I have had good luck with Joker.com. I had no problem transferring domain names away from NetSol and Register.com. There was one domain I no longer had access to, because I had moved, and never received the password. I probably could have spent hours on the phone, and sent in multiple faxes (I've gone that route before), but I had no problem doing a transfer with Joker.
I don't know what kind of extra services they offer; I've never needed any.
I am not blind, partially because I spent far more than I could afford on the best monitor that money could buy about 8 years ago. The NEC XP21. High refresh rates, durability of a mule. The monitor is a little dim now, and falling out of focus, but it did pretty well for being on most of the time. I spent a good bit on a video card at the time, too. The refresh rate was worth the cost.
Don't go cheap on the monitor. You will look at it whenever your computer is on. Your computer might get tweaked, changed, upgraded, but your monitor will remain the same. Spend more on this component than the rest of your system put together.
If I were buying now? Probably the widescreen Mac display. I would prefer to wait for the next generation, but that Mac display is much cheaper than my XP21 was.
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The plane was escorted by military aircraft to Key West, the hijackers surrendered. They probably just wanted to leave Cuba. It wouldn't be the first time.
As someone who was forced to evaluate Outlook without Exchange as a mail and calendar solution, I feel qualified to say one thing:
Never, ever, EVER trust anything to net folders.
It is an ugly, kludgy solution, and I seem to recall that even MS does not recommend its use.
Try taking two computers, setting them to check mail every few minutes, so you have some time to mess around with things. Assuming you have access to the mail queue on the server, deliver things out of order, or make a message or two disappear. Or even duplicate one. These things happen occasionally in real life. Watch what happens to your schedule.
This is the sort of problem databases are meant to solve, not mail clients.
So, where is the official pronunciation guide? How do you propose we say this out loud?
Can anyone, anywhere, explain why most people pronounce Linux as 'Linnix'? Either pronounce it the way Linus does, or take the anglicized version of Linus (Lie-Niss) and change the 's' to 'x'. That would leave us with Lee-noox, or Lie-Nix.
This is a serious question. Does anyone have a serious answer?
Actually, I don't troll on here, although some think I do from time to time. I promote Linux, it is prevelant on my resume, my side business uses Linux, etc. If I was any good at real programming, I would contribute. As it is, I help people I know with it, as well as helping them with Windows.
I just do not believe that people should assume all computers are Windows (or all Linux is Red Hat, for that matter). Doing so shows ignorance, and is fine if you don't have a computer, or are happy with Windows. But when you shell out $300, or $2000, or any amount of money for a consumer electronics device, you should have some idea what it is, and have nobody but yourself to blame if you don't.
VHS & Beta. LP & CD. 8 Track & Cassette. DVD-R/DVD-RAM/DVD-Whatever. Gas & Diesel. AA & AAA. 1/2" jack & 1/4" jack. Ethernet & Modem (if you've done end user support, you've seen that). All different standards, yet people seem to sort them out somehow. Except for that last one.
Ma Smith would laugh at me if I didn't use boiling water when I canned my tomatoes, mixed bleach and vinegar when cleaning, or forgot to water my garden and wondered why the plants died.
It takes some knowledge to be able to function in society. If you had never seen a TV, would you know what to do with it? Would you know to plug it in? If you did, how would you get any pictures on it? Most televisions don't come with antennas these days.
My digital camera takes AA batteries, and my 35mm camera takes a special lithium battery. My cell phone has a special battery, and my car takes a battery that doesn't look like any of the others. So if I go to the store and buy a battery, I need to know what kind.
Why are computers any different? If you don't bother to take the time to learn what to do with them, you have wasted your money.
Many people here are too young to remember the earlier days of personal computing. When a Commodore 64 with a tape drive was considered a luxury item. With Apple, Atari, Commodore, IBM, and others competing for the same (relatively) small market share, there were many options for those that wanted to buy a computer.
When I would walk to the local book store to look at the software (on a shelf with a box of floppy disks that cost more than some CPUs cost now), I would see different sections, with signs like Apple or Commodore or IBM. Most of them had the same games available, too.
Asking my mother for a new game for my birthday didn't involve going with her to the store, writing it down, or ending up with an Atari game for my C64. Without ever touching the computer, she knew it was a Commodore 64, just like I knew that my dad drove a GM station wagon, even though I wasn't allowed to drive it.
Every kid I knew with a computer was able to get the correct kind of software. The small computer lab that we somehow ended up with at my elementary school ended up with the correct software. I never even remember hearing of anyone that had any confusion about the type of computer they were using.
Now, some might say that computers are a commodity item, a mass market item, something that every home needs in the same room as the TV. I have no problem with that. I think it is great, as it will drive down prices for all of us. Let the masses have their Microtel computers.
But when they try to install Windows software on their shiny new computers, we should laugh at them. The same way that 'hillbillies', as people have called them, would laugh at you if you put the wrong fuel mixture in your chainsaw. Read and learn, or be a fool. There is no excuse for ignorance, and it doesn't take much brainwork to figure out what kind of operating system you are running. Read the fucking manual.
Ethernet is supposed to support all the machines on a LAN.
That is what switches are for. You don't need to share bandwidth with other computers on the LAN. If you have too much traffic between two computers, and are saturating the link to either of them, then you have a network design issue.
Rememeber this story from a couple months ago about reconstructing data from the blinking LEDs of modems... and remember that CNet story about reconstructing the display of a computer by using special hardware and the reflected glow of the monitor.? Well, now it seems that someone has figured out how to recreate Slashdot articles just by not checking to see if they have already been posted!!!
I take it your country has no traffic? Some countries do, you know. Us Americans sometimes like to sip coffee while we are zooming along at 2mph on the way to work.
I hear some people also like to purchase beverages from restaurants for later consumption.
I purchased an NEC MultiSync XP21 years and years ago. It was $2500 or so, way, WAAAAY out of my price range at the time. I thought at the time that not getting headaches and retaining my vision were worth the price.
Well, they were. Although it is a little dimmer than it used to be, I still use the monitor daily, at a high refresh rate, and my vision is still what it used to be. The only time I get eyestrain is when I am forced to work on smaller monitors, or on a system with a low refresh rate.
Which top 10 list are we talking about here? The top ten Outlook worms? Top 10 viruses stopped by antivirus programs? Top 10 trojans?
Code Red (and derivitaves) were a major pain in the ass. My servers don't run any MS software, but Code Red still affected me. It kept hitting my ports, over and over and over again. That sounds like a minor annoyance, until you are using more than eth0. Think virtual hosting.
I also was lucky enough to have a number of clients that were using Cisco 678 DSL modems. Anyone remember that? Code Red locked them up. Until a patch was applied, they locked up every time they got a Code Red request. I knew of some people that would go and reset the Cisco, and be down again before they got back to their desk.
It may not have been the typical user spread virus, but it made my #1 last year, because I'm not stupid enough to use Outlook.
So, don't leave us in the dark. How do you extend game play beyond 12 months? If I theoretically had a copy of the 64 game, and I theoretically had a disk/hex editor, what would I need to change?
Just out of curiousity, I bought one of these for a few bucks at a computer show last year. I had the field test codes for my phone (Samsung SCH-3500, Sprint PCS) and a wide open area outside the computer show to do my testing.
It did improve reception a very small amount, but only in some cirsumstances. End result, I could walk up and down the stairs in my house without the call dropping, and I could stand about 2 feet further from the window than before (reception at that house was awful). I've since moved on to a better phone, and I don't lose calls except when the network drops out completely (one of the local towers here does that for a few seconds every couple of minutes; everyone with a Sprint phone loses the signal completely).
So are they great? No. Will they let you talk in an elevator? Probably not. But I did have a few less dropped calls, and that was worth $6 or so.
USQWest says they will never bring DSL to our neighborhood -- we can't get better than 26,000 bps dialup!
You probably have fiber between yourself and the phone company. Let me guess - 26.4k is the fastest you receive, even with a 56k modem? If that is the case, you will not be able to get DSL until:
- Qwest replaces the fiber with copper (never)
- Someone installs a remote DSLAM (likely)
The RDSLAMS are being tested now. Depending on where you live, you might see one within a couple of years.
I'm posting a reply to this because I tried to moderate it as 'insightful', but/. registered it as overrated. Hopefully this will cancel that moderation.
Do you really carry around your social security card? Why? I haven't even seen my in ten years, can't think of one place I've ever needed it. Anyone that would accept that as an ID might as well take a Radio Shack Battery Club card.
And do people in the US carry around their passports? Expecting to leave the country with no notice??? I'm serious here. I carry around a driver's license when I drive, a credit card, insurance card (required to drive in some states), and some money.
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I don't know what kind of extra services they offer; I've never needed any.
I am not blind, partially because I spent far more than I could afford on the best monitor that money could buy about 8 years ago. The NEC XP21. High refresh rates, durability of a mule. The monitor is a little dim now, and falling out of focus, but it did pretty well for being on most of the time. I spent a good bit on a video card at the time, too. The refresh rate was worth the cost.
Don't go cheap on the monitor. You will look at it whenever your computer is on. Your computer might get tweaked, changed, upgraded, but your monitor will remain the same. Spend more on this component than the rest of your system put together.
If I were buying now? Probably the widescreen Mac display. I would prefer to wait for the next generation, but that Mac display is much cheaper than my XP21 was.
Huh???
The plane was escorted by military aircraft to Key West, the hijackers surrendered. They probably just wanted to leave Cuba. It wouldn't be the first time.
Don't know about the other news items.
Can you give more information about the hacks? I would very much like to be able to play 18 or 24 rounds. Thanks.
I am looking at getting one of these myself. Anyone tried it?
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A Cab? Where was Roblimo?
As someone who was forced to evaluate Outlook without Exchange as a mail and calendar solution, I feel qualified to say one thing:
Never, ever, EVER trust anything to net folders.
It is an ugly, kludgy solution, and I seem to recall that even MS does not recommend its use.
Try taking two computers, setting them to check mail every few minutes, so you have some time to mess around with things. Assuming you have access to the mail queue on the server, deliver things out of order, or make a message or two disappear. Or even duplicate one. These things happen occasionally in real life. Watch what happens to your schedule.
This is the sort of problem databases are meant to solve, not mail clients.
Time to get modded into oblivion...
So, where is the official pronunciation guide? How do you propose we say this out loud?
Can anyone, anywhere, explain why most people pronounce Linux as 'Linnix'? Either pronounce it the way Linus does, or take the anglicized version of Linus (Lie-Niss) and change the 's' to 'x'. That would leave us with Lee-noox, or Lie-Nix.
This is a serious question. Does anyone have a serious answer?
Mom: Okay, a number came up
You: Can you read it to me?
Mom: 122 period 123 period 124 period 125
Doesn't everyone know of a web page that shows you your IP? Alternatively, if you run a web server, you can just check the log file.
For the PHP challenged:
$ip= getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"); echo "$ip";
Actually, I don't troll on here, although some think I do from time to time. I promote Linux, it is prevelant on my resume, my side business uses Linux, etc. If I was any good at real programming, I would contribute. As it is, I help people I know with it, as well as helping them with Windows.
I just do not believe that people should assume all computers are Windows (or all Linux is Red Hat, for that matter). Doing so shows ignorance, and is fine if you don't have a computer, or are happy with Windows. But when you shell out $300, or $2000, or any amount of money for a consumer electronics device, you should have some idea what it is, and have nobody but yourself to blame if you don't.
VHS & Beta. LP & CD. 8 Track & Cassette. DVD-R/DVD-RAM/DVD-Whatever. Gas & Diesel. AA & AAA. 1/2" jack & 1/4" jack. Ethernet & Modem (if you've done end user support, you've seen that). All different standards, yet people seem to sort them out somehow. Except for that last one.
Ma Smith would laugh at me if I didn't use boiling water when I canned my tomatoes, mixed bleach and vinegar when cleaning, or forgot to water my garden and wondered why the plants died.
It takes some knowledge to be able to function in society. If you had never seen a TV, would you know what to do with it? Would you know to plug it in? If you did, how would you get any pictures on it? Most televisions don't come with antennas these days.
My digital camera takes AA batteries, and my 35mm camera takes a special lithium battery. My cell phone has a special battery, and my car takes a battery that doesn't look like any of the others. So if I go to the store and buy a battery, I need to know what kind.
Why are computers any different? If you don't bother to take the time to learn what to do with them, you have wasted your money.
Many people here are too young to remember the earlier days of personal computing. When a Commodore 64 with a tape drive was considered a luxury item. With Apple, Atari, Commodore, IBM, and others competing for the same (relatively) small market share, there were many options for those that wanted to buy a computer.
When I would walk to the local book store to look at the software (on a shelf with a box of floppy disks that cost more than some CPUs cost now), I would see different sections, with signs like Apple or Commodore or IBM. Most of them had the same games available, too.
Asking my mother for a new game for my birthday didn't involve going with her to the store, writing it down, or ending up with an Atari game for my C64. Without ever touching the computer, she knew it was a Commodore 64, just like I knew that my dad drove a GM station wagon, even though I wasn't allowed to drive it.
Every kid I knew with a computer was able to get the correct kind of software. The small computer lab that we somehow ended up with at my elementary school ended up with the correct software. I never even remember hearing of anyone that had any confusion about the type of computer they were using.
Now, some might say that computers are a commodity item, a mass market item, something that every home needs in the same room as the TV. I have no problem with that. I think it is great, as it will drive down prices for all of us. Let the masses have their Microtel computers.
But when they try to install Windows software on their shiny new computers, we should laugh at them. The same way that 'hillbillies', as people have called them, would laugh at you if you put the wrong fuel mixture in your chainsaw. Read and learn, or be a fool. There is no excuse for ignorance, and it doesn't take much brainwork to figure out what kind of operating system you are running. Read the fucking manual.
That is what switches are for. You don't need to share bandwidth with other computers on the LAN. If you have too much traffic between two computers, and are saturating the link to either of them, then you have a network design issue.
Rememeber this story from a couple months ago about reconstructing data from the blinking LEDs of modems... and remember that CNet story about reconstructing the display of a computer by using special hardware and the reflected glow of the monitor.? Well, now it seems that someone has figured out how to recreate Slashdot articles just by not checking to see if they have already been posted!!!
I take it your country has no traffic? Some countries do, you know. Us Americans sometimes like to sip coffee while we are zooming along at 2mph on the way to work.
I hear some people also like to purchase beverages from restaurants for later consumption.
I purchased an NEC MultiSync XP21 years and years ago. It was $2500 or so, way, WAAAAY out of my price range at the time. I thought at the time that not getting headaches and retaining my vision were worth the price.
Well, they were. Although it is a little dimmer than it used to be, I still use the monitor daily, at a high refresh rate, and my vision is still what it used to be. The only time I get eyestrain is when I am forced to work on smaller monitors, or on a system with a low refresh rate.
Sometimes things like this are worth the price.
Which top 10 list are we talking about here? The top ten Outlook worms? Top 10 viruses stopped by antivirus programs? Top 10 trojans?
Code Red (and derivitaves) were a major pain in the ass. My servers don't run any MS software, but Code Red still affected me. It kept hitting my ports, over and over and over again. That sounds like a minor annoyance, until you are using more than eth0. Think virtual hosting.
I also was lucky enough to have a number of clients that were using Cisco 678 DSL modems. Anyone remember that? Code Red locked them up. Until a patch was applied, they locked up every time they got a Code Red request. I knew of some people that would go and reset the Cisco, and be down again before they got back to their desk.
It may not have been the typical user spread virus, but it made my #1 last year, because I'm not stupid enough to use Outlook.
Stop making sense. This is Slashdot, not the real world. Everything net related should be subsidized or provided for free.
So, don't leave us in the dark. How do you extend game play beyond 12 months? If I theoretically had a copy of the 64 game, and I theoretically had a disk/hex editor, what would I need to change?
Just out of curiousity, I bought one of these for a few bucks at a computer show last year. I had the field test codes for my phone (Samsung SCH-3500, Sprint PCS) and a wide open area outside the computer show to do my testing.
It did improve reception a very small amount, but only in some cirsumstances. End result, I could walk up and down the stairs in my house without the call dropping, and I could stand about 2 feet further from the window than before (reception at that house was awful). I've since moved on to a better phone, and I don't lose calls except when the network drops out completely (one of the local towers here does that for a few seconds every couple of minutes; everyone with a Sprint phone loses the signal completely).
So are they great? No. Will they let you talk in an elevator? Probably not. But I did have a few less dropped calls, and that was worth $6 or so.
You probably have fiber between yourself and the phone company. Let me guess - 26.4k is the fastest you receive, even with a 56k modem? If that is the case, you will not be able to get DSL until:
- Qwest replaces the fiber with copper (never)
- Someone installs a remote DSLAM (likely)
The RDSLAMS are being tested now. Depending on where you live, you might see one within a couple of years.
I'm posting a reply to this because I tried to moderate it as 'insightful', but /. registered it as overrated. Hopefully this will cancel that moderation.
Do you really carry around your social security card? Why? I haven't even seen my in ten years, can't think of one place I've ever needed it. Anyone that would accept that as an ID might as well take a Radio Shack Battery Club card.
And do people in the US carry around their passports? Expecting to leave the country with no notice??? I'm serious here. I carry around a driver's license when I drive, a credit card, insurance card (required to drive in some states), and some money.