For something relatively small (in the police's eyes, at least) the point of reporting a crime that did occur is not necessarily to get the item returned, but to get it on record that the crime occurred. The police map patrols based on the distribution of crime in the area, so if you want cops around to get that stolen laptop back the next time it happens you'd better make sure they know to be there. Obviously if one person fails to report a crime it's not a big deal, but if lots do, it screws up the aggregate data (see voting).
The problem with the relying on the automatic update service is that if they don't know they're running it, they probably don't know it updates at 3:00 AM. Most non-techies I know turn their computers off at night, which makes it real hard to download things then.
I'm currently interning with Schlumberger, an oilfield services company, and while I have seen a few toughbooks, they're being used as servers for remote realtime log viewing. The engineers on hand all have regular old thinkpads. The biggest hazard I've seen to computers on these sites (summertime on Alaska's North Slope) by far is dust. The oil companies are really emphasizing safety these days, trying to fix their rather maligned image. Because of that, you're not going to see fumes unless something is going really wrong. And the laptops are rarely on the rig floor anyway. At worst, they're in the doghouse behind a closed, theoretically airtight door.
Kinda like Spoofstick? Admittedly Spoofstick does it in big colored text beside the address bar, but that's not as scary, right? Although it is highly irritating that this updated version for Firefox 1.5 is not available from the Firefox extensions page.
Windows does have a task scheduler. I haven't found it to be nearly as useful as cron, but it will run batch files so you can set that to run in the evening automatically.
I don't know about anything else, but I at least am guilty of voting for an incumbent solely because he was very senior and therefore could get pork barrel legislation. It wasn't the best thing for the direction of the country, but at least it helped my district.
Two options. If it's just the spending money you don't have you don't like, most debit cards can be used as credit cards these days. If it's the being traced you don't like you can also buy temporary cards so it's basically like a gift card. When the money runs out, the account disappears and you get a new one.
Yup I've heard of Bell Labs. My dad used to work there. I've heard stories of inventing things like redial and putting them on the shelf until someone else invents it and tries to steal customers. Then they will put it in place and say "See, there's no reason to switch."
Clearly you don't spend much time with college students. When you're in a dorm for nine months, home for three months, in a different dorm the next nine months, in an apartment somewhere working the following summer, and so on, the only way to keep in touch is a cell phone (or VOIP for friends abroad). I have a land line in my room. I've answered it twice from people looking for my roommates, never called from it, and I don't have a clue what the number is.
And conveniently forgetting that the music they listened to growing up is still mostly on RIAA labels. Lynyrd Skynyrd's on MCA, Led Zeppelin's on Atlantic Records, the Rolling Stones' older stuff is Decca, etc.
I know this is Slashdot, but did you finish TFS? Note especially the phrases "readers of the female persuasion" (there are at least two or three of us) and "I have a husband."
Word exported html is frequently invalid, I've found. I belong to a couple of Yahoo Groups used mostly to upload files. Policy is to do it in HTML so you don't have to open another program, but the majority of the people on there wouldn't know HTML if it walked up and bit them on the ass, so they write in Word and export it. I end up staring at source code about 10-15% of the time if I'm in Firefox. IE will interpret it, but it doesn't run so well on Ubuntu.
Nah, Florida's one of those contradictions. The farther south you go the more Yankees you'll find. Central Florida and the Panhandle are Southern, but while coastal Florida might be in the south, it's not in the South.
There's a difference between a user that can't be running linux, which is what you're arguing about, and a user that won't be running linux, which is what the GP said. For whatever reason, be it fear or laziness or desire to play games, most users won't be running linux. I agree they could, but that's not the point here.
(btw, its a bit too hard(like more than 10 minutes of thinking) to get wmv files to work with linux - depriving a geek of his porn/warez is not a good way to curry his favor)
God forbid I should get between a geek and his porn, but where does the warez come into this? They distributing those in wmv now too?
The Explain tab for Turn Off Autoplay in the Group Policy Editor says at the bottom it does not disable autoplay for music CDs. I don't know for sure, since I rarely boot into Windows anymore, but wouldn't that mean the setting is useless in this particular case?
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For something relatively small (in the police's eyes, at least) the point of reporting a crime that did occur is not necessarily to get the item returned, but to get it on record that the crime occurred. The police map patrols based on the distribution of crime in the area, so if you want cops around to get that stolen laptop back the next time it happens you'd better make sure they know to be there. Obviously if one person fails to report a crime it's not a big deal, but if lots do, it screws up the aggregate data (see voting).
The problem with the relying on the automatic update service is that if they don't know they're running it, they probably don't know it updates at 3:00 AM. Most non-techies I know turn their computers off at night, which makes it real hard to download things then.
I'm currently interning with Schlumberger, an oilfield services company, and while I have seen a few toughbooks, they're being used as servers for remote realtime log viewing. The engineers on hand all have regular old thinkpads. The biggest hazard I've seen to computers on these sites (summertime on Alaska's North Slope) by far is dust. The oil companies are really emphasizing safety these days, trying to fix their rather maligned image. Because of that, you're not going to see fumes unless something is going really wrong. And the laptops are rarely on the rig floor anyway. At worst, they're in the doghouse behind a closed, theoretically airtight door.
claiming Macs cost 5000+ grand each
You've got to admit $5 million is a pretty expensive computer for a consumer, no matter what kind of upgrades it's got.
Kinda like Spoofstick? Admittedly Spoofstick does it in big colored text beside the address bar, but that's not as scary, right? Although it is highly irritating that this updated version for Firefox 1.5 is not available from the Firefox extensions page.
Windows does have a task scheduler. I haven't found it to be nearly as useful as cron, but it will run batch files so you can set that to run in the evening automatically.
This is Slashdot. Of course the original poster is male.
I don't know about anything else, but I at least am guilty of voting for an incumbent solely because he was very senior and therefore could get pork barrel legislation. It wasn't the best thing for the direction of the country, but at least it helped my district.
Two options. If it's just the spending money you don't have you don't like, most debit cards can be used as credit cards these days. If it's the being traced you don't like you can also buy temporary cards so it's basically like a gift card. When the money runs out, the account disappears and you get a new one.
Yup I've heard of Bell Labs. My dad used to work there. I've heard stories of inventing things like redial and putting them on the shelf until someone else invents it and tries to steal customers. Then they will put it in place and say "See, there's no reason to switch."
Clearly you don't spend much time with college students. When you're in a dorm for nine months, home for three months, in a different dorm the next nine months, in an apartment somewhere working the following summer, and so on, the only way to keep in touch is a cell phone (or VOIP for friends abroad). I have a land line in my room. I've answered it twice from people looking for my roommates, never called from it, and I don't have a clue what the number is.
And conveniently forgetting that the music they listened to growing up is still mostly on RIAA labels. Lynyrd Skynyrd's on MCA, Led Zeppelin's on Atlantic Records, the Rolling Stones' older stuff is Decca, etc.
My parents are paying for my training right now. I'm still in college.
I know this is Slashdot, but did you finish TFS? Note especially the phrases "readers of the female persuasion" (there are at least two or three of us) and "I have a husband."
Stress lowers the immune system, making you more susceptible to the bacterial infection.
Thirded.
At least it's not Thread.
LGPL code in the rootkit (lame) which was obviously spread without source code or a copy of the license
Word exported html is frequently invalid, I've found. I belong to a couple of Yahoo Groups used mostly to upload files. Policy is to do it in HTML so you don't have to open another program, but the majority of the people on there wouldn't know HTML if it walked up and bit them on the ass, so they write in Word and export it. I end up staring at source code about 10-15% of the time if I'm in Firefox. IE will interpret it, but it doesn't run so well on Ubuntu.
Nah, Florida's one of those contradictions. The farther south you go the more Yankees you'll find. Central Florida and the Panhandle are Southern, but while coastal Florida might be in the south, it's not in the South.
There's a difference between a user that can't be running linux, which is what you're arguing about, and a user that won't be running linux, which is what the GP said. For whatever reason, be it fear or laziness or desire to play games, most users won't be running linux. I agree they could, but that's not the point here.
God forbid I should get between a geek and his porn, but where does the warez come into this? They distributing those in wmv now too?
The Explain tab for Turn Off Autoplay in the Group Policy Editor says at the bottom it does not disable autoplay for music CDs. I don't know for sure, since I rarely boot into Windows anymore, but wouldn't that mean the setting is useless in this particular case?
The correct name of the song everyone refers to as "Teenage Wasteland" is "Baba O'Reilly".
Ext2IFS reads and writes to ext2 drives in windows, and ext3 is backwards compatible, so it writes to those too. It's worked fairly well for me.