Lol. Good point. When I was a tech-support goon, we had a stated policy of reviewing all our teams written communications traffic. As CRM admin, it was my job to reedit unprofessional comments in the case history, just so this sort of thing never came back to bite me in the ass...
After 3 years, turns out the developers were much worse at insulting customers than we ever were...
Yup. Baybank to bankboston. Excellent merger, IMHO. Bankboston to FleetBoston however, was a massacre, partially because of the requirement to sell branches to Sovereign, causing all sorts of fuck-ups when customers found out their Fleet accounts now belonged to Sovereign, and they couldn't get paid because their HR wonks fucked up the direct deposit.
Their policy of closing accounts when the balance reached $0.00 at midnight, causing me to miss getting paid, caused me to stop being a FleetBoston customer after 3 days.
Remember, in any merger, the service being improved, is that that people are paying $millions for, not the service you and I, Joe American, Joe French are paying for...
Which would never happen, because: A) They could never sue any of their customers because B) you cannot disprove cross-pollination unless you get the right set of circumstances.
Monsanto would be better off NOT suing these bystanders in the first place.
Much of which goes to feed cattle. What's the figure I heard, 98% of all corn grown in the U.S. is feed corn? Not sure about soybeans, but I'd guess it's a pretty high percentage as feed as well. There's not THAT much demand for Silk(TM).
That whole emiment domain thing never really made sense to me... If the fucking people want it so badly, then by god they should be prepared to pay out of the ass for it.
It's a fucking travesty that I have to have my crops DNA tested before sending them off to market. And even then, I surrender my profits because my organic-grown, compost-fed crops are ruined by my neighbors super seeds?
Fucking insane. This Intellectual Property shit is getting out of hand...
Unix has several ways to battle this. First, chroot jails, privileged ports for public services. There are glaring holes, mind you, lack of sophisticated access controls and auditing, something Windows has on Linux at the moment, but UNIX, done with a modicum of skill can be nigh impenetrable. Windows doesn't give you these abilities.
There is absolutely NOTHING stopping you from selling support contracts to people still running Redhat 6 or SuSE 7.2 if you want. Just a matter of advertising dollars.
One of the benefits of Open Source actually. You just can't fix any of RedHat's closed source stuff.
Best 900mhz phone I ever used never worked from my basement office to my backyard (and I used a lot, AT&T, Sony, Uniden, Motorola, crap-no-name brands). Uniden 5.8 Ghz phone works from same office to the far reaches of my backyard. Since both my father and I work out of said office and spend the better part of our sunny days doing complex yardwork, we need to be able to take calls out there.
But with a decent firmware like Sveasoft, you can QoS him down a notch and prevent saturation. I'd say that's half the reason they implemented it (and why I run it, damn roommates downloading movies).
Probably only 5-6 of them are actually carrying any traffic. And if they're anything like the linksys WRT54G, point your browser at 192.168.1.1, type "admin" in for a password, and you'll be able to see everyone connected in the status page. Flash them all with sveasoft Alchemy, and set the transmit power to 5mw on the lot of them.
The Remote Admin setting only protects the WAN port on the average Linksys.
nevermind the fact that most operating systems will let you change the mac address, so it'd be pretty hard to argue that it was XXX. If you change MAC addresses often enough, they'd only be able to nab you if A) they could convince a judge that your "freeloading" was probable cause to get a warrant for your computer, and B) found shit on your computer.
I can barely get my Alchemy-based WRT54G to record ANY incoming or outgoing traffic.
Good luck using my Linksys to prove the guy next door did or did not rob XYZ Corp.
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So XENbios wouldn't be out of the question? :-)
I fucking hate infinite loops... ;-)
Lol. Good point. When I was a tech-support goon, we had a stated policy of reviewing all our teams written communications traffic. As CRM admin, it was my job to reedit unprofessional comments in the case history, just so this sort of thing never came back to bite me in the ass...
After 3 years, turns out the developers were much worse at insulting customers than we ever were...
Thank you for taking the time to say so eloquently what I've felt for years, and was too lazy to put into words.
Yup. Baybank to bankboston. Excellent merger, IMHO. Bankboston to FleetBoston however, was a massacre, partially because of the requirement to sell branches to Sovereign, causing all sorts of fuck-ups when customers found out their Fleet accounts now belonged to Sovereign, and they couldn't get paid because their HR wonks fucked up the direct deposit.
Their policy of closing accounts when the balance reached $0.00 at midnight, causing me to miss getting paid, caused me to stop being a FleetBoston customer after 3 days.
Remember, in any merger, the service being improved, is that that people are paying $millions for, not the service you and I, Joe American, Joe French are paying for...
Which would never happen, because:
A) They could never sue any of their customers because
B) you cannot disprove cross-pollination unless you get the right set of circumstances.
Monsanto would be better off NOT suing these bystanders in the first place.
Much of which goes to feed cattle. What's the figure I heard, 98% of all corn grown in the U.S. is feed corn? Not sure about soybeans, but I'd guess it's a pretty high percentage as feed as well. There's not THAT much demand for Silk(TM).
That whole emiment domain thing never really made sense to me... If the fucking people want it so badly, then by god they should be prepared to pay out of the ass for it.
It's a fucking travesty that I have to have my crops DNA tested before sending them off to market. And even then, I surrender my profits because my organic-grown, compost-fed crops are ruined by my neighbors super seeds?
Fucking insane. This Intellectual Property shit is getting out of hand...
One's plausible, the other is not.
When you get into that many tapes, I start considering my love for differentials over incrementals... usually fewer tapes to restore.
But yes, I dreaded backing up my dad's office's 10GB+ disks with 500MB QIC drives. Shudder!
for $1500 you can build a decent two-way Athlon XP 3200 box, perhaps even an Athlon64 machine.
Hey, Twelve Monkeys wasn't so bad...
Probably just enough to cover electricity, hosting and bandwidth costs. Probably not enough to finance his education.
You cannot even install BattleField 1942 as a non-admin user. I've been loathe to even bother running it as a non-admin user.
That's funny, because in over 2 years of using XP on half a dozen computers, homebuilt and from Dell, I've NEVER seen a BSOD.
Except that one time I overheated my laptop to 150F.
oops.
Unix has several ways to battle this. First, chroot jails, privileged ports for public services. There are glaring holes, mind you, lack of sophisticated access controls and auditing, something Windows has on Linux at the moment, but UNIX, done with a modicum of skill can be nigh impenetrable. Windows doesn't give you these abilities.
Samba + LDAP good. AD + NDS bad.
Open. Closed.
The graphics subsystem was moved into kernel space in 3.51, IIRC.
There is absolutely NOTHING stopping you from selling support contracts to people still running Redhat 6 or SuSE 7.2 if you want. Just a matter of advertising dollars.
One of the benefits of Open Source actually. You just can't fix any of RedHat's closed source stuff.
Best 900mhz phone I ever used never worked from my basement office to my backyard (and I used a lot, AT&T, Sony, Uniden, Motorola, crap-no-name brands). Uniden 5.8 Ghz phone works from same office to the far reaches of my backyard. Since both my father and I work out of said office and spend the better part of our sunny days doing complex yardwork, we need to be able to take calls out there.
5.8 ghz phones have their place.
But with a decent firmware like Sveasoft, you can QoS him down a notch and prevent saturation. I'd say that's half the reason they implemented it (and why I run it, damn roommates downloading movies).
When is sveasoft going to put a REAL VPN server in Alchemy? Anyone have any success getting OpenVPN installed on a WRT54G?
Probably only 5-6 of them are actually carrying any traffic. And if they're anything like the linksys WRT54G, point your browser at 192.168.1.1, type "admin" in for a password, and you'll be able to see everyone connected in the status page. Flash them all with sveasoft Alchemy, and set the transmit power to 5mw on the lot of them.
The Remote Admin setting only protects the WAN port on the average Linksys.
nevermind the fact that most operating systems will let you change the mac address, so it'd be pretty hard to argue that it was XXX. If you change MAC addresses often enough, they'd only be able to nab you if A) they could convince a judge that your "freeloading" was probable cause to get a warrant for your computer, and B) found shit on your computer.
I can barely get my Alchemy-based WRT54G to record ANY incoming or outgoing traffic.
Good luck using my Linksys to prove the guy next door did or did not rob XYZ Corp.