...Not everybody. I still have two users that have legacy (ie. OLD AND CRAPPY) applications that were a hack to work on XP SP 0-1. I'm just not feeling like pressing my luck right now.
Of course, the people who do run SP 2 have reported exactly ZERO problems. True, I did have to reinstall Office on one lady's machine, but she also had the worst spyware/adware collection I've ever seen, so that probably had something to do with it.
Bottom line? In my experience, SP 2 is not better or worse than any other MS Service Pack. Yes, there are programs that are problematic, but mostly it works just fine. I mean, the worst issue was the pop-up blocker in IE preventing Peoplesoft from making an Excel spreadsheet, which was easily remedied by making the Peoplesoft web-server a trusted site for everybody via Active Directory Group Policy. Piece of cake.
...like a polite, but damning letter to the President of a company spelling out the sequence of events, your attempted steps at resolution, and his employees responses (or non-responses.) Make sure the letter explains that the next communication will be a summons and a subpeona for records of JD dealings with you.
If the company is a legitimate business and you've slipped through the cracks (or were ignored by peons,) a senior manager can generally ask/force/cajole somebody into making your problem a priority. If they won't (or if the company is willfully defrauding people) then you should follow through on your threat, sue them in small claims court, and ask the judge to order them to release your domains to another registrar, refund your money, and pay court costs.
Very few people (outside of actual hardened criminals) are willing to ignore a court order. You might find some crumudgeonly fuck out there who would do on "the principle that the gubmint shouldn't tell me how ta' run ma' bidness!", but that seems unlikely...
My code of conduct for hot chicks and supermodels is out this morning as well. Chief on the list?
1) Stop by
2) Strip to a bathing suit
3) Bring me cocktails.
More details on this exciting, innovative new series of guidelines as they develop! (Okay, exciting for me...)
I ordered a mini last night. Will i be able to get them to send a tiger upgrade or will that be another $100.
I'd call them today, before your machine ships. If they say "no" then cancel your order and re-order. Or pick it up at the store. Don't even think about paying full-price.
...But the "April Fool's Day" crap is old before 9 A.M. Then I grumble something about a "dead horse" and pledge to ignore Slashdot the rest of the day.
Odd, my SUS Synchronization log showed this for this morning's attempted sync:
Errors:
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1: Failed to download from URL 'http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/upda te/v3-19990518/cabpool/WindowsServer2003-KB889101- SP1-x86-ENU_6e6d2db278226bf7a257f86d8b5e056.exe'. (Error 0x8007000D: The data is invalid.) - WindowsServer2003-KB889101-SP1-x86-ENU_6e6d2db2782 26bf7a257f86d8b5e056.exe
...so I'm note sure what you're talking about, exactly. Did you check your Sync log before posting?
They pulled this stuff on Microsoft a few years back, and as a consequence contractors don't GET to stay there for extended periods, they are essentially kicked out and forced to find other employment after a rather short amount of time (a year or eighteen months or something?). I worry about what this means to the rest of the industry.
Lets go back a step... While it is true that lawsuits like these make the contracting business less-fair to contractors, I think there is a deeper injustice here in the first place.
Why doesn't it enter into the discussion that the company wants (and needs) your expertise permanently on a full-time basis, but doesn't want to pay the freight on the perks they give to permanent employees? Why is this inherent cheapness allowed to slide by as "acceptable?" The company is getting all of the benefits of a FTE without cost of benefits and accounting for taxes witheld. In olden times, we called this "Having your cake and eating it too."
Perhaps we should be cracking down on employers who are using FTContractors in place of FTEmployees to dodge their responsibilities under the tax code instead of blaming people who are simply seeking legal protection under existing law. If the law itself is the problem, lets have a discussion about the merits of changing it.
...the VOIP providers will simply setup all accounts to default to not receiving international calls, and filter those calls using publicly available public IP-block info. Because although they can move thier Vonage phone # to another country and nobody here can do anything about it, what they can't change is the country assignment of their ISPs block of IPs.
They would then implement a whitelisting service so that callers who weren't in the called party's address book would get a recording directing them to answer a series of questions (correctly) to send a whitelist approval request to the subscriber's personal web-page with a voice message attached.
YOu could even include a "Permanently ban and report voice spam" feature if a tele-scammer managed to answer your questions correctly and leave you an advertising message in your whitelist approval voicemail.
Or we could just rig the IP telephones with a cattle-prod-like function, so that the tele-scammer receives a searing 10,000 volt shock through their headset when they start pitching viagra.
Excluding perfectly good servers because they don't have a particular feature that's needed so seldom the odds have to be discussed using scientific notation: stupid.
Good for you. Our electrical service isn't what I would call perfect here... Another way to say that is that it sucks. Unfortunately, we're sort of married to this facility because of large investments made here far in the past, so moving to an area with cleaner electrical service isn't an option right now.
Yeah, we have UPS, surge/brownout protection and all that, but some power supplies have been ruined. Help ticket records show it's "only" been three power-supplies in two years, but the three that failed were: Peoplesoft DB server, Peoplesoft application server, and public web-server. Since all of our business relies on those three, having a hot auxiliary available is quite smart, since any down-time racks up lost sales for us by the minute.
The only thing I would describe as stupid is the attitude that what works perfectly for you will work perfectly for everybody else in perpetuity throughout the universe, and anybody who has a different set of problems to addres must be an idiot.
Let me put it this way: If making sure your company can continuously make money (to ensure payment of your salary) is stupid, then I'm proud to be the president of the Stupid Club. Where I'm from, though, it is called "Doing your job."
...They'll be enterprise-class 4-way XServes. Hopefully with dual power-supply available.
Really, these two features are the last things keeping Xserves out of my datacenter... (Our corporate IT policy is that all servers have dual-PS.) You can't imagine how much it sucks to have the Macs for the design team saving data to Windows servers, because Microsoft's AFP implementation blows, and so does Apple's SMB implementation. I know you can't see, but I'm doing the happy dance now.
If I were Lucas and I saw this kind of whiny drivel from people who expect high art out of a blast-em-up series of films, I'd run it into the ground just for spite. I'd make Jar Jar Luke's real father and have Anakin adopt him at some point. Imagine the rash of nerd suicides *that* would set off!
Although I'm sure you were trying to be contrary, your post actually reinforces what I said.
This is the exact type of bitter vitriol that Lucas is showing his fans. He certainly has the right to say "Its my movie, get over it" but I also have the right to denounce the man as a bitter old crank....And by the way, movies are art, whether you know it or not.
This is his art. He should be able to create/modify whatever he pleases. This is how he expresses himself (how much money he makes off of it should not matter).
There is such a thing as being perceived as a complete and total sell-out who is looking to milk every last dime from his one good friggin' idea in life. You're right when you say that money and art shouldn't mix... But these days they sadly do. Any art work that is significantly popular or influential enough can bring great wealth... Or, to the person who holds the rights, anyway. But I want to tell you, I don't think its abou the money, at least, not entirely.
Lucas is a flaming narcissist: He is totally pre-occuppied with himself--in this case as he sees himself through his past works, and he doesn't care who hurts in the course of his self-preoccupation as a result of a (possibly unrealized) low self-esteem. He's probably seen a shrink for a million years who never got him that far.
Of course, IANACP... (I Am Not A Clinical Psychologist,) I'm just saying he's a sharp guy. Why not make up a new story?
The artist needs to learn to stop editing his work once it has been released to the public. Why can't Lucas accept that his work has given so many people so much joy and take pride?
Who doesn't look at their past and want to go back and handle things differently, with all your years of experience, knowledge, and skills. Yet you can't. And if you try, you live your life in an Uncle Rico-esque spiral of failure and never grow as a person. I'm not saying he doesn't have the right to change the movies, I'm saying he's a pompous ego-maniac for wanting to doctor the past.
make sure you give a really full explanation on how to use this meta-data FS well.
Flash forward five years... I predict most users will have most of their files categorized as "My Files" or somesuch.
Or maybe I've been inhaling exhaust fumes again...
Recent events have forced me to examine and then re-examine my security arrangements. I'm the new admin for a small publishing concern and I'm playing catch up right now. Before I got hired, a lot of admin work was left undone. So I want to do a good job, and all this talk of data theft has me spooked...
I've inherited a mess. A total mess. Employees with default passwords (that never expire,) vendors from years long gone by with active accounts, some used recently... (Yeah, I've already disabled them.) The list just goes on.
My point is, when you read a story like this you feel bad for how screwed the admin(s) will be (especially if they have family) for a moment.
And then you get to work and double-check that you're not next in line for a public de-pantsing.
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...Not everybody. I still have two users that have legacy (ie. OLD AND CRAPPY) applications that were a hack to work on XP SP 0-1. I'm just not feeling like pressing my luck right now.
Of course, the people who do run SP 2 have reported exactly ZERO problems. True, I did have to reinstall Office on one lady's machine, but she also had the worst spyware/adware collection I've ever seen, so that probably had something to do with it.
Bottom line? In my experience, SP 2 is not better or worse than any other MS Service Pack. Yes, there are programs that are problematic, but mostly it works just fine. I mean, the worst issue was the pop-up blocker in IE preventing Peoplesoft from making an Excel spreadsheet, which was easily remedied by making the Peoplesoft web-server a trusted site for everybody via Active Directory Group Policy. Piece of cake.
...like a polite, but damning letter to the President of a company spelling out the sequence of events, your attempted steps at resolution, and his employees responses (or non-responses.) Make sure the letter explains that the next communication will be a summons and a subpeona for records of JD dealings with you.
If the company is a legitimate business and you've slipped through the cracks (or were ignored by peons,) a senior manager can generally ask/force/cajole somebody into making your problem a priority. If they won't (or if the company is willfully defrauding people) then you should follow through on your threat, sue them in small claims court, and ask the judge to order them to release your domains to another registrar, refund your money, and pay court costs.
Very few people (outside of actual hardened criminals) are willing to ignore a court order. You might find some crumudgeonly fuck out there who would do on "the principle that the gubmint shouldn't tell me how ta' run ma' bidness!", but that seems unlikely...
My code of conduct for hot chicks and supermodels is out this morning as well. Chief on the list? 1) Stop by 2) Strip to a bathing suit 3) Bring me cocktails. More details on this exciting, innovative new series of guidelines as they develop! (Okay, exciting for me...)
Yeah...Its like a car wreck. You know you shouldn't look but, well, it is right there, and you've already sat through the traffic jam anyway...
...But the "April Fool's Day" crap is old before 9 A.M. Then I grumble something about a "dead horse" and pledge to ignore Slashdot the rest of the day.
This, of course, led me to believe it was an April Fool's Day prank... You know, a "leet" amount of storage...
Lets go back a step... While it is true that lawsuits like these make the contracting business less-fair to contractors, I think there is a deeper injustice here in the first place.
Why doesn't it enter into the discussion that the company wants (and needs) your expertise permanently on a full-time basis, but doesn't want to pay the freight on the perks they give to permanent employees? Why is this inherent cheapness allowed to slide by as "acceptable?" The company is getting all of the benefits of a FTE without cost of benefits and accounting for taxes witheld. In olden times, we called this "Having your cake and eating it too."
Perhaps we should be cracking down on employers who are using FTContractors in place of FTEmployees to dodge their responsibilities under the tax code instead of blaming people who are simply seeking legal protection under existing law. If the law itself is the problem, lets have a discussion about the merits of changing it.
...the VOIP providers will simply setup all accounts to default to not receiving international calls, and filter those calls using publicly available public IP-block info. Because although they can move thier Vonage phone # to another country and nobody here can do anything about it, what they can't change is the country assignment of their ISPs block of IPs.
They would then implement a whitelisting service so that callers who weren't in the called party's address book would get a recording directing them to answer a series of questions (correctly) to send a whitelist approval request to the subscriber's personal web-page with a voice message attached.
YOu could even include a "Permanently ban and report voice spam" feature if a tele-scammer managed to answer your questions correctly and leave you an advertising message in your whitelist approval voicemail.
Or we could just rig the IP telephones with a cattle-prod-like function, so that the tele-scammer receives a searing 10,000 volt shock through their headset when they start pitching viagra.
Personally, I like the second one better.
Good for you. Our electrical service isn't what I would call perfect here... Another way to say that is that it sucks. Unfortunately, we're sort of married to this facility because of large investments made here far in the past, so moving to an area with cleaner electrical service isn't an option right now.
Yeah, we have UPS, surge/brownout protection and all that, but some power supplies have been ruined. Help ticket records show it's "only" been three power-supplies in two years, but the three that failed were: Peoplesoft DB server, Peoplesoft application server, and public web-server. Since all of our business relies on those three, having a hot auxiliary available is quite smart, since any down-time racks up lost sales for us by the minute.
The only thing I would describe as stupid is the attitude that what works perfectly for you will work perfectly for everybody else in perpetuity throughout the universe, and anybody who has a different set of problems to addres must be an idiot.
Let me put it this way: If making sure your company can continuously make money (to ensure payment of your salary) is stupid, then I'm proud to be the president of the Stupid Club. Where I'm from, though, it is called "Doing your job."
Not really, no. Dual power supply is one of the most basic hardware failsafe's you can have on a real enterprise class server.
Has it ever occurred to you that server administration outside your bedroom might be a completely different animal than inside?
...They'll be enterprise-class 4-way XServes. Hopefully with dual power-supply available.
Really, these two features are the last things keeping Xserves out of my datacenter... (Our corporate IT policy is that all servers have dual-PS.) You can't imagine how much it sucks to have the Macs for the design team saving data to Windows servers, because Microsoft's AFP implementation blows, and so does Apple's SMB implementation. I know you can't see, but I'm doing the happy dance now.
Although I'm sure you were trying to be contrary, your post actually reinforces what I said.
This is the exact type of bitter vitriol that Lucas is showing his fans. He certainly has the right to say "Its my movie, get over it" but I also have the right to denounce the man as a bitter old crank.
...duh.
Non-open-source "free" software has come with lots of ugly strings for many years now in the Windows world.
Nothing to see here, move along.
There is such a thing as being perceived as a complete and total sell-out who is looking to milk every last dime from his one good friggin' idea in life. You're right when you say that money and art shouldn't mix... But these days they sadly do. Any art work that is significantly popular or influential enough can bring great wealth... Or, to the person who holds the rights, anyway. But I want to tell you, I don't think its abou the money, at least, not entirely.
Lucas is a flaming narcissist: He is totally pre-occuppied with himself--in this case as he sees himself through his past works, and he doesn't care who hurts in the course of his self-preoccupation as a result of a (possibly unrealized) low self-esteem. He's probably seen a shrink for a million years who never got him that far.
Of course, IANACP... (I Am Not A Clinical Psychologist,) I'm just saying he's a sharp guy. Why not make up a new story?
The artist needs to learn to stop editing his work once it has been released to the public. Why can't Lucas accept that his work has given so many people so much joy and take pride?
Who doesn't look at their past and want to go back and handle things differently, with all your years of experience, knowledge, and skills. Yet you can't. And if you try, you live your life in an Uncle Rico-esque spiral of failure and never grow as a person. I'm not saying he doesn't have the right to change the movies, I'm saying he's a pompous ego-maniac for wanting to doctor the past.
...clean elections. Now, if only I could get my Republican neighbors to understand that a pile of cash != speech.
...I am reporting that most (more than 85%) of gamers have fantasized about Lara Croft and a bucket of chicken.
Film at 11.
Recent events have forced me to examine and then re-examine my security arrangements. I'm the new admin for a small publishing concern and I'm playing catch up right now. Before I got hired, a lot of admin work was left undone. So I want to do a good job, and all this talk of data theft has me spooked...
I've inherited a mess. A total mess. Employees with default passwords (that never expire,) vendors from years long gone by with active accounts, some used recently... (Yeah, I've already disabled them.) The list just goes on.
My point is, when you read a story like this you feel bad for how screwed the admin(s) will be (especially if they have family) for a moment.
And then you get to work and double-check that you're not next in line for a public de-pantsing.