...teach them the CMD-environment batch file language, which became a real computer language sometime around 2001 and becomes better and more powerful with each successive iteration of Windows.
My first Saab 96 was a '69 model, with about 100K miles on it, and I drove it like a stolen car. I took it off-roading every chance I got... sometimes, I would be the only car out at the end of a Jeep trail, with the truckers trying to figure out how I got there.
I beat that poor thing unmercifully for about two years until one of the tie rod ends got sloppy. I replaced it, set the toe with a long piece of string, and drove to a shop to get the wheels aligned... but they were aligned perfectly after all that abuse, so the guy only charged me ten bucks.
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My mother's father was the second Saab dealer in North America.
My father and I worked on every Saab in the southern half of our state from the '60s until 1980. My dad was known for converting '65-up models from the 3-cylinder engines to the later V4's, and he also did special effects for the one Bond film in which 007 drove a Saab. Saab offered to build a dealership for my father, but he was ready to retire... so they sold the franchise to a real loser, and stopped selling us parts.
The Saab 96 was so far ahead of its time that nobody has yet caught up to it. It was the stiffest, strongest & safest 2000-lb. car ever built.
My General Motors car has a GM radio, and that is monopolistic behavior... furthermore, by programming the radio to remember which key fob unlocked it and to get louder as the car's speed increases, they have tied the radio into the car's operating system in an unfair manner. I demand that General Motors install a selection of radios in my car, and let me choose between them.
Stupid? No stupider than blaming Microsoft for including a browser in Windows. Can we sue Mac for putting Safari in their OS?
I wasn't in the military, so I can't argue... but, if you have time, look up what 3-7 Cavalry and its Apache Troop did on the way to Baghdad. They were a truly elite squadron, and they had an infinite kill ratio in Iraq: they slaughtered thousands of Fedayeen, Republican Guard, and everyone else who got in their way... and lost nobody. This book gives a pretty good accounting of it. It confirms the harrowing stories he told about their drive up the Euphrates.
...with an M1A1 Abrahms tank.
He was a hard-core FPS gamer, and he joined the Army at 18. They tested him to see what his skills were, which included a turn in the Army's tank simulator.
As he tells it, he was in there a long time -- much longer than the recruits ahead of him had been. When he came out, the room was full of people, including officers, who were all staring at him. He asked, "What's everybody looking at? Someone replied, "A tanker, son... you just beat the highest score on that thing."
For his expertise, he was rewarded with an all-expense-paid trip to Baghdad in 2003...
When I worked at a corporate office in Maryland, they used the building's air conditioning to cool the server room.
This worked well until the outside temperature got down to about 15 degrees Fahrenheit, but then it failed miserably: the outdoor condensers no longer functioned, the AC shut down, and the entire IT department went into a panic.
The first time this happened, I (a lowly Help Desk tech) suggested to the CIO that he run a duct into the room from the outside: a simple fan would bring in enough sub-freezing air to cool the servers.
The second time it happened, the look on his face told me he hadn't taken my suggestion seriously enough.
The third time, he flipped a switch and the fan cooled his server room just fine.
When I build a Windows box, I turn off QuickTime's default automatic updates and delete the shortcut from the Start menu.
(I also install Flash and Java in front of the customer, so I can show them the "already checked box" scam).
I have FF 3.5.3 and AdBlock, the latest Flash and Java, AND the latest MVPS Hosts file, and it came up anyway. Three hours after I added the two sites involved to my Hosts file, the redirect happened again... but this time, it stalled.
Bottom line: Signature- and site-based detection can always be defeated.
...that was very strict with its clients about expecting off-hours duty from its employees.
They charged clients per day for on-call status, and charged them more for calling us. They passed the money along, so the sound of my work cell ringing was like a cash register. Just being on call, even if nobody did call, was an extra few hundred per week in my check.
To really know what's happening in northern Delaware, you need to haunt the Wilmington News Journal's Web site. They post breaking news all day, including many stories that will never make it into the paper... and the links to those stories vanish when the dead-tree edition hist the driveway.
You are in an excellent position to observe, understand, and theorize about the configuration of the company's Windows image. There are Windows 7 deployments in your future... would you rather sit at the desk trying to support the end users, or take part in the image design to help prevent problems?
Grab everything you can get about Windows 7 installation and deployment. Throw together a few test mules using the release candidate, and gain as much hands-on experience as possible installing and pre-configuring desktops to better meet the needs of your employer. (If possible, gather the equipment and set up your lab at the Help Desk: this will attract attention to your project, and to your determination to get out ahead of the curve with Win7). Sign up for Microsoft training on this, and seek reimbursement: paying for your training will make your bosses more likely to seek benefit from it. (Pay for the training before you seek reimbursement, and attend it even if you don't get the money from your employer. This will convey your determination to advance from a reactive posture [Help Desk] to proactivity [preventing problems]).
I was lead tech on a help desk for a year. The consulting firm that put me there tried to sell the client on an XP image. The client agreed, on the condition that I design the image. Next thing I knew, I was sought after as an image design Subject Matter Expert...
If Microsoft has a monopoly, why are they spending so much money to compete against Apple?
The fact is that operating system is not complete without a browser, the same as a car is not complete without a radio. Microsoft has every right to include a browser, and they have the right to build it themselves.
If you don't like it, and you clearly don't, fix it yourself when you get your PC home... or buy a Mac, or get a pile of parts and duct-tape some flavor of Linux to them.
It's not fair that General Motors put only their own radio in my Malibu.
Worse, they tied my Chevy's radio to the operating system: the volume turns up when the car goes faster, and it knows which key fob I used to unlock the doors. This is anticompetitive and monopolist.
I demand that GM install multiple radios -- one each from Ford, Chrysler, Bosch, Blaupunkt, and Kraco, plus an open-source handwired crystal receiver from Heathkit -- and I demand that they print the wiring diagram on the hood (so I can design my own radio anytime I come down off the Percocet). Every time I start the car, I should be presented with a menu allowing me to choose which will serve as the "default radio."
They tend to design things to outlast the competition.
Look at the Kalashnikov: crude, but timeless. Our tax dollars have bought hundreds of thousands of AK-knockoffs in the last few years alone, for our puppets... I mean allies.
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I remove malware for a living. Because I work in strangers' houses in unfamiliar neighborhoods, I also carry a large powerful handgun.
If I met someone who credibly claimed to be an author or distributor of malware, I fear I might "lose" several 80-cent bullets...
...teach them the CMD-environment batch file language, which became a real computer language sometime around 2001 and becomes better and more powerful with each successive iteration of Windows.
My first Saab 96 was a '69 model, with about 100K miles on it, and I drove it like a stolen car. I took it off-roading every chance I got... sometimes, I would be the only car out at the end of a Jeep trail, with the truckers trying to figure out how I got there.
I beat that poor thing unmercifully for about two years until one of the tie rod ends got sloppy. I replaced it, set the toe with a long piece of string, and drove to a shop to get the wheels aligned... but they were aligned perfectly after all that abuse, so the guy only charged me ten bucks.
My mother's father was the second Saab dealer in North America.
My father and I worked on every Saab in the southern half of our state from the '60s until 1980. My dad was known for converting '65-up models from the 3-cylinder engines to the later V4's, and he also did special effects for the one Bond film in which 007 drove a Saab. Saab offered to build a dealership for my father, but he was ready to retire... so they sold the franchise to a real loser, and stopped selling us parts.
The Saab 96 was so far ahead of its time that nobody has yet caught up to it. It was the stiffest, strongest & safest 2000-lb. car ever built.
My General Motors car has a GM radio, and that is monopolistic behavior... furthermore, by programming the radio to remember which key fob unlocked it and to get louder as the car's speed increases, they have tied the radio into the car's operating system in an unfair manner.
I demand that General Motors install a selection of radios in my car, and let me choose between them.
Stupid? No stupider than blaming Microsoft for including a browser in Windows. Can we sue Mac for putting Safari in their OS?
I wasn't in the military, so I can't argue... but, if you have time, look up what 3-7 Cavalry and its Apache Troop did on the way to Baghdad. They were a truly elite squadron, and they had an infinite kill ratio in Iraq: they slaughtered thousands of Fedayeen, Republican Guard, and everyone else who got in their way... and lost nobody.
This book gives a pretty good accounting of it. It confirms the harrowing stories he told about their drive up the Euphrates.
Indeed, he was.
...with an M1A1 Abrahms tank. He was a hard-core FPS gamer, and he joined the Army at 18. They tested him to see what his skills were, which included a turn in the Army's tank simulator.
As he tells it, he was in there a long time -- much longer than the recruits ahead of him had been. When he came out, the room was full of people, including officers, who were all staring at him.
He asked, "What's everybody looking at?
Someone replied, "A tanker, son... you just beat the highest score on that thing."
For his expertise, he was rewarded with an all-expense-paid trip to Baghdad in 2003...
I run a one-man PC repair company with about 750 customers. I'll happily sell it to HP for $12 million... or to you for $0.12 million.
I couldn't wait to find out which company HP would destroy next.
When I worked at a corporate office in Maryland, they used the building's air conditioning to cool the server room.
This worked well until the outside temperature got down to about 15 degrees Fahrenheit, but then it failed miserably: the outdoor condensers no longer functioned, the AC shut down, and the entire IT department went into a panic.
The first time this happened, I (a lowly Help Desk tech) suggested to the CIO that he run a duct into the room from the outside: a simple fan would bring in enough sub-freezing air to cool the servers.
The second time it happened, the look on his face told me he hadn't taken my suggestion seriously enough.
The third time, he flipped a switch and the fan cooled his server room just fine.
You obviously need to learn how to write a sentence!
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Sun was pushing the Bing toolbar with a pre-checked box until last week... now they're pushing Carbonite 30-day trialware the same way.
When I build a Windows box, I turn off QuickTime's default automatic updates and delete the shortcut from the Start menu.
(I also install Flash and Java in front of the customer, so I can show them the "already checked box" scam).
I have FF 3.5.3 and AdBlock, the latest Flash and Java, AND the latest MVPS Hosts file, and it came up anyway. Three hours after I added the two sites involved to my Hosts file, the redirect happened again... but this time, it stalled.
Bottom line: Signature- and site-based detection can always be defeated.
Plural, as in two flash drives with the same contents (in case one breaks). .RTF, .JPG, .MP3 and .MOV files will all be legible in 2019.
...that was very strict with its clients about expecting off-hours duty from its employees.
They charged clients per day for on-call status, and charged them more for calling us. They passed the money along, so the sound of my work cell ringing was like a cash register. Just being on call, even if nobody did call, was an extra few hundred per week in my check.
One of my (newest) customers had a problem with IE opening a .aspx file from his bank's Web site.
Vista offered to look for a program on the Web... it used Bing to seek a solution... and the "sponsored link" he clecked was malware.
Bottom line: Bing gave me a $90 cleanup job.
To really know what's happening in northern Delaware, you need to haunt the Wilmington News Journal's Web site. They post breaking news all day, including many stories that will never make it into the paper... and the links to those stories vanish when the dead-tree edition hist the driveway.
You are in an excellent position to observe, understand, and theorize about the configuration of the company's Windows image. There are Windows 7 deployments in your future... would you rather sit at the desk trying to support the end users, or take part in the image design to help prevent problems?
Grab everything you can get about Windows 7 installation and deployment. Throw together a few test mules using the release candidate, and gain as much hands-on experience as possible installing and pre-configuring desktops to better meet the needs of your employer. (If possible, gather the equipment and set up your lab at the Help Desk: this will attract attention to your project, and to your determination to get out ahead of the curve with Win7). Sign up for Microsoft training on this, and seek reimbursement: paying for your training will make your bosses more likely to seek benefit from it. (Pay for the training before you seek reimbursement, and attend it even if you don't get the money from your employer. This will convey your determination to advance from a reactive posture [Help Desk] to proactivity [preventing problems]).
I was lead tech on a help desk for a year. The consulting firm that put me there tried to sell the client on an XP image. The client agreed, on the condition that I design the image. Next thing I knew, I was sought after as an image design Subject Matter Expert...
If Microsoft has a monopoly, why are they spending so much money to compete against Apple?
The fact is that operating system is not complete without a browser, the same as a car is not complete without a radio. Microsoft has every right to include a browser, and they have the right to build it themselves.
If you don't like it, and you clearly don't, fix it yourself when you get your PC home... or buy a Mac, or get a pile of parts and duct-tape some flavor of Linux to them.
Yes, and Microsoft does not have a monopoly on operating systems. Q.E.D.
Thanks for the help!
It's not fair that General Motors put only their own radio in my Malibu.
Worse, they tied my Chevy's radio to the operating system: the volume turns up when the car goes faster, and it knows which key fob I used to unlock the doors. This is anticompetitive and monopolist.
I demand that GM install multiple radios -- one each from Ford, Chrysler, Bosch, Blaupunkt, and Kraco, plus an open-source handwired crystal receiver from Heathkit -- and I demand that they print the wiring diagram on the hood (so I can design my own radio anytime I come down off the Percocet).
Every time I start the car, I should be presented with a menu allowing me to choose which will serve as the "default radio."
Yeah. Also, how come every time I buy batteries, they aren't included?
They tend to design things to outlast the competition.
Look at the Kalashnikov: crude, but timeless. Our tax dollars have bought hundreds of thousands of AK-knockoffs in the last few years alone, for our puppets... I mean allies.