Re:Finally a Solution for Rural Areas
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First its a very inexpensive way to setup a WAN. 56k frames from the big telcos cost hundreds a month and if you can get a line for 20 bucks a month that is nice. You obviously would lose a lot of features like data would have to go to one central location then be routed to the other locations (if you have a location in harford and LA and Chicago) where with a frame it would be able to route its self. You would also lose the ability to do voice and what not... but it makes you wonder if you can hook your expensive systems right up to this line and if they would work.
But on another note I am not sure finding another location would be that difficult if the only thing that matters is the distance between the location and the phone company on either side is what matters. This guy that wrote the article has an ISP and I bet he would be willing (for like 30 bucks a month bringing the total cost to 50 a month) to let her setup to him. But I could be incorrect maybe I am missing something and maybe this person is using the same telco building for both connections which would mean maybe everything would have to be done locally (which would suck)... but I sent him a few questions about this and I hope he will respond.
You are not understanding. If the whole reason he purchased the domain (we should actually say rented but oh well) was so that he could put up a site about the effects of cocain on people and there is no site up then how in the world do we know that is actually why he got the domain. I would tend to think he got the domain to sell it to Coca-Cola at some point in time for a lot of money due to the fact that he has had it for over 2 years (renewed it and everything) and is still not using it. He is just getting fucked now because Coca-Cola is like no we will not buy it we are going to take it and I think they should be given it.
If you actually had a site up and it was dealing with cocain problems then this would not even be an issue because you would actually be using the domain for what you purchased it for. The problem comes in now because you have had the domain for 2 years and you are not using it for what you bought it for so in all likeliness you are going to lose because Coca-Cola will bring you to court and you don't have the money to fight it.
In short you should have created the site before this point in time. But the simple facts are that the domain has been owned for 2 years and you did not develop anything so their argument is going to be that you bought it so they could not get it and you were going to charge them for it. You would have to prove them wrong and that is near impossible due to the fact that you did not build the site you said you wanted to. In short I would talk to a lawyer but you will probably have to either give them the domain name or sell it to them.
You can go to USA Today where they then have a link to Ad Meter which is where you can vote for the best one. They don't have every single one on there but they have most of them in RA format so you can go and watch them.
Actually, as announced on CNBC a few days back, Steve has gone 3 years without pay and in return was rewareded a few days ago with a Jet costing 10 million. Not sure what world you are living in but 100 million will by a pretty kick ass jet that is for sure and pay for pilots and gas for a good long time. But I see nothing unreasonable about 10 million if the dood has gone this long without getting paid. But then again apple pays for a helicopter to fly him into work every day don't they:)
First off for those people thinking carmack is selling out and not going to create another game... your on drugs. Carmack is one of the fastest and best programmers out there. Did everyone forget that GLquake was created in one day on a bet that he could not port quake over to using OpenGL in one day?
Carmack just sees things different then everyone else and he wants to see if its possible to do some pretty sweat stuff. The really awesome thing that no one is even noticing is that carmack and id have million of "followers" if you will. With carmack doing some side work on opensoure projects this means only good news for the world of opensource because now the people who are hacking quake and quake2 and quake3 might think about getting involved in some opensource stuff which will be nice. Also note that carmack loves to do research and loves to just go and hide away from everything and everyone and just code for days and weeks even on things he finds interesting... its definitly fun to do if you can find the time to get away.
Good luck with research carmack can't wait to see what you come up with. It always ends up being exciting.
Just as a side note since it seams you read the plan but are not totally understanding. They are rushing the windows version to market but not the mac or the linux version. This means you might not even see the linux version till after christmas and that is why they are waiting till after christmas or actually I think he said 2 weeks or so after the linux and mac versions ship. The part that sucks here is most linux gamers also have windows systems and they want to play the game as soon as possible. So he is pretty much saying if you run dual systems you best think about it before you buy it and if you want more games for linux then you better not buy the windows version or else your not going to get any linux versions besides from us... for the most part. Just wanted to make sure you under stood that and also understood it would not be a few days but could be more like a month before you see the linux and mac versions actually hit the market after the windows version.
My answer is more in question form. You say you were working and going to College for free but yet you left it to get a higher paying job. Now is the job actually higher paying looking back on the fact that you now want to get your degree? I also left school for a good paying job (consulting job for that matter now I work for myself but I make a min of 70k a year or I was) but I don't have a need for a degree. I could easily stop everything right now and go back to school fulltime to finish up the rest of my schooling with the money I have saved but my question is if its that much better pay why can't you just stop everything and go back and get your degree like it seams you want to? It looks like its really not that much better in the pay area considering then eh?
Ya I know everyone wants linux these days because its so stable. But the simple fact is that a system is as stable as the programmers and administrators creating it. I know many NT gurus who have had systems up for years with NT and I know the same with linux. It might be smarter to try and solve the problem then to just convert for conversion sake and then end up having problems with linux and giving linux a bad name. We don't need that.
Printing is a good idea but I see no one saying anything about debuging. Its funny that most programmers today only debug when somethings crashes. Why only debug when something crashes? There are so many paths your program can take the only realy way to test it so debug and run though the whole program line by line... or on big programs sections of code line bye line. You will find a lot of errors that way... when testing you might never actually jump into that if or get to that part of the case statement but when you realize you have not gone in it while debugin you make sure you go in it by making it happen.
Very simple to do but its beyond messed up how you can talk to programmers that don't actually debug their code before the pass it off to someone else or give it the okay. Even more messed up are the programmers that don't know how to actually use their debuggers, maybe college should force people to make a dubugger class? DEBUG your code line by line and then you know there are no errors its that simple. Print if you want but I don't even own a printer and I have yet to find the debug way not to work.
Sure you can run IIS and Exchange on a p120 along with SQL server 6.5 or 7.0. But you can't do that with e-commerse stuff. I have done it for development and what not but you get a few people hitting the system and if the system is actually dynamic (don't even talk if your serving regular html pages because then you have no clue anyway) then the system will not stay up long never mind handle the load. It seams they were using the same server for E-mail, and web serving of e-commerce... good luck on a 120!
In this case it was a programmer who is probably a windows programmer just converted a cgi over really fast to work on linux. Woo-hoo and you wonder why hacks are bad? Please take pride in your programming. I am sure this is not how pcweek had wanted this to end either.
When I started college, in 1995, the intro classes were pascal and we programmed on the vax systems. The next year they moved over to C++ on the windows system and I moved on to upperlevel classes that mainly delt with c and unix internals. I went to the University of Hartford where Professor John S. Gray teaches who is the auther of a really good book, at least I think it is, called Interprocess Communications In Unix.
I am so glad I got there a year early, although I ahd to deal with the vax systems for a year, because the rest of my time spent at the school was spent using mainy Sun systems where I actually learned just about everything. Learning on a Unix/Linux system is just a totally different way of learning. Its really hard to explain to people that have always used windowed envrironments but for those who use unix/linux they know what I man talking about.
But even beyond that the Unix/Linux environment along with OSS is so much more self satisfying. I don't contribute anything really at this point besides testing of software. But I do know that a few times I have done things like e-mail the creator of eterm and tell him that he should add something to his readme because he assumed people knew something that they probably did not. And I e-mailed the creator of the module Storable and told him what error I was getting and he sent me a fix and I tested it for him and it all went well.
But what happens when I use my NT system, this happens a lot, and I dial up to the internet and ras crashes on me? I have to do a hard reboot... can I e-mail someone at microsoft the error I was getting and have them send me a fix for it? I have never tired but I am sure they will not respond to me if I did... at least not within a few hours, or even within a few minutes. I would have to wait for a service pack to come out usually.
My point is we all know OSS is better because if there is a problem you can either solve it yourself or contact the person that made the product your using but if your using a proprietary system you can't really do that unless your paying tons of money for system support. I am just glad I had a great professor and knowledgable Unix guru teaching me! Don't let Unix go away!
Actually it said they would like you to be able to test samba and samba is pretty much made to connect to windows systems so it would be helpful if you have the ability to connect to windows shares via their os to test stuff (I am guessing they have some nice interface for it since it would not normally be easy for novice users). But thats just my 2 cents.
Its grand that you don't look at the banners or you have a program that makes them not even come up... but when everyone starts doing that look out... we are heading back to the old days where most sites where account driven/pay:) Personally I said that cause I make a living off of creating sites that their only revenue is ads. I think its a great way to have a site. But beyond that I have also found a lot of kewl things though ads... not saying you should or should not look at them but you never know when your going to find something interesting. Usually ads are not there unless there is a good service or product cause they would not be able to pay for the ad space. Just my two cents.
Nope it says right in it that "you can already see in action on Slashdot...". This would mean that he already has the patch running on/. and that the banner ads you see right now and the way you see them will not change:). My question is why is he still using cgi... has he considered using Mason yet.
Ummm not sure what you read but this is not saying technical people are having problems paying for things cause god knows if your doing something technical and your not making a lot of money it is because you don't feel like moving to where someone will pay you a lot. It is saying public servents (cops, firemen and what not) are not making enough to pay for things.
As for 600 a month that is a deal depending on where you live. If your paying $600 a month in boston I want to know how... they charge $700 a month for a card board box. But if your paying $600 out in Missouri and all you get is a little place your getting ripped off cause the best apts out in Missouri are very close to $600 a month. It all depends on who wants to live there and who works around there.
But for you to say we need a union because of this is just dumb considering it says nothing about technical people not being able to afford it. Personally from what I have seen with unions is they help lazy people and hurt people who work hard. What good is that. I like to work 14 to 18 hours days! If you don't fine then do work them but don't do something that is going to hurt me just cause I like to my work and love to do it.
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Re:So Carmack doesn�t know what he�s doing then?;)
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You would be talking about in quake2. The source to all their projects is always released after a time delay! Doom was released, Wolf was released the only problem they have had is not holding all copy rights on things like the sound and what not. But all source will get released and they should be releasing quake source code a little after q3 comes out. They are waiting for a few companies to move over to their quake2 or 3 engine so they can do so.
But to even compare someone as great as Carmack to Microsoft is just nuts! Look at all the time he has spent buggin Mac about their systems and finally they got a clue and updated. Sure you might not like Macs but the more competion between operating systems the better because they can only take ground from Microsoft there is not much left to lose. --MD--
Ummm dood! You can start watching the movie at 12:01am correct? Well if that is so the movie is not 24 hours long so go watch it at 12:01am sleep a little and then wake up and go to the expo. I see no reason why this is so hard to do unless there are theaters near you that are open 24 hours a day and your planning on watching the movie 50 times taht day.
Microsoft has to been hacked into before. I know of one specific situation, about a year ago, when microsofts site was hacked and what the hackers did was put up a page which reloaded itself every second... so the page would load and then reload. I am guessing the purpose of this was to try and knock down the servers but there are way to many over there at M$ to do that. I know this happened for a fact because I was one of the first people to notice. Sure M$ had the site back up and running in like an hour and they never really told anyone about it, (and being about 7am est I am sure not to many people notice) but it sure did happen. I am pretty sure there is another case when this happened to but I did not actually see it so I am not going to write about it:).
Oh and second I think the original guy who you responded to about not knowing about NT might not know about NT that much but in either cause by default anyone can delete profiles. Once again that is not good and once again you can change it but NT is being marketed as an easy to administer OS and is actually hard as hell to administer. Personally I, and many others, would agree that NT is actually hard to administer then NT. One mainly because people think it is easy and over look a lot of issues when doing administration... and two because there is so much to it. I am not even close to what I would consider and NT administrator nore a unix one but I know many and it seams that they agree NT is harder to administer. But either way each operating system has ups and downs but the problem with NT is that it is the biggest so people have to knock it. That is how we are.
Ummm okay so you want it for 6 bucks instead of 10 bucks... wtf? Damn 4 bucks can just barely buy you a hamburger these days and your crying cause they want to charge 10 bucks for a cd? And actually as you said if you want 2-3 months... why would anyone want to wait 2-3 months to save 4 bucks... god walk around the street and you will find 4 bucks laying on the ground.
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First its a very inexpensive way to setup a WAN. 56k frames from the big telcos cost hundreds a month and if you can get a line for 20 bucks a month that is nice. You obviously would lose a lot of features like data would have to go to one central location then be routed to the other locations (if you have a location in harford and LA and Chicago) where with a frame it would be able to route its self. You would also lose the ability to do voice and what not... but it makes you wonder if you can hook your expensive systems right up to this line and if they would work.
But on another note I am not sure finding another location would be that difficult if the only thing that matters is the distance between the location and the phone company on either side is what matters. This guy that wrote the article has an ISP and I bet he would be willing (for like 30 bucks a month bringing the total cost to 50 a month) to let her setup to him. But I could be incorrect maybe I am missing something and maybe this person is using the same telco building for both connections which would mean maybe everything would have to be done locally (which would suck)... but I sent him a few questions about this and I hope he will respond.
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You are not understanding. If the whole reason he purchased the domain (we should actually say rented but oh well) was so that he could put up a site about the effects of cocain on people and there is no site up then how in the world do we know that is actually why he got the domain. I would tend to think he got the domain to sell it to Coca-Cola at some point in time for a lot of money due to the fact that he has had it for over 2 years (renewed it and everything) and is still not using it. He is just getting fucked now because Coca-Cola is like no we will not buy it we are going to take it and I think they should be given it.
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If you actually had a site up and it was dealing with cocain problems then this would not even be an issue because you would actually be using the domain for what you purchased it for. The problem comes in now because you have had the domain for 2 years and you are not using it for what you bought it for so in all likeliness you are going to lose because Coca-Cola will bring you to court and you don't have the money to fight it.
In short you should have created the site before this point in time. But the simple facts are that the domain has been owned for 2 years and you did not develop anything so their argument is going to be that you bought it so they could not get it and you were going to charge them for it. You would have to prove them wrong and that is near impossible due to the fact that you did not build the site you said you wanted to. In short I would talk to a lawyer but you will probably have to either give them the domain name or sell it to them.
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HAHA ROFL Yep but it does not mean you will ever be found now does it :).
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You can go to USA Today where they then have a link to Ad Meter which is where you can vote for the best one. They don't have every single one on there but they have most of them in RA format so you can go and watch them.
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Actually, as announced on CNBC a few days back, Steve has gone 3 years without pay and in return was rewareded a few days ago with a Jet costing 10 million. Not sure what world you are living in but 100 million will by a pretty kick ass jet that is for sure and pay for pilots and gas for a good long time. But I see nothing unreasonable about 10 million if the dood has gone this long without getting paid. But then again apple pays for a helicopter to fly him into work every day don't they :)
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First off for those people thinking carmack is selling out and not going to create another game... your on drugs. Carmack is one of the fastest and best programmers out there. Did everyone forget that GLquake was created in one day on a bet that he could not port quake over to using OpenGL in one day?
Carmack just sees things different then everyone else and he wants to see if its possible to do some pretty sweat stuff. The really awesome thing that no one is even noticing is that carmack and id have million of "followers" if you will. With carmack doing some side work on opensoure projects this means only good news for the world of opensource because now the people who are hacking quake and quake2 and quake3 might think about getting involved in some opensource stuff which will be nice. Also note that carmack loves to do research and loves to just go and hide away from everything and everyone and just code for days and weeks even on things he finds interesting... its definitly fun to do if you can find the time to get away.
Good luck with research carmack can't wait to see what you come up with. It always ends up being exciting.
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Just as a side note since it seams you read the plan but are not totally understanding. They are rushing the windows version to market but not the mac or the linux version. This means you might not even see the linux version till after christmas and that is why they are waiting till after christmas or actually I think he said 2 weeks or so after the linux and mac versions ship. The part that sucks here is most linux gamers also have windows systems and they want to play the game as soon as possible. So he is pretty much saying if you run dual systems you best think about it before you buy it and if you want more games for linux then you better not buy the windows version or else your not going to get any linux versions besides from us... for the most part. Just wanted to make sure you under stood that and also understood it would not be a few days but could be more like a month before you see the linux and mac versions actually hit the market after the windows version.
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My answer is more in question form. You say you were working and going to College for free but yet you left it to get a higher paying job. Now is the job actually higher paying looking back on the fact that you now want to get your degree? I also left school for a good paying job (consulting job for that matter now I work for myself but I make a min of 70k a year or I was) but I don't have a need for a degree. I could easily stop everything right now and go back to school fulltime to finish up the rest of my schooling with the money I have saved but my question is if its that much better pay why can't you just stop everything and go back and get your degree like it seams you want to? It looks like its really not that much better in the pay area considering then eh?
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Ya I know everyone wants linux these days because its so stable. But the simple fact is that a system is as stable as the programmers and administrators creating it. I know many NT gurus who have had systems up for years with NT and I know the same with linux. It might be smarter to try and solve the problem then to just convert for conversion sake and then end up having problems with linux and giving linux a bad name. We don't need that.
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How good was your writting in seventh grade?
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With the speed menu (writen in java as an add-on) and other things you can do to emacs I personally consider it an IDE.
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In this case Hacker is correct because he actually programmed and hacked apart the code to get in.
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Printing is a good idea but I see no one saying anything about debuging. Its funny that most programmers today only debug when somethings crashes. Why only debug when something crashes? There are so many paths your program can take the only realy way to test it so debug and run though the whole program line by line... or on big programs sections of code line bye line. You will find a lot of errors that way... when testing you might never actually jump into that if or get to that part of the case statement but when you realize you have not gone in it while debugin you make sure you go in it by making it happen.
Very simple to do but its beyond messed up how you can talk to programmers that don't actually debug their code before the pass it off to someone else or give it the okay. Even more messed up are the programmers that don't know how to actually use their debuggers, maybe college should force people to make a dubugger class? DEBUG your code line by line and then you know there are no errors its that simple. Print if you want but I don't even own a printer and I have yet to find the debug way not to work.
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Sure you can run IIS and Exchange on a p120 along with SQL server 6.5 or 7.0. But you can't do that with e-commerse stuff. I have done it for development and what not but you get a few people hitting the system and if the system is actually dynamic (don't even talk if your serving regular html pages because then you have no clue anyway) then the system will not stay up long never mind handle the load. It seams they were using the same server for E-mail, and web serving of e-commerce... good luck on a 120!
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In this case it was a programmer who is probably a windows programmer just converted a cgi over really fast to work on linux. Woo-hoo and you wonder why hacks are bad? Please take pride in your programming. I am sure this is not how pcweek had wanted this to end either.
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When I started college, in 1995, the intro classes were pascal and we programmed on the vax systems. The next year they moved over to C++ on the windows system and I moved on to upperlevel classes that mainly delt with c and unix internals. I went to the University of Hartford where Professor John S. Gray teaches who is the auther of a really good book, at least I think it is, called Interprocess Communications In Unix.
I am so glad I got there a year early, although I ahd to deal with the vax systems for a year, because the rest of my time spent at the school was spent using mainy Sun systems where I actually learned just about everything. Learning on a Unix/Linux system is just a totally different way of learning. Its really hard to explain to people that have always used windowed envrironments but for those who use unix/linux they know what I man talking about.
But even beyond that the Unix/Linux environment along with OSS is so much more self satisfying. I don't contribute anything really at this point besides testing of software. But I do know that a few times I have done things like e-mail the creator of eterm and tell him that he should add something to his readme because he assumed people knew something that they probably did not. And I e-mailed the creator of the module Storable and told him what error I was getting and he sent me a fix and I tested it for him and it all went well.
But what happens when I use my NT system, this happens a lot, and I dial up to the internet and ras crashes on me? I have to do a hard reboot... can I e-mail someone at microsoft the error I was getting and have them send me a fix for it? I have never tired but I am sure they will not respond to me if I did... at least not within a few hours, or even within a few minutes. I would have to wait for a service pack to come out usually.
My point is we all know OSS is better because if there is a problem you can either solve it yourself or contact the person that made the product your using but if your using a proprietary system you can't really do that unless your paying tons of money for system support. I am just glad I had a great professor and knowledgable Unix guru teaching me! Don't let Unix go away!
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Actually it said they would like you to be able to test samba and samba is pretty much made to connect to windows systems so it would be helpful if you have the ability to connect to windows shares via their os to test stuff (I am guessing they have some nice interface for it since it would not normally be easy for novice users). But thats just my 2 cents.
--MD--
Its grand that you don't look at the banners or you have a program that makes them not even come up... but when everyone starts doing that look out... we are heading back to the old days where most sites where account driven/pay :) Personally I said that cause I make a living off of creating sites that their only revenue is ads. I think its a great way to have a site. But beyond that I have also found a lot of kewl things though ads... not saying you should or should not look at them but you never know when your going to find something interesting. Usually ads are not there unless there is a good service or product cause they would not be able to pay for the ad space. Just my two cents.
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Nope it says right in it that "you can already see in action on Slashdot...". This would mean that he already has the patch running on /. and that the banner ads you see right now and the way you see them will not change :). My question is why is he still using cgi... has he considered using Mason yet.
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Ummm not sure what you read but this is not saying technical people are having problems paying for things cause god knows if your doing something technical and your not making a lot of money it is because you don't feel like moving to where someone will pay you a lot. It is saying public servents (cops, firemen and what not) are not making enough to pay for things.
As for 600 a month that is a deal depending on where you live. If your paying $600 a month in boston I want to know how... they charge $700 a month for a card board box. But if your paying $600 out in Missouri and all you get is a little place your getting ripped off cause the best apts out in Missouri are very close to $600 a month. It all depends on who wants to live there and who works around there.
But for you to say we need a union because of this is just dumb considering it says nothing about technical people not being able to afford it. Personally from what I have seen with unions is they help lazy people and hurt people who work hard. What good is that. I like to work 14 to 18 hours days! If you don't fine then do work them but don't do something that is going to hurt me just cause I like to my work and love to do it.
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You would be talking about in quake2. The source to all their projects is always released after a time delay! Doom was released, Wolf was released the only problem they have had is not holding all copy rights on things like the sound and what not. But all source will get released and they should be releasing quake source code a little after q3 comes out. They are waiting for a few companies to move over to their quake2 or 3 engine so they can do so.
But to even compare someone as great as Carmack to Microsoft is just nuts! Look at all the time he has spent buggin Mac about their systems and finally they got a clue and updated. Sure you might not like Macs but the more competion between operating systems the better because they can only take ground from Microsoft there is not much left to lose.
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Ummm dood! You can start watching the movie at 12:01am correct? Well if that is so the movie is not 24 hours long so go watch it at 12:01am sleep a little and then wake up and go to the expo. I see no reason why this is so hard to do unless there are theaters near you that are open 24 hours a day and your planning on watching the movie 50 times taht day.
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Microsoft has to been hacked into before. I know of one specific situation, about a year ago, when microsofts site was hacked and what the hackers did was put up a page which reloaded itself every second... so the page would load and then reload. I am guessing the purpose of this was to try and knock down the servers but there are way to many over there at M$ to do that. I know this happened for a fact because I was one of the first people to notice. Sure M$ had the site back up and running in like an hour and they never really told anyone about it, (and being about 7am est I am sure not to many people notice) but it sure did happen. I am pretty sure there is another case when this happened to but I did not actually see it so I am not going to write about it :).
Oh and second I think the original guy who you responded to about not knowing about NT might not know about NT that much but in either cause by default anyone can delete profiles. Once again that is not good and once again you can change it but NT is being marketed as an easy to administer OS and is actually hard as hell to administer. Personally I, and many others, would agree that NT is actually hard to administer then NT. One mainly because people think it is easy and over look a lot of issues when doing administration... and two because there is so much to it. I am not even close to what I would consider and NT administrator nore a unix one but I know many and it seams that they agree NT is harder to administer. But either way each operating system has ups and downs but the problem with NT is that it is the biggest so people have to knock it. That is how we are.
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Ummm okay so you want it for 6 bucks instead of 10 bucks... wtf? Damn 4 bucks can just barely buy you a hamburger these days and your crying cause they want to charge 10 bucks for a cd? And actually as you said if you want 2-3 months... why would anyone want to wait 2-3 months to save 4 bucks... god walk around the street and you will find 4 bucks laying on the ground.
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