This damn well better be supported in the BIOS
on
Dell Dropping The Floppy
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Now I'll be honest that I haven't looked into whether or not USB solid state storage is standard across the board, but if they're doing away with floppies then I had better be able to boot from my USB pen/key/dongle storage device if & when needed by simply changing the boot order.
If I want/need to run some low level hardware diagnostics (IBM's Drive Fitness Test tool anyone?) or flash to a new BIOS revision or update the firmware on a SCSI controller - a floppy is basically the only way to go - especially with downloadable updates that REQUIRE you to create a floppy from them.
If the only way I can update these parts is by disassembling the now crippled machines & putting their components into a machine that does have a floppy to update them, then replace (x 250 machines...) - Dell can count on number of enterprise customers nixing them from the list of potential hardware vendors. Don't limit my options - period.
Nah, by that time the kid would have been recorded by the mandatory 'Citizen Lifestyle Compliance' cameras installed through private residences by the Federal Government.
So technically it's the government who's producing this unauthorized fanfiction.
So let Lucas & US Gov't duke it out in court - by that time Lucas will have enough $ from royalties to make it an interesting showdown.
//ct
Re:Screenshot Mirror
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SedSokoban
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· Score: 4, Funny
*DING!*DING!*DING! - We have a Winner!
For a 2kb.png that's the
worst attempt at cheap karma this week.
//ct
A wise man once said...
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SedSokoban
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· Score: 5, Funny
1) add one part Nevada
2) sprinkle with underground radioactive waste
3) bake for two hours in the presence of Kevin Bacon
Let me save you the wait - the resulting giant cannibal worms will be suckers for TNT & the last one will have to be tricked into burrowing off of a canyon ledge.
(Yeah I know - calling Tremors art is stretching it a little... ok alot)
Exposure here one/. aside, watch for just how much press this, as well
as the recent XP hole, get's in the "mainstream" mailout periodical press.
As a SysaAdmin (who never explicitly subscribed) to any of the 3 CMP/techweb
publications I now receive weekly/biweekly/monthly or the electronic C|net
shite I'm now eternally a "customer" of, it's pretty obvious who pays the
bills for the (largely) waste of bandwidth reviews they provide.
Wake up... they aren't going to bite they hands that feeds them - particularly
MS or Oracle.
While you/I/every other jaded IT employee with half a brain can be critical
of this two faced advertising driven BS, the individual with a tight grip
on the purse strings for IT expenditures is getting the same mailings &
treating them as dogma - because he doesn't know/care that he's being fed
crap with a fancy ribbon around it.
Until the push-periodicals are no longer driven by big bucks advertising
contracts & therefor biased coverage of these products, IT "managers"
will have a steady supply of bullshit benchmarks & reviews IN WRITING
to reinforce & perpetuate their decision making process.
By comparison, Jupiter exerts a wobble on the sun of 40 feet per second. Earth, being much lighter, exerts a wobble of about 4 inches per second, Fischer said.
It doesn't matter how scientific the context is, the word "wobble" just makes me giggle like a fool.
"The paint started bubbling, then burned away, leaving the black
anodized magnesium alloy. ("It's an alloy that is resistent to burning,"
the voice of the soon-to-be-ex-NeXT-employee came back to me.)"
"On Tuesday, May 29, 2001 The Honourable Judge Mr. Pierre Tessier of the Québec Superior Court dismissed the Crowns appeal in the case of Al Gregory who was acquitted by Mr. Justice Sanfacon of the Quebec Provincial Court last year under section 9 (1) C of the RC Act. Mr. Justice Pierre Tessier completely understood the issues in this appeal and stated very clearly that as DirecTV® are not a "lawful Distributor" in Canada and should not be broadcasting here, that Signal was in the "PUBLIC DOMAIN"".
DirecTV has the FBI in their back pocket & has for some time now. Larry Rissler, vice president of signal integrity for DirecTV, is a former FBI Special Agent - this is public fact, not some "X-Files" paranoia.
Back near the end of May, two of the larger companies that manufacture & sell Smart Card programmers/Card Repair Systems & various paraphenelia (WhiteViper & Vector) were raided & had their customer lists seized. The initial response from the DTV hacking community was that unless you were a big purchaser/middleman, you had nothing to fear. Now it looks like they may use this info in much more targeted manner. If I was a customer of either of these companies & ended up circumventing DTV's protection, I'd be awfully worried about someone knocking at my door.
Bastille is a set of Perl scripts that walk you through the process of securing/'hardening' your system. Very much like a wizard, it asks you if you want to do 'A' with an quick explanation of why you should an when you shouldn't do so.
Mandrake 8.0 does include a GUI front end for it, however it does have a text mode 'menu-ish' system if you don't want the Graphics.
Re:Toasted my former messages
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Hushmail 2.0
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· Score: 1
Hate to reply to my own post, but...
Found in the FAQ a few layers in...
-------
"I have upgraded to version 2 but cannot access my old email messages. Why?"
Throughout the migration period, which will last about three weeks from launch, Hush will be transferring your email to a new, faster, even more robust storage system. During this time, old email messages may not be available. Don't worry; they are safe and will be transferred back into your email account. Premium Account users and extremely frequent users will be given preference during this process. At no point in this process is encrypted email ever unencrypted.
--------
Now I guess I can only wait & hold my breath for a yet to be determined period of time. Unfortunately, I have yet to experience a 'freemail' upgrade that hasn't irrepairably lost archived messages.
-ct
Toasted my former messages
on
Hushmail 2.0
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· Score: 1
Much like the Canada.com fiasco last year - I just logged in, went through their 'conversion' process, and found the expected 5-10 pieces of SPAM which I got rid of.
Then I noticed that ALL of my previously saved/archived messages are gone. They aren't in another folder - I've checked 3 times.
*** If you have a Hushmail account that you haven't 'migrated' to 2.0 - I warn you strongly against this until they fix things. ***
I had membership emails & transaction records that appear to be gone for good now. I've email their support, I'm not expecting much in terms of assistance.
While it may not have EVERY registrar out there, it does provide a centralized resource for many of the choices out there - with comparisons of each registrar's pricing & contractual wording.
Actually, the more likely scenario is that to receive tax breaks for capital losses incurred they'de need to prove that they had 'X' number of devices that they physically destroyed and could not resell or capitalize on in the future. I believe this was the line of thinking when Motorola announced that they'de be burning up the Iridium satellite system by de-orbiting them.
It wasn't a case of 'If we can't use this, we'll be damned if anybody does' - but it's value on paper was likely being amortized over it's lifespan - so shorten it's lifespan drastically.
The message below was taken from a "DSS-hacking" message board, posted by pitou's author 'nerg343'
==========
GNU - error
It has been brought to my attention that pitou - the linux emu - has a GNU license included.
pitou was never intended to be released with the GNU license. The license was included in error from a development template I use. pitou will only be distributed in binary form.
I have notified the sites distributing pitou to pull the beta 2 version and replace it with the beta 2b version I have provided them. Beta 2b has the correct licensing information.
nerg343
=====
Go ahead and debate the legal semantics of a GPL mis-release, but it appears that it may never have been GPL'ed?
Slashdot Mirror
Now I'll be honest that I haven't looked into whether or not USB solid state storage is standard across the board, but if they're doing away with floppies then I had better be able to boot from my USB pen/key/dongle storage device if & when needed by simply changing the boot order.
//ct
If I want/need to run some low level hardware diagnostics (IBM's Drive Fitness Test tool anyone?) or flash to a new BIOS revision or update the firmware on a SCSI controller - a floppy is basically the only way to go - especially with downloadable updates that REQUIRE you to create a floppy from them.
If the only way I can update these parts is by disassembling the now crippled machines & putting their components into a machine that does have a floppy to update them, then replace (x 250 machines...) - Dell can count on number of enterprise customers nixing them from the list of potential hardware vendors. Don't limit my options - period.
But that's just my opinion.
Next stop... Serpentor
Pssstttt. Darth Vader is Luke's father.
//ct
Nah, by that time the kid would have been recorded by the mandatory 'Citizen Lifestyle Compliance' cameras installed through private residences by the Federal Government.
//ct
So technically it's the government who's producing this unauthorized fanfiction.
So let Lucas & US Gov't duke it out in court - by that time Lucas will have enough $ from royalties to make it an interesting showdown.
*DING!*DING!*DING! - We have a Winner!
For a 2kb .png that's the
worst attempt at cheap karma this week.
//ct
To quote Chris Rock in Bigger and Blacker,
//ct
"Just because I can drive a car with my feet - doesn't make it a good fucking idea".
1) add one part Nevada
//ct
2) sprinkle with underground radioactive waste
3) bake for two hours in the presence of Kevin Bacon
Let me save you the wait - the resulting giant cannibal worms will be suckers for TNT & the last one will have to be tricked into burrowing off of a canyon ledge.
(Yeah I know - calling Tremors art is stretching it a little... ok alot)
As a SysaAdmin (who never explicitly subscribed) to any of the 3 CMP/techweb publications I now receive weekly/biweekly/monthly or the electronic C|net shite I'm now eternally a "customer" of, it's pretty obvious who pays the bills for the (largely) waste of bandwidth reviews they provide. Wake up... they aren't going to bite they hands that feeds them - particularly MS or Oracle.
While you/I/every other jaded IT employee with half a brain can be critical of this two faced advertising driven BS, the individual with a tight grip on the purse strings for IT expenditures is getting the same mailings & treating them as dogma - because he doesn't know/care that he's being fed crap with a fancy ribbon around it.
Until the push-periodicals are no longer driven by big bucks advertising contracts & therefor biased coverage of these products, IT "managers" will have a steady supply of bullshit benchmarks & reviews IN WRITING to reinforce & perpetuate their decision making process.
-ct
Now if I could just figure out what size clothes my wife fits, it might be a Happy Holiday after all!!
Small... always pick small.
//ct
It may be a neat gadget, but this lady on their page is having way too much fun with it.
If I ever reach a point where this phone can give me that much joy, I'll have bigger issues to address in my life.
//ct
Don't tell me I'm the only one who built up a metropolis only to save it then unleash my choice of natural disaster again & again.
Godzilla & a twister going head to head was always entertaining for about 3 minutes...
//ct
By comparison, Jupiter exerts a wobble on the sun of 40 feet per second. Earth, being much lighter, exerts a wobble of about 4 inches per second, Fischer said.
It doesn't matter how scientific the context is, the word "wobble" just makes me giggle like a fool.
//ct
Easy does it!
This comment has been submitted already, 277205 hours , 7 minutes ago. No need to try again.
Nice to see the slashcode is as tight as ever
//ct
from the article...
"The paint started bubbling, then burned away, leaving the black
anodized magnesium alloy. ("It's an alloy that is resistent to burning,"
the voice of the soon-to-be-ex-NeXT-employee came back to me.)"
//ct
Whelp, although it's sans the cubefire.gif, I'm sure he'd prefer that you hit the Google cache at:
Google's cached page
//ct
A regional DSL provider is just a TAD less "known" than the Global presence that the industry leaders you've mentioned.
-ct
Even if they try, precedence has already been established in the Quebec Superior Court that DirecTV's signal is "public domain".
DirecTV signal is public domain in Canada
"On Tuesday, May 29, 2001 The Honourable Judge Mr. Pierre Tessier of the Québec Superior Court dismissed the Crowns appeal in the case of Al Gregory who was acquitted by Mr. Justice Sanfacon of the Quebec Provincial Court last year under section 9 (1) C of the RC Act. Mr. Justice Pierre Tessier completely understood the issues in this appeal and stated very clearly that as DirecTV® are not a "lawful Distributor" in Canada and should not be broadcasting here, that Signal was in the "PUBLIC DOMAIN"".
DirecTV has the FBI in their back pocket & has for some time now. Larry Rissler, vice president of signal integrity for DirecTV, is a former FBI Special Agent - this is public fact, not some "X-Files" paranoia.
Back near the end of May, two of the larger companies that manufacture & sell Smart Card programmers/Card Repair Systems & various paraphenelia (WhiteViper & Vector) were raided & had their customer lists seized. The initial response from the DTV hacking community was that unless you were a big purchaser/middleman, you had nothing to fear. Now it looks like they may use this info in much more targeted manner. If I was a customer of either of these companies & ended up circumventing DTV's protection, I'd be awfully worried about someone knocking at my door.
-ct
Bastille is a set of Perl scripts that walk you through the process of securing/'hardening' your system. Very much like a wizard, it asks you if you want to do 'A' with an quick explanation of why you should an when you shouldn't do so.
http://www.bastille-linux.org/
Mandrake 8.0 does include a GUI front end for it, however it does have a text mode 'menu-ish' system if you don't want the Graphics.
Hate to reply to my own post, but...
Found in the FAQ a few layers in...
-------
"I have upgraded to version 2 but cannot access my old email messages. Why?"
Throughout the migration period, which will last about three weeks from launch, Hush will be transferring your email to a new, faster, even more robust storage system. During this time, old email messages may not be available. Don't worry; they are safe and will be transferred back into your email account. Premium Account users and extremely frequent users will be given preference during this process. At no point in this process is encrypted email ever unencrypted.
--------
Now I guess I can only wait & hold my breath for a yet to be determined period of time. Unfortunately, I have yet to experience a 'freemail' upgrade that hasn't irrepairably lost archived messages.
-ct
Much like the Canada.com fiasco last year - I just logged in, went through their 'conversion' process, and found the expected 5-10 pieces of SPAM which I got rid of.
Then I noticed that ALL of my previously saved/archived messages are gone. They aren't in another folder - I've checked 3 times.
*** If you have a Hushmail account that you haven't 'migrated' to 2.0 - I warn you strongly against this until they fix things. ***
I had membership emails & transaction records that appear to be gone for good now. I've email their support, I'm not expecting much in terms of assistance.
-ct
http://www.domainnamebuyersguide.com/
While it may not have EVERY registrar out there, it does provide a centralized resource for many of the choices out there - with comparisons of each registrar's pricing & contractual wording.
-ct
Alright,
P -IBM-AI-Software.html
Despite the fact that I'm invariably going to be modded down into trolldom, here's the 'trick' for those new to the nytimes page.
Simply change the URL to reflect 'archives' rather than 'www'.
Seeing as how it's a Monday, I'll even include the link below.
It's not magic, I won't even make it a real link. Learn it and let's let the subject die already.
http://archives.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/A
(remove the space in the 'AP -IBM..' part - yes, I previewed this post, but the Slashcode keeps adding that space regardless of format)
-ct
Actually, the more likely scenario is that to receive tax breaks for capital losses incurred they'de need to prove that they had 'X' number of devices that they physically destroyed and could not resell or capitalize on in the future. I believe this was the line of thinking when Motorola announced that they'de be burning up the Iridium satellite system by de-orbiting them.
It wasn't a case of 'If we can't use this, we'll be damned if anybody does' - but it's value on paper was likely being amortized over it's lifespan - so shorten it's lifespan drastically.
//ct
The message below was taken from a "DSS-hacking" message board, posted by pitou's author 'nerg343'
==========
GNU - error
It has been brought to my attention that pitou - the linux emu - has a GNU license included.
pitou was never intended to be released with the GNU license. The license was included in error from a development template I use. pitou will only be distributed in binary form.
I have notified the sites distributing pitou to pull the beta 2 version and replace it with the beta 2b version I have provided them. Beta 2b has the correct licensing information.
nerg343
=====
Go ahead and debate the legal semantics of a GPL mis-release, but it appears that it may never have been GPL'ed?
-ct