--The only automated system that I've really liked using is Walmart's prescription-refill phone service. It's dead easy.
--Aside from the occasional movie-ticket kiosk and maybe paying a bill by phone, literally EVERY OTHER TIME that I can think of, I'm pressing 0 on the phone menu or practially shouting "Operator!" to try and get to a human.
--The thing that a lot of so-called "modern" companies don't understand is that we DON'T want to talk to somebody with an 8-syllable name in India, we want somebody on the phone that is actually going to be able to **help us** in a polite and professional manner.
--Real Customer Service(TM) needs to make a comeback - and to do that, they need to stop paying CS reps peanuts - and soul-killing them in phone centers with crazy rules, authoritarian manglement, and call-time limits.
/ Netflix got my money (and continues to get it) because they deliberately made a corporate decision to keep their support phone center in the US instead of outsourcing to another country. I may be only 1 guy, but I like to think my loyalty helps.
--Back in the day when Win7 SP1 came out, I read up on user experiences - and various people were posting things like SP1 slowed down their system, and did not offer any significant features as a worthwhile reason to update to it.
--You can also get around issues like old shared libs by shipping a statically-compiled binary. IIRC, Opera (browser) or somebody did this a few years back.
> Heck, make VT1 the kernel console, and VT2 to VT6 new type consoles. Then if you want the power of new type consoles, you just use one of VT2 to VT6, but if something is seriously fucked up, you can return to the old, featureless but rock stable kernel console on VT1.
--Now that's not a bad idea, I like that. I do something similar already - switch tty2-4 to mingetty, turn off all other tty consoles except tty1, and leave tty1 as regular getty.
--I tend to agree with "don't kill off the current TTY console code" - at least leave it as a failsafe -- but would really like to see multi-monitor separate console screens...;-)
--Yes - case in point: My cable went out yesterday. Cable company says earliest time we can get a tech out to your house is Friday. Went down and played Halo Wars to pass the time.
--Not possible if 720 REQUIRES an internet connection. Stupid, stupid, stupid... MS, DON'T DO THIS!!111one!
--Xtree Pro Gold was Teh Unbeatable file manager for DOS back in the day. For modern equipment, Midnight Commander does the job reasonably well (safest way to delete files, for one thing.) MC is also available for Cygwin.
Slashdot Mirror
--Say what now?
/ derp
--Not sure if trolling...
Corbomite Maneuver = Star Trek
Carbonite = Han Solo
--Dude, where have you been for the last decade or so? Look up Mark Hamill on IMDB - he's had tons of projects going on for years.
/ he's the voice of the Joker, for one thing
--Bah, almost all they have to do is put the plane on IPV6 and it will automatically be more secure, since no one is using it :-P
--The only automated system that I've really liked using is Walmart's prescription-refill phone service. It's dead easy.
--Aside from the occasional movie-ticket kiosk and maybe paying a bill by phone, literally EVERY OTHER TIME that I can think of, I'm pressing 0 on the phone menu or practially shouting "Operator!" to try and get to a human.
--The thing that a lot of so-called "modern" companies don't understand is that we DON'T want to talk to somebody with an 8-syllable name in India, we want somebody on the phone that is actually going to be able to **help us** in a polite and professional manner.
--Real Customer Service(TM) needs to make a comeback - and to do that, they need to stop paying CS reps peanuts - and soul-killing them in phone centers with crazy rules, authoritarian manglement, and call-time limits.
/ Netflix got my money (and continues to get it) because they deliberately made a corporate decision to keep their support phone center in the US instead of outsourcing to another country. I may be only 1 guy, but I like to think my loyalty helps.
--Slippery Jim DiGriz, is that you?? :b
--Somebody should write a sci-fi TV Series based on this map. I think it would be interesting ;-)
--Back in the day when Win7 SP1 came out, I read up on user experiences - and various people were posting things like SP1 slowed down their system, and did not offer any significant features as a worthwhile reason to update to it.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/17982/windows_7_service_pack_1_dont_install_it_yet
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/windows-7-service-pack-1-made-my-computer-slow/0d8d1373-4267-44ef-970d-39b0349748a9
--Even now, I would ONLY install SP1 after making a full system-image backup.
--Not seeing a downside... Indiana Jones does NOT ride "bitch" position on the motorcycle. They really messed that one up.
...Stuff that spatters.
" Well Bessie, I declare - I've never seen that kind of thing in all my life. I think I'll poop. "
" ...This town needs an enema. "
/ The Joker
Bloody stupid design, that. Obviously they've failed to take into account emergency scenarios - like this.
...and it's crazy shiznit like this that strengthens my belief that drive-by-wire on a CAR is NEVER going to be a good idea!
How's their support? I'm not impressed with DigitalOcean so far, both of their Suse images are broken after a simple ' zypper patch '...
Rule #1: CARDIO
Rule #2: Double Tap...
--You can also get around issues like old shared libs by shipping a statically-compiled binary. IIRC, Opera (browser) or somebody did this a few years back.
> Heck, make VT1 the kernel console, and VT2 to VT6 new type consoles. Then if you want the power of new type consoles, you just use one of VT2 to VT6, but if something is seriously fucked up, you can return to the old, featureless but rock stable kernel console on VT1.
--Now that's not a bad idea, I like that. I do something similar already - switch tty2-4 to mingetty, turn off all other tty consoles except tty1, and leave tty1 as regular getty.
--I tend to agree with "don't kill off the current TTY console code" - at least leave it as a failsafe -- but would really like to see multi-monitor separate console screens... ;-)
--O RLY? You can't run "screen" on a serial console?
/ please enlighten me if I'm wrong, see .sig
--Thank you. This guy had obviously good intentions, but bad execution of a good idea. You don't give away the only golden goose you have.
+1 Also acceptable.
--Yes - case in point: My cable went out yesterday. Cable company says earliest time we can get a tech out to your house is Friday. Went down and played Halo Wars to pass the time.
--Not possible if 720 REQUIRES an internet connection. Stupid, stupid, stupid... MS, DON'T DO THIS!!111one!
--Naaahhh... I've seen worse.
--All I can say is, for Half Life:Teh Movie, they better get Hugo Weaving to play the invulnerable Government Guy. Just sayin.
--Xtree Pro Gold was Teh Unbeatable file manager for DOS back in the day. For modern equipment, Midnight Commander does the job reasonably well (safest way to delete files, for one thing.) MC is also available for Cygwin.
For the true diehards, see here:
http://www.ztree.com/