girls are sold into sexual slavery. In China, associates of Christians are beaten and jailed for their beliefs.
It isn't 'this time we got it right', but I damn-sure know the fundamental difference between right and wrong. You might see gray area all over the place and feel lukewarm about social 'rights' and the 'let's just let the other countries take care of themselves'.
I believe that people anywhere should be able to dictate their own future. If they want to be communist, let them decide. If they want to be gay, let them be gay. But when they are not even given the option to voice their opinion or peaceably protest, there is something terribly wrong.
Who is going to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves?
"it harmed some of them, but that is how the market is supposed to work" "MS' illegal practices were not obviously illegal at the time "
Cute. This isn't about hindsight and now having some sort of epiphany. They are ALWAYS looking to crush the competition and not everyone is oblivious to this.
Right NOW Microsoft continues to buy up Antivirus companies (and divisions of Antivirus companies) that have Unix/Linux offerings. After purchase, these product lines are absolutely shut down.
How is this in the pursuit of their own happiness, well being or building of the company. It is NOT. It is brutal attack on competitors. It also is not legal now. Wasn't legal in the past and won't be in the future.
I have read through court documents as far back as the old Caldera case (which most of those documents were shredded). The antics by MS were in no way deemed 'fair practice' at the time they were inflicted or by looking hindsight.
Let's not forget the incarnation of QDOS, how it was knowingly stolen and then rebadged as MS-DOS. Oh, hey. That was legal, right?
As I have to tell a friend of mine (who is in a key position that less than 12 people hold at MS) that he needs to stop being a Microsoft Apologist. There are some good people there. But the top-down directive is that of a ruthless corporation.
cloning is referring to the SID of the phone. You take the System ID of one phone (akin to a MAC address on a nic) and then reprogram your phone to have this SID. That essentially makes your phone, their phone.
Was much more popular when all networks were Analog (as it was trivial to capture traffic). Never a problem in my area, but when I would go through Chicago or any major city it certainly was.
Digital is not perfect, but even without using encryption it is much harder to crack than analog service.
But you can also get SIDs without snooping for them (but if you 'travelled to a foreign land and then mysteriously used..') it points to using unsafe towers or one whose tower operators had monitoring mode on. You can then program your phone through softcodes using the keypad or alternatively program a bunch of SIM cards and then those are deployed.
One thing to do to secure yourself against that is to make sure your tri-mode phone doesn't fall back to analog if that is all that is available. And don't leave your phone unattended.
Forbes article was way off. At no point in time did any toy (in the past 30 years) sweep a decade at a time. Especially in the past 10 years we have had a notable, unmistakable 'must-have' toy of the year.
Razors were a MINOR fad.
Whereas I remember Tickle-me-Elmos causing toy store brawls and going for hundreds of dollars on eBay. No one paid $500 for a razor on eBay. They did for Elmos (which more of these were made than razors) and that tells me where the demand was.
MicroRC cars were also really popular from small kids to adults a couple of years ago.
The Forbes article was a pain to navigate through and really lacked any viable research. Maybe even just getting some figures from Toys R Us on what their top sellers would have been a better gauge over the past 20 years.
Seriously, if you really think the 'average american' gave a damn about their rights, then why doesn't the Libertarian party get more recognition?
Why don't more people actually research candidates before voting instead of bitching after an election?
Lots of people like to point fingers, but I would rather they just shut their mouths. There are plenty of ways to actively work towards greater freedom (or towards more government control, welfare, or whatever you wish).
As a Representative Republic, elected leaders should do what is BEST in the interest of citizens regardless of what they are griping about with their shallow common knowledge. (this has no direct relation to 'freedoms' or being big brother).
I don't believe in gun control (let's see, compare the crime rates in Illinois..where guns are highly feered vs Kentucky with an open firearms policy). Armed citizens thwart criminals. Criminals will ALWAYS have guns regardless of any laws (duh..they are criminals).
On the other side, there are a few instances of when it isn't in the public's best interest to know what it takes to keep our country secure. Joe Public cannot handle the reality. Good example: most Americans don't want to visit slaughter houses to know what gets put into their hotdogs. They just want to eat them without being bothered with the details.
So on that note, most people never wanted to be bothered with the fact that the Echelon network has been inplace for longer than porn sites. Carnivore (FBI system) has been around for awhile too.
Why do you think 128bit export encryption was banned for so long? Do you _really_ think that they are getting lax? How about the fact that technology exists to circumvent it? (oh, you thought the best cryptographers and graduates from Cornell, Harvard, Berkeley work at some company like Symantec or Microsoft???)
oh, and throw out the tinfoil hat. Tempest technologies suggest a hat made of thick Pb. And they are more stylish.
I haven't repaired many LCD's (only about 20 in the past year), but have already found some common trends.
HP Pavilions- the inverters usually go out on these (CCFL still good). Almost always it's the coils. (while some inverters from other manufacturers use piezos, most are enameled copper coils). I _think_ this might be do to using the same inverter for 15" panels that they were using for 14" panels. I have replaced the inverter on laptops less than a year old (I don't know why they paid me to fix it and not warranty).
Toshiba Satellites- I have seen on several occasions where the inverter has come unplugged or was a lose connection (I remember a couple of 8100's but I don't remember the other models). Just unplug and plug back in.
The rest are the CCFL's. Remember that there are only a handful of LCD panel makers out there (Samsung, LG (aka goldstar), Hitachi, NEC, Sharp, etc). So you aren't specifically looking for a Dell4150 backlight, but for the LCD you are working with. (take it apart and check).
Don't assume you can just throw a CCFL that is the same length (typically about 310mm). There are CCFL's that are 2.5mm, 3.0mm, etc. Heck, I have had some that were thin enough, but were 1mm too long.
Also take heed when looking to replace a CCFL. Some panels have the reflector up under the layers and you actually delaminate the panel upon disassembly. Not pretty and you can ruin the LC.
I have had twice (2 years ago) where I was all finished. Everything worked. Go to snap in the plastic trim bezel and SNAP! A crack shot up through the panel. Ouch. I had to eat the cost of the new panels.
I have heard from customers that Sony wanted $700 to replace the panel in the 17" Vaio (sp?) and HP wanted over $400 to replace the backlight in their notebook.
So, it's a gamble. But evenso, if you screw up, go find a good new panel on eBay for $250 (for a typical 15").
For inverters, stock up on coils and swap them yourself (for similar coil). Otherwise, these can be had for $14-$65 depending on model.
FWIW: In the end, it usually takes me 15 minutes and an average of $35 to repair a fault LCD.
He isn't kicking out patents of the [blatantly] obvious. Actually, he works for IBM. Most of the patents are for processor architecture and signalling. (like SMP control, bus signalling, caching, etc etc).
No..MAME doesn't have only 3 games. (and I am not talking about the 1,600+ illegal ROM images for MAME out there).
Mostly it is the home brew stuff**. Yeah, I know it does not rivel the latest consoles..but the number of available games WASN'T the point of the post I directly responded to. The point is that there ARE opensource alternatives. If quantity of games counts, then that means that SNES or PS1 are the best consoles on the market.
**(Homebrew admittedly are often times rehashes of other games---but then again, Ms PacMan was an illegal hack of PacMan by GCC programmers that then ended up getting signed over to Namco).
MAME is open, and there _are_ opensauce and free games (like some that were built to load into ROMs or through MAME emu, SNES emulators, 2600 emu, etc).;)
1. Fund some obscure research department 2. Have them teach mice to sing. 3. Publish results to world, touting the musical abilities of mice. 4. Make micro-nano iPods to affix to the mice. 5. PROFIT!!!
It doesn't matter if there were 30x more bugs in Mozilla (there are NOT, btw). What matters is that not ONE OF THEM will take over your whole machine. IE is _not_ a web browser. IT NEVER HAS BEEN ONE. Internet Explorer is a _shell_extension_. There is a MAJOR difference.
A flaw in IE, is a key to dropping into the system and escalating priviledges. Case-in-point: Just Friday I was in a large hospital, waiting in the surgical waiting room. They had 3 new PC's there for patron use.
The PC's were running WindowsXP SP2 and the latest IE with all the patches. The machines were "locked down" with profiles and custom IE configs (so no file menu, no desktop, no start button folders, etc etc.).
There was only an IE icon to click on. (there also was no agreement to click through or 'terms of use') Well, I didn't have one of my laptops with me. Or one of the USB thumb drives I keep in my consulting bag (puppy linux), or Knoppix cd, or ANYTHING. I am sitting at a PC and have absolutely no tools with me to get work done (namely, I wanted an SSH shell into one of my servers so I could at minimum proxy through Putty to my own server to use Squid).
Ok, I can't download anything through IE. Right-clicking is also disabled, etc etc. I take it on as a challenge to get this machine in a useful state.
It took about 10 minutes to discover a flaw in IE (mind you, not a posted one--or one I have ever heard of on BugTraq or FD***). That allowed my to actually bring up an explorer type interface to peruse the file system. I also was able to get on the network to map network printers and access resources. I was able to bypass security to write to the filesystem through an old Win95 dialog trick. I thought "gee, here I am just toying around and I completely evaded what was intended on this box".
Now, I in NO WAY loaded any new code or installed 'viruses' on the PC. I am certain, though, that the administration did not realize the PC's were that 'open'. Had they used Firefox, I would not have been as successful.
Bottom line, IE is a SECURITY RISK regardless of 'patching'
***Ok, Matt. I know you are reading this. I will drop you an email to give you heads up (and fair start;) )
On a quick side-note regarding cartidge costs: I have been refilling inkjet cartridges for about 7 years and this HP did not want to be refilled.
After topping off the yellow, the printer failed to acknowledge the color cartridge being installed at all (through the software or the LCD screen ). When printing from it, it would print the Magenta and Cyan, but refused to print yellow.
HP as well as xerox are going to great efforts to ensure that you purchase new supplies and only purchase those supplies from them (hence Dell's entry into the printer market as well).
Yes, I agree the printer is a bit much. The justification in laying out the cash was to do all brochure printing in-house.
Paper comes from a couple of different paper vendors, but if you _have_ to use OfficeMax or Staples, then be sure to first setup a corporate account. (OfficeMax purchased DeBois and so our account transferred). From any of those stores, I never pay the asking price (ie the price on the shelf) on cartridges/paper/whatever. (If you do any kind of volume pricing, you get a rep and they really take care of you).
This is actually my first run on the 2600 with the 'high capacity' cartridges, so I will have to benchmark how effective it is. The last color cartridge went through over 200 sheets of photo paper and I don't know how much everyday printing.
While some might think, 'well, Microsoft was just ONE of the contributors..'
That reminds me of Forrest Gump. "There's all kinds of shrimp...there's Pineapple Shrimp...Fried Shrimp...coconut shrimp...dead shrimp.....cajun shrimp...."
Ohhh that is quite the selection. Sounds like a variety, but its all SHRIMP.
Go back a couple of years and look at what Staples did with 'Microsoft approved only software' being sold through the stores. Each of the companies listed gets concessions in one way or another from Microsoft (in a MAJOR way). I am just surprised that Best Buy wasn't listed.
Not to burst your bubble, but maybe you just don't know where to shop. Do you honestly purchase paper at almost 66 cents per sheet? Even for 8.5x11, that is retail ripoff.
I buy photo paper (in the convenient 4x6 size) for $13 per 100 sheets. I have almost 1,000 sheets on hand right now just in that size.
Let's clearup some misinformation: You CANNOT use a consumer laser printer with 'photopaper'. The coating sticks to the fuser assembly. Very messy and mindless. 'PhotoPaper' that you purchase at the store is for Inkjets only (they are NOT called 'bubblejets'---that is a Canon term for a specific printer they market).
For photo printing on a laser, I use an Aficio 6513 here in the office. Sure, it cost over $27,000 but 80lb glossy paper turns out images like magazine ads (the shiny surface comes from an additional layer of silicon oil applied after fusing). Lasers do NOT use ink. They use 'toner'. Toner on a 6513 costs 6cents per page. You don't buy cartridges, they are in a maintenance contract.
Anyway, for my PSC2600 Photosmart, the cartridges are $35 for high capacity color and $30 for photo cartridge (with free delivery to my door). Prints are indistinguishable from the lab (or the B&W ones I develop myself from the Pentax K1000 I still have around). These prints should last for at least 50 years using quality pigment inks (not dye ink).
As far a price-per-sheet, I figured it out once to be on par with taking them to Wally world. I would rather digitally retouch my photos before printing, so it just works FOR ME.
Whatever works for you, that's fine. Just wanted to clearup some mis info in previous post.
Response header on their webserver reports: Apache/2.0.48 (Fedora)
Guess we know how REALLY smart their IT 'guru' really is, when he doesn't even know the platforms they rely on. All the while, shooting off at the mouth of how Microsoft saved the day for him. (oh and by 'saving the day' I mean that his Microsoft VAR greased the hole first)
How about just also using Fedora for SAP, okay? (or if compatibility issues, then whitebox linux)
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rdiff is one of a number of programs (cvs could also work for you) rdiff only copies over the changes and keeps logs of the changes, so roll-backs are possible for data recovery.
No, it was the fault of the refinishers.
There was stuff slopped up on the walls (including the fabric walls of cubicles) and the server room was not to be touched.
Part of it was done (and you could clearly see stroke patterns of a mop).
In fact, they left 2/3 the floor in the server room untouched.
No joke.
A couple years ago the office floors were contracted to be refinished.
I had new PC boxes get waxed to the floor with some loose documentation that had fallen off a desk.
Not only did they botch up the offices, but security let them into the datacenter and they waxed over the anti-static floor tiles that 'looked dull'.
I did a quick google on it.
You are off a bit.
The original writings were in Aramaic, not Hebrew.
Nero was already dead when that text was written.
(and I did also read of 'mark of the beast' being the image of Nero on coins....but WTF does that have to do with 'back of hand' or 'forehead').
I also found references to a 606. Maybe my NewBalance shoes is what is being refered to?
There is just SO MUCH info out there (and 98% of it is bullshit) it is hard to sift through. You could spend years of your life digging through this and still come to no firm conclusion.
In the end, it is solely a MATTER of FAITH. How much do you believe in the research of XXX or ZZZ when you do not have the original works in your possession or the knowledge of the dead Aramaic language to translate.
Like evolution, this is not just about science; every step cannot be verified or proved. Most is left to trust (aka faith).
(ok, just to pre-empt the BS lines from carbon dating...I was a nat-sci undergrad and know damn well that C-13 levels decaying to C-12 rely upon the HUGE ASSUMPTION that current present levels of C13/C12 were at the same levels of today. IMPOSSIBLE to know. And forget geological dating. It is for reference points and cannot be used to prove or disprove carbon dating..)
Link to article with more detail and a pic
I started to track some of this a few years ago. I lost a lot of the paper articles, but maintained a bunch of html links (many became dead links for one reason or another).
We have been monitored a long time and for many different reasons. The public is mostly ignorant, AS THEY SHOULD BE. Could someone explain to me why we would want everyone to know that our governments have monitoring in place? It isn't something that could ever openly be acknowledged. Kind of like not letting Germans know that enigma was broken during WWII (good thing we got ahold of one of the machines)
I am not much of a Conspiracy Theorist (at least now anyway). I realize that it is necessary for a global society in the state that we are in to monitor and track. There is extreme good that can come of it, and extreme evil.
But I digress. I don't think that this instance is a notable trend towards NWO. I am MORE CONCERNED about the recent mass hiring of IT by the FBI to help develop the centralized database tracking system as part of the new national ID program. Ok, NOW you can be worried.
uh, dude.
This is slashdot. Average bicep here is only 6" in circumference.
I am assuming minimal bicep could be removed to get to the bone, let alone RFID chip.
As a side effect, leave the RFID implant as a cosmetic augmentation.
Hey, can they implant these in 'other' regions?
well said. We are all inherently evil and can only work away from that position.
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged... Why do you look at the spec of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye... First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." (Matthew 7:1-5)
The argument "yeah, but this time we're right, honest" just doesn't hold water.
I am not part of 'we'. I wasn't alive during the Inquisition or even WWII. But I can tell you (without hindsight) that torture into submission is NEVER the right answer. [side note: history channel had a nice special on torture devices through the centuries]
I would not have been the hypocritical fuktard that pounded spikes into the anus of a sodomizing homosexual. Not everyone thought that was OK to do. Not every Jew cheered when Jesus was on the cross.
Today, slavery continues to thrive as women and girls are sold into sexual slavery. In China, associates of Christians are beaten and jailed for their beliefs.
It isn't 'this time we got it right', but I damn-sure know the fundamental difference between right and wrong. You might see gray area all over the place and feel lukewarm about social 'rights' and the 'let's just let the other countries take care of themselves'.
I believe that people anywhere should be able to dictate their own future. If they want to be communist, let them decide. If they want to be gay, let them be gay. But when they are not even given the option to voice their opinion or peaceably protest, there is something terribly wrong.
Who is going to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves?
"it harmed some of them, but that is how the market is supposed to work"
"MS' illegal practices were not obviously illegal at the time "
Cute. This isn't about hindsight and now having some sort of epiphany. They are ALWAYS looking to crush the competition and not everyone is oblivious to this.
Right NOW Microsoft continues to buy up Antivirus companies (and divisions of Antivirus companies) that have Unix/Linux offerings. After purchase, these product lines are absolutely shut down.
How is this in the pursuit of their own happiness, well being or building of the company. It is NOT. It is brutal attack on competitors. It also is not legal now. Wasn't legal in the past and won't be in the future.
I have read through court documents as far back as the old Caldera case (which most of those documents were shredded). The antics by MS were in no way deemed 'fair practice' at the time they were inflicted or by looking hindsight.
Let's not forget the incarnation of QDOS, how it was knowingly stolen and then rebadged as MS-DOS. Oh, hey. That was legal, right?
As I have to tell a friend of mine (who is in a key position that less than 12 people hold at MS) that he needs to stop being a Microsoft Apologist. There are some good people there. But the top-down directive is that of a ruthless corporation.
cloning is referring to the SID of the phone.
You take the System ID of one phone (akin to a MAC address on a nic)
and then reprogram your phone to have this SID.
That essentially makes your phone, their phone.
Was much more popular when all networks were Analog (as it was trivial to capture traffic). Never a problem in my area, but when I would go through Chicago or any major city it certainly was.
Digital is not perfect, but even without using encryption it is much harder to crack than analog service.
But you can also get SIDs without snooping for them (but if you 'travelled to a foreign land and then mysteriously used..') it points to using unsafe towers or one whose tower operators had monitoring mode on. You can then program your phone through softcodes using the keypad or alternatively program a bunch of SIM cards and then those are deployed.
One thing to do to secure yourself against that is to make sure your tri-mode phone doesn't fall back to analog if that is all that is available. And don't leave your phone unattended.
Forbes article was way off.
At no point in time did any toy (in the past 30 years) sweep a decade at a time. Especially in the past 10 years we have had a notable, unmistakable 'must-have' toy of the year.
Razors were a MINOR fad.
Whereas I remember Tickle-me-Elmos causing toy store brawls and going for hundreds of dollars on eBay. No one paid $500 for a razor on eBay. They did for Elmos (which more of these were made than razors) and that tells me where the demand was.
MicroRC cars were also really popular from small kids to adults a couple of years ago.
The Forbes article was a pain to navigate through and really lacked any viable research. Maybe even just getting some figures from Toys R Us on what their top sellers would have been a better gauge over the past 20 years.
Seriously, if you really think the 'average american' gave a damn about their rights, then why doesn't the Libertarian party get more recognition?
Why don't more people actually research candidates before voting instead of bitching after an election?
Lots of people like to point fingers, but I would rather they just shut their mouths. There are plenty of ways to actively work towards greater freedom (or towards more government control, welfare, or whatever you wish).
As a Representative Republic, elected leaders should do what is BEST in the interest of citizens regardless of what they are griping about with their shallow common knowledge. (this has no direct relation to 'freedoms' or being big brother).
I don't believe in gun control (let's see, compare the crime rates in Illinois..where guns are highly feered vs Kentucky with an open firearms policy). Armed citizens thwart criminals. Criminals will ALWAYS have guns regardless of any laws (duh..they are criminals).
On the other side, there are a few instances of when it isn't in the public's best interest to know what it takes to keep our country secure. Joe Public cannot handle the reality. Good example: most Americans don't want to visit slaughter houses to know what gets put into their hotdogs. They just want to eat them without being bothered with the details.
So on that note, most people never wanted to be bothered with the fact that the Echelon network has been inplace for longer than porn sites. Carnivore (FBI system) has been around for awhile too.
Why do you think 128bit export encryption was banned for so long?
Do you _really_ think that they are getting lax? How about the fact that technology exists to circumvent it? (oh, you thought the best cryptographers and graduates from Cornell, Harvard, Berkeley work at some company like Symantec or Microsoft???)
oh, and throw out the tinfoil hat. Tempest technologies suggest a hat made of thick Pb. And they are more stylish.
I haven't repaired many LCD's (only about 20 in the past year), but have already found some common trends.
HP Pavilions- the inverters usually go out on these (CCFL still good). Almost always it's the coils. (while some inverters from other manufacturers use piezos, most are enameled copper coils). I _think_ this might be do to using the same inverter for 15" panels that they were using for 14" panels. I have replaced the inverter on laptops less than a year old (I don't know why they paid me to fix it and not warranty).
Toshiba Satellites- I have seen on several occasions where the inverter has come unplugged or was a lose connection (I remember a couple of 8100's but I don't remember the other models). Just unplug and plug back in.
The rest are the CCFL's. Remember that there are only a handful of LCD panel makers out there (Samsung, LG (aka goldstar), Hitachi, NEC, Sharp, etc). So you aren't specifically looking for a Dell4150 backlight, but for the LCD you are working with. (take it apart and check).
Don't assume you can just throw a CCFL that is the same length (typically about 310mm). There are CCFL's that are 2.5mm, 3.0mm, etc. Heck, I have had some that were thin enough, but were 1mm too long.
Also take heed when looking to replace a CCFL. Some panels have the reflector up under the layers and you actually delaminate the panel upon disassembly. Not pretty and you can ruin the LC.
I have had twice (2 years ago) where I was all finished. Everything worked. Go to snap in the plastic trim bezel and SNAP! A crack shot up through the panel. Ouch. I had to eat the cost of the new panels.
I have heard from customers that Sony wanted $700 to replace the panel in the 17" Vaio (sp?) and HP wanted over $400 to replace the backlight in their notebook.
So, it's a gamble. But evenso, if you screw up, go find a good new panel on eBay for $250 (for a typical 15").
For inverters, stock up on coils and swap them yourself (for similar coil). Otherwise, these can be had for $14-$65 depending on model.
FWIW: In the end, it usually takes me 15 minutes and an average of $35 to repair a fault LCD.
He isn't kicking out patents of the [blatantly] obvious.
Actually, he works for IBM. Most of the patents are for processor architecture and signalling. (like SMP control, bus signalling, caching, etc etc).
No..MAME doesn't have only 3 games.
(and I am not talking about the 1,600+ illegal ROM images for MAME out there).
Mostly it is the home brew stuff**. Yeah, I know it does not rivel the latest consoles..but the number of available games WASN'T the point of the post I directly responded to. The point is that there ARE opensource alternatives. If quantity of games counts, then that means that SNES or PS1 are the best consoles on the market.
**(Homebrew admittedly are often times rehashes of other games---but then again, Ms PacMan was an illegal hack of PacMan by GCC programmers that then ended up getting signed over to Namco).
MAME is open, and there _are_ opensauce and free games (like some that were built to load into ROMs or through MAME emu, SNES emulators, 2600 emu, etc). ;)
1. Fund some obscure research department
2. Have them teach mice to sing.
3. Publish results to world, touting the musical abilities of mice.
4. Make micro-nano iPods to affix to the mice.
5. PROFIT!!!
Hey, kid. Upgrade to Token Ring! ;)
We cycle around at 16Mbit!
(yeah, I know you mean fractional T3/DS3)
(oh, and TR runs at 4/16 with HSTR at 100Mbit--just for y'all who call it 'broken ring')
It doesn't matter if there were 30x more bugs in Mozilla (there are NOT, btw). What matters is that not ONE OF THEM will take over your whole machine. IE is _not_ a web browser. IT NEVER HAS BEEN ONE. Internet Explorer is a _shell_extension_. There is a MAJOR difference.
;) )
A flaw in IE, is a key to dropping into the system and escalating priviledges. Case-in-point:
Just Friday I was in a large hospital, waiting in the surgical waiting room. They had 3 new PC's there for patron use.
The PC's were running WindowsXP SP2 and the latest IE with all the patches. The machines were "locked down" with profiles and custom IE configs (so no file menu, no desktop, no start button folders, etc etc.).
There was only an IE icon to click on.
(there also was no agreement to click through or 'terms of use')
Well, I didn't have one of my laptops with me. Or one of the USB thumb drives I keep in my consulting bag (puppy linux), or Knoppix cd, or ANYTHING.
I am sitting at a PC and have absolutely no tools with me to get work done (namely, I wanted an SSH shell into one of my servers so I could at minimum proxy through Putty to my own server to use Squid).
Ok, I can't download anything through IE. Right-clicking is also disabled, etc etc. I take it on as a challenge to get this machine in a useful state.
It took about 10 minutes to discover a flaw in IE (mind you, not a posted one--or one I have ever heard of on BugTraq or FD***). That allowed my to actually bring up an explorer type interface to peruse the file system. I also was able to get on the network to map network printers and access resources. I was able to bypass security to write to the filesystem through an old Win95 dialog trick. I thought "gee, here I am just toying around and I completely evaded what was intended on this box".
Now, I in NO WAY loaded any new code or installed 'viruses' on the PC. I am certain, though, that the administration did not realize the PC's were that 'open'. Had they used Firefox, I would not have been as successful.
Bottom line, IE is a SECURITY RISK regardless of 'patching'
***Ok, Matt. I know you are reading this. I will drop you an email to give you heads up (and fair start
On a quick side-note regarding cartidge costs:
I have been refilling inkjet cartridges for about 7 years and
this HP did not want to be refilled.
After topping off the yellow, the printer failed to acknowledge the color cartridge being installed at all (through the software or the LCD screen ).
When printing from it, it would print the Magenta and Cyan, but refused to print yellow.
HP as well as xerox are going to great efforts to ensure that you purchase new supplies and only purchase those supplies from them (hence Dell's entry into the printer market as well).
The printer market in general is a racket.
Yes, I agree the printer is a bit much. The justification in laying out the cash was to do all brochure printing in-house.
Paper comes from a couple of different paper vendors, but if you _have_ to use OfficeMax or Staples, then be sure to first setup a corporate account. (OfficeMax purchased DeBois and so our account transferred). From any of those stores, I never pay the asking price (ie the price on the shelf) on cartridges/paper/whatever. (If you do any kind of volume pricing, you get a rep and they really take care of you).
This is actually my first run on the 2600 with the 'high capacity' cartridges, so I will have to benchmark how effective it is. The last color cartridge went through over 200 sheets of photo paper and I don't know how much everyday printing.
While some might think, 'well, Microsoft was just ONE of the contributors..'
That reminds me of Forrest Gump. "There's all kinds of shrimp...there's Pineapple Shrimp...Fried Shrimp...coconut shrimp...dead shrimp.....cajun shrimp...."
Ohhh that is quite the selection. Sounds like a variety, but its all SHRIMP.
Go back a couple of years and look at what Staples did with 'Microsoft approved only software' being sold through the stores. Each of the companies listed gets concessions in one way or another from Microsoft (in a MAJOR way). I am just surprised that Best Buy wasn't listed.
Not to burst your bubble, but maybe you just don't know where to shop. Do you honestly purchase paper at almost 66 cents per sheet? Even for 8.5x11, that is retail ripoff.
I buy photo paper (in the convenient 4x6 size) for $13 per 100 sheets. I have almost 1,000 sheets on hand right now just in that size.
Let's clearup some misinformation: You CANNOT use a consumer laser printer with 'photopaper'. The coating sticks to the fuser assembly. Very messy and mindless. 'PhotoPaper' that you purchase at the store is for Inkjets only (they are NOT called 'bubblejets'---that is a Canon term for a specific printer they market).
For photo printing on a laser, I use an Aficio 6513 here in the office. Sure, it cost over $27,000 but 80lb glossy paper turns out images like magazine ads (the shiny surface comes from an additional layer of silicon oil applied after fusing). Lasers do NOT use ink. They use 'toner'. Toner on a 6513 costs 6cents per page. You don't buy cartridges, they are in a maintenance contract.
Anyway, for my PSC2600 Photosmart, the cartridges are $35 for high capacity color and $30 for photo cartridge (with free delivery to my door). Prints are indistinguishable from the lab (or the B&W ones I develop myself from the Pentax K1000 I still have around).
These prints should last for at least 50 years using quality pigment inks (not dye ink).
As far a price-per-sheet, I figured it out once to be on par with taking them to Wally world. I would rather digitally retouch my photos before printing, so it just works FOR ME.
Whatever works for you, that's fine. Just wanted to clearup some mis info in previous post.
Response header on their webserver reports:
Apache/2.0.48 (Fedora)
Guess we know how REALLY smart their IT 'guru' really is, when he doesn't even know the platforms they rely on. All the while, shooting off at the mouth of how Microsoft saved the day for him. (oh and by 'saving the day' I mean that his Microsoft VAR greased the hole first)
How about just also using Fedora for SAP, okay?
(or if compatibility issues, then whitebox linux)