Windows 2000, however, still allows your copy of XP or 2000 to be a "free" Terminal Services CAL (and it is permitted under the Windows 2000 Server EULA.)
If you're already running Windows 2000 or Windows XP then what is the point in connecting to a Terminal Server? The only time I've ever been interested in wanting to connect to a Windows Terminal Server is from a Mac or Linux desktop in order to run Windows programs faster than I can in VirtualPC or VMWare and I'd have to buy a CAL to do that.
It has benefited U.S. firms in industries including
steel and pasta, with one of the largest beneficiaries being Timken
Co., an Ohio maker of bearings, which collected about $40 million last
year.
And let's not forget Ohio is also the state that handed the Presidency to George W. Bush this past November. Coincidence? I think not.
When a property turns unprofitable they usually sit on it for years, hoping it becomes profitable if they hold it off the market long enough.
They're already gearing up to rape us on DVD sales. I'd love to own TNG on DVD, but at over $110/season it isn't going to happen. Paramount needs to get realistic and charge more like $30-$40 for a season.. it's been off the air for over 10 years for god's sake.
Or, for that matter, you could file on paper, for cheaper. In an ideal world, you'll be sufficiently under-withheld that you don't have to worry about getting a refund anyway, removing the only rational reason to e-file.
I hate writing checks to the government to pay taxes. I'd much rather they withhold too much and I just get a refund in the spring so I don't have to worry about it. Besides, I'd just blow the extra money anyway if I had it... it's a forced savings plan. This way I don't even think twice about the money they're taking out.. it's like getting a month's salary as a bonus check around tax season. I guess I should probably try to adjust it so they aren't withholding an extra 1/12th of my yearly salary though.
If the White House burned down and it was discovered that it would only cost a little more to build a new White House over in Arlington then to rebuild it at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which would you choose?
Arlington? I'd move it to a much nicer neighborhood... Washington, D.C. is too crime infested. Maybe move it to the midwest to secure it again terrorist submarine attacks.
Anything to convince me to take my g3 700 640mb iBook to Tiger in the meantime?
MacOS X 10.4 Tiger will be the most advanced operating system of all time and include features that were only dreamed about in lesser platforms. Suffice it to say, anyone that doesn't upgrade to Tiger on the day of release is a fool... a damn fool. I'm getting set to order my new Powerbook on April 29th so I'm guarenteed it's loaded with Tiger, because as I said before, MacOS X 10.4 Tiger will be the best operating system of all time.
One hardware standard would mean you could switch back and forth more easily, though, so maybe they don't want that. Activation fees only go so far in deterring someone from switching without discouraging new signees.
But they are in fact discouraging new customers like me because I'm on the fence. I just wish they'd agree on a standard communications format and let the radios support that single format. Then if you want to listen to Opie and Anthony you subscribe to that channel from XM. If you want Howard Stern, you subscribe to that channel from Sirius. Perhaps it'd mean outsourcing the system to a third company and becoming purely content-creation companies, but that's how satellite television works and it seems to be doing pretty well.
Yes, I realize this is pie-in-the-sky thinking and I'm fully aware that these companies make their money by bundling popular channels with sub-par channels to fill out the offering. It's just wishful thinking on the part of a "consumer", don't mind me.:-)
There's nothing wrong with "plain" Debian. I run it on everything I have and it works great. The problem is running stable on anything more is a complete waste of time since it's nearly 3 years out of date. Unless you REALLY like Mozilla 1.0, you're going to have to run testing or unstable. Sarge seems to work fine, but Debian really needs to get off their behinds and get a new stable release out there more often.
I realize the point is to provide stability and not upgrade willy-nilly like Mandrake or some of the other distributions, but for crying out loud, if your last release was more than 18 months ago you really need to get one out the door. I don't consider the minor updates they've done to Woody to be sufficient... they need to make Sarge stable pretty soon or they'll lose even more people to Ubuntu and other Debian-lookalikes.
It's rather embarassing anymore even suggesting installing Debian Woody on anything at work since it's such a joke. We're going with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 instead which actually has a sane upgrade schedule. So, I'm not meaning to downplay the contributions of the Debian community, I love it to death at home when running testing or unstable, but suggesting a business run such out-of-date software on their production servers is absolutely ludicrous.
India already dominates the outsourced help desk market. Cheap crappy Chinese hardware and sub-par Indian tech support should work well together to dominate the global market.:-/
I personally hope they merge. I'm torn between shows I'd like to hear on both networks but I'm not about to get two seperate radios and pay two seperate subscription fees per month. It'd be like HBO and Showtime only being available on DirecTV and Cinemax and TMC are only available on Dish.
Nasa has bandwidth problems because they have a flash spash page, and video on their homepage! I mean, seriously. Before they go crawling to the corporations begging for handouts, perhaps they should slim down their site a bit.
The NASA Portal (www.nasa.gov) site is hosted on Speedera and is not on a NASA network at all. This is also consequently where all the centers' subdomain web servers go to these days too. For example www.ksc.nasa.gov redirects to www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy.
As for the Flash animation crap, yes it is definitely annoying. They need some cookie or something that remember if you already viewed a flash intro and skip it if you go back in your browser. It's annoying to hear the same intro 5-10 times in a session. But hey, that's what they wanted.. more interactivity and something more interesting for the viewing public.
I would say, if they give you grief about something as basic as this, that you should move ISPs. I know not everyone has a lot of choices, but those who do shouldn't put up with crap.
That's why I pay more for DSL service through Speakeasy rather than go through SBC directly or the local cable provider who both have these ridiculous terms in their terms of service. I was just throwing it out there as a point about bittorrent... has anyone been harassed by their ISP for using it for legitimate purposes and had that bit of their TOS cited as the reason they were in trouble?
This has been a long time coming! It's not that hard to implement but can add so much security and stability!
I don't understand this comment. NTFS filesystem ACLs are much more secure than the simplistic standard UNIX filesystem permissions. Of all the things to bash Windows over, I never thought the filesystem ACLs was one of them.
Leave your torrent clients open after you're finished.
What if your ISP prohibits you from acting as a server? Many ISPs have that in their terms of service. Using Bittorrent opens you up as a public server basically. Better be safe than sorry and just use HTTP or FTP to download the ISOs if your ISP has this in their TOS.
So why, WHY are we launching people into space with a program older than I am?
Because all the programs that were slated to replace the shuttle have been scrapped for various economic and political reasons. We need a vehicle that can take off from an airfield and fly into space without complicated and expensive launch mechanisms to support it for space travel to ever become safer and more commonplace. Look at SpaceShipOne for an excellent start to what NASA SHOULD be concentrating on. Don't blast the thing into orbit on enormous dangerous rockets, fly into the upper atmosphere on wings and then use rockets to boost into space. Unfortunately NASA's single-stage-to-orbit program has long since been axed. It's a pity really.
The title's more than a little misleading as well. I thought everyone had known about the movie since the dawn of time - the only news here is the speculation about the director.
The only people that would have known about it are the kind of guys that would stand in line for a Star Wars movie a month before it opens... at the wrong theater.
I mean hell, I watched Transformers as a kid and loved it, but why on earth do you assume a 30 year old man would keep up on a cartoon, much less that it's apparently going to be made into a live action movie? That was news to me. How the heck are they going to do live-action robots transforming... lots of CGI?
It will be wandering the Kuiper belt like the Voyagers in 2020.
That's 15 years away! What the heck takes so long for a probe to get to the edge of the solar system? In Star Trek a shuttle could traverse that distance in a matter of minutes.
What I don't understand is why Canada doesn't just become part of the USA and get it over with. They're basically like a bunch of US states up their anyway. Don't something like 90% of Canadian citizens live within 50 miles of the US border? It'd be much more convenient to both sides if we allowed them to become part of the United States.
(F.) Skyscrapers in Spain burn and stand for two or more weeks, because they are built better and stronger than the tallest building in the United States.
I would think jet fuel burns considerably hotter than paper and other material you'd find in a normal high-rise fire. I'm not suggesting there wasn't a design flaw, but the structure did suffer some pretty extensive damage by having a 737 crash a hole into it.
I personally enjoy taking trips to the US, but this makes it much harder, and I'm certain this scenario will be repeated.
Hey, it goes both ways. I used to love going over to Niagara Falls in Ontario for a weekend and visiting (let's be honest, the Canadian side of the falls is a nicer tourist area), but it looks like I'll never be able to visit there again since I don't really feel like going through the hassle of getting a passport for a weekend visit (I've never travelled to any countries other than Canada). I hear Detroit has a casino now so I imagine they'll be taking a lot of the business away from Windsor too. No more weekend trips to gamble across the border.:-(
Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.
Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.
I think you got those messed up. We used to cross into Canada for cheap shopping and liquor since the Canadian dollar was so weak against the American dollar. No so much these days unfortunately. Plus duty free stores!!
It must vary. It shows a completed road relocation and new freeway onramp near my workplace that was done just last spring or summer. Hey, I can see my house from heeeeeeeerrrrreeeee.
Ohio is in bad shape from one end to the other, there is no denying this.
The problem is it doesn't sound like you're willing to accept doing menial IT work for a bank, law firm, or insurance company for the rest of your life. Those are the kinds of jobs computer people will be able to find in Ohio. All the fun, exciting research and development is done somewhere else in a far away fantasy land.:-/
I love my country, but I fear my government as I should. >
You shouldn't fear your government, you should respect it. If you don't then you need to work harder to make your government into something you can respect. Don't just sit idly by and expect someone else to fix it. If people had that attitude women wouldn't be allowed to vote and blacks would still be sitting in the back of the bus.
Frankly, short of gratuitously downloading porn and leaving dirty copies of the Mozilla source tree lying about, how does one fill up the kind of space that one of these drives would make available (without running a server of some sort, of course)?
Easy, video. My MythTV box records at about 1.7GB per hour in mpeg-2 on the quality settings I have chosen (720x480, about 6Mbps IIRC) so it didn't take too long to eat through my 600GB RAID-5 setup I installed in it. I've experimented with cutting back to 480x480 and a lower bit rate and get about 1GB per hour, but I'm not completely satisfied with the quality so I've had to resort to deleting shows I would have rather archived. I don't have time to archive them to DVD so that's not an option BTW.
Now, this is all just TV which, frankly if it all died I couldn't care less if I lost it. Imagine if you were archiving DV from a video camera with video of your kids. That's about a dozen gigs per hour.
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If you're already running Windows 2000 or Windows XP then what is the point in connecting to a Terminal Server? The only time I've ever been interested in wanting to connect to a Windows Terminal Server is from a Mac or Linux desktop in order to run Windows programs faster than I can in VirtualPC or VMWare and I'd have to buy a CAL to do that.
And let's not forget Ohio is also the state that handed the Presidency to George W. Bush this past November. Coincidence? I think not.
They're already gearing up to rape us on DVD sales. I'd love to own TNG on DVD, but at over $110/season it isn't going to happen. Paramount needs to get realistic and charge more like $30-$40 for a season.. it's been off the air for over 10 years for god's sake.
I hate writing checks to the government to pay taxes. I'd much rather they withhold too much and I just get a refund in the spring so I don't have to worry about it. Besides, I'd just blow the extra money anyway if I had it... it's a forced savings plan. This way I don't even think twice about the money they're taking out.. it's like getting a month's salary as a bonus check around tax season. I guess I should probably try to adjust it so they aren't withholding an extra 1/12th of my yearly salary though.
Arlington? I'd move it to a much nicer neighborhood... Washington, D.C. is too crime infested. Maybe move it to the midwest to secure it again terrorist submarine attacks.
MacOS X 10.4 Tiger will be the most advanced operating system of all time and include features that were only dreamed about in lesser platforms. Suffice it to say, anyone that doesn't upgrade to Tiger on the day of release is a fool... a damn fool. I'm getting set to order my new Powerbook on April 29th so I'm guarenteed it's loaded with Tiger, because as I said before, MacOS X 10.4 Tiger will be the best operating system of all time.
But they are in fact discouraging new customers like me because I'm on the fence. I just wish they'd agree on a standard communications format and let the radios support that single format. Then if you want to listen to Opie and Anthony you subscribe to that channel from XM. If you want Howard Stern, you subscribe to that channel from Sirius. Perhaps it'd mean outsourcing the system to a third company and becoming purely content-creation companies, but that's how satellite television works and it seems to be doing pretty well.
Yes, I realize this is pie-in-the-sky thinking and I'm fully aware that these companies make their money by bundling popular channels with sub-par channels to fill out the offering. It's just wishful thinking on the part of a "consumer", don't mind me. :-)
I realize the point is to provide stability and not upgrade willy-nilly like Mandrake or some of the other distributions, but for crying out loud, if your last release was more than 18 months ago you really need to get one out the door. I don't consider the minor updates they've done to Woody to be sufficient... they need to make Sarge stable pretty soon or they'll lose even more people to Ubuntu and other Debian-lookalikes.
It's rather embarassing anymore even suggesting installing Debian Woody on anything at work since it's such a joke. We're going with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 instead which actually has a sane upgrade schedule. So, I'm not meaning to downplay the contributions of the Debian community, I love it to death at home when running testing or unstable, but suggesting a business run such out-of-date software on their production servers is absolutely ludicrous.
India already dominates the outsourced help desk market. Cheap crappy Chinese hardware and sub-par Indian tech support should work well together to dominate the global market. :-/
I personally hope they merge. I'm torn between shows I'd like to hear on both networks but I'm not about to get two seperate radios and pay two seperate subscription fees per month. It'd be like HBO and Showtime only being available on DirecTV and Cinemax and TMC are only available on Dish.
The NASA Portal (www.nasa.gov) site is hosted on Speedera and is not on a NASA network at all. This is also consequently where all the centers' subdomain web servers go to these days too. For example www.ksc.nasa.gov redirects to www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy.
As for the Flash animation crap, yes it is definitely annoying. They need some cookie or something that remember if you already viewed a flash intro and skip it if you go back in your browser. It's annoying to hear the same intro 5-10 times in a session. But hey, that's what they wanted.. more interactivity and something more interesting for the viewing public.
That's why I pay more for DSL service through Speakeasy rather than go through SBC directly or the local cable provider who both have these ridiculous terms in their terms of service. I was just throwing it out there as a point about bittorrent... has anyone been harassed by their ISP for using it for legitimate purposes and had that bit of their TOS cited as the reason they were in trouble?
I don't understand this comment. NTFS filesystem ACLs are much more secure than the simplistic standard UNIX filesystem permissions. Of all the things to bash Windows over, I never thought the filesystem ACLs was one of them.
What if your ISP prohibits you from acting as a server? Many ISPs have that in their terms of service. Using Bittorrent opens you up as a public server basically. Better be safe than sorry and just use HTTP or FTP to download the ISOs if your ISP has this in their TOS.
Because all the programs that were slated to replace the shuttle have been scrapped for various economic and political reasons. We need a vehicle that can take off from an airfield and fly into space without complicated and expensive launch mechanisms to support it for space travel to ever become safer and more commonplace. Look at SpaceShipOne for an excellent start to what NASA SHOULD be concentrating on. Don't blast the thing into orbit on enormous dangerous rockets, fly into the upper atmosphere on wings and then use rockets to boost into space. Unfortunately NASA's single-stage-to-orbit program has long since been axed. It's a pity really.
The only people that would have known about it are the kind of guys that would stand in line for a Star Wars movie a month before it opens... at the wrong theater.
I mean hell, I watched Transformers as a kid and loved it, but why on earth do you assume a 30 year old man would keep up on a cartoon, much less that it's apparently going to be made into a live action movie? That was news to me. How the heck are they going to do live-action robots transforming... lots of CGI?
That's 15 years away! What the heck takes so long for a probe to get to the edge of the solar system? In Star Trek a shuttle could traverse that distance in a matter of minutes.
What I don't understand is why Canada doesn't just become part of the USA and get it over with. They're basically like a bunch of US states up their anyway. Don't something like 90% of Canadian citizens live within 50 miles of the US border? It'd be much more convenient to both sides if we allowed them to become part of the United States.
I would think jet fuel burns considerably hotter than paper and other material you'd find in a normal high-rise fire. I'm not suggesting there wasn't a design flaw, but the structure did suffer some pretty extensive damage by having a 737 crash a hole into it.
Hey, it goes both ways. I used to love going over to Niagara Falls in Ontario for a weekend and visiting (let's be honest, the Canadian side of the falls is a nicer tourist area), but it looks like I'll never be able to visit there again since I don't really feel like going through the hassle of getting a passport for a weekend visit (I've never travelled to any countries other than Canada). I hear Detroit has a casino now so I imagine they'll be taking a lot of the business away from Windsor too. No more weekend trips to gamble across the border. :-(
Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.
I think you got those messed up. We used to cross into Canada for cheap shopping and liquor since the Canadian dollar was so weak against the American dollar. No so much these days unfortunately. Plus duty free stores!!
It must vary. It shows a completed road relocation and new freeway onramp near my workplace that was done just last spring or summer. Hey, I can see my house from heeeeeeeerrrrreeeee.
The problem is it doesn't sound like you're willing to accept doing menial IT work for a bank, law firm, or insurance company for the rest of your life. Those are the kinds of jobs computer people will be able to find in Ohio. All the fun, exciting research and development is done somewhere else in a far away fantasy land.
You shouldn't fear your government, you should respect it. If you don't then you need to work harder to make your government into something you can respect. Don't just sit idly by and expect someone else to fix it. If people had that attitude women wouldn't be allowed to vote and blacks would still be sitting in the back of the bus.
Easy, video. My MythTV box records at about 1.7GB per hour in mpeg-2 on the quality settings I have chosen (720x480, about 6Mbps IIRC) so it didn't take too long to eat through my 600GB RAID-5 setup I installed in it. I've experimented with cutting back to 480x480 and a lower bit rate and get about 1GB per hour, but I'm not completely satisfied with the quality so I've had to resort to deleting shows I would have rather archived. I don't have time to archive them to DVD so that's not an option BTW.
Now, this is all just TV which, frankly if it all died I couldn't care less if I lost it. Imagine if you were archiving DV from a video camera with video of your kids. That's about a dozen gigs per hour.