Tax info has personal interest to me: Yesterday I was looking up tax information for my entire neighborhood. It IS useful to see which houses could potentially "ripe" for a deal for me to snatch up. Granted, it hasn't happened yet, but I have a vision of purchasing my entire neighborhood for a "re-engineered" community in an older neighborhood (built in the late 50s/60s). My neighborhood is decent now, but should I gain a majority control of it, I can make it even better.
You may not agree with my reasoning, but at the same time I shouldn't see your sales price, a prospective buyer should have tools available to see what the value is. (Or, for example, that the taxes on the house fluctuated, say, from $2400 7 years ago to $3700 now. That makes a big difference on a decision of where to live).
You've obviously never heard of a company called "Novell".
Simple example of how different they are:
Give a person read on VOLUME_A:\USERDATA\LOCATION\DEPARTMENT\SOMETHING\SHARE at the "SHARE" folder and they can't even see ANYTHING except that.
Using AD (NTFS rather, but since its all one "suite" and the permissions are given to domain users) you're looking at SHARE_A, SHARE_B, SHARE_C, SHARE_D
Then in SHARE_A you can see USERDATA, DISTRIBUTION, SOFTWARE, ADMINSONLY, then under USERDATA the user can see LOCATION1, LOCATION2, LOCATION3, then under department they can see DEPARTMENT_A, DEPARTMENT_B, etc.
Just a small example. eDirectory + Zenworks is far greater than AD With GPO
How much I pay in taxes, what kind of car I drive, where I live, my numbers and e-mails, all of this is important and private information. Your taxes are public information, and should be public information, in my opinion. I do agree with you, however, that it is silly that people can pull up your financial reports like that. You are entitled, by law, to receiving 1 "Free" credit report per year per credit agency (In the US). While I think this is bs - it should be available anytime for free - at least it is there.
A bit OT, but yeah: at $200 for the full system I'd by this guy if it had an ITX-sized case. Hell, some mini-ITX boards are $100+ themselves. For a full system at $200? Heck yeah. I'm wanting to do a lot of embedded work but price has been a major concern for me. (Smoothwall based firewall/routers come to mind)
What, you back up everything? I don't back up my media because it is stuff I can easily get again. It exists out on the void (aka the internet) somewhere. If I need it, I can find it.
Once I switched to that mentality (its cheaper for me to wait 1-2 hours/days/whatever than it is for me to spend the time to back up the TB's of data I go through each month) my backup size went down to less than 100mb/week (family photos, business documents, etc)
my mp3 player had this problem: It was 512mb internal...I used it for a few months (only transferred songs three times in bulk loads) and all of the sudden it was 488mb. grr...
Benefits of owning a house? We've got nearly 1 acre of land between hardcore suburbia (houses every 6 ft) and Tacoma, WA. The good news is that we have a yard we can enjoy (its like our very own park), fruit/berries, I have a wood shop, a large garage, and the best benefit of all: My wife and I don't have to worry about being loud during those special moments;)
First, make sure your IR sources don't confuse the wiimote. Example: Opening my drapes on the window behind the TV on a warm, sunny day, made the wiimote useless.
Second, set the proper height for the "sensor" bar in the Wii console itself. It does make a difference, especially if you have a large TV
Third, make sure your batteries are properly charged. Don't wait for the warning to go to red. When it gets to 1 bar, put the batteries in the recharger.
The "IR Pollution" is the biggest factor affecting the performance of your wiimote, in addition to distance. If you're standing 20ft away, you may wish to get a separate wireless IR emitter ($6 on amazon)that you can mount somewhere closer in your room.
huh? From Wii to HDTV? Theres a $800 difference there:)
Unless you get a Samsung 50" 720p DLP from BestBuy for $899 and receive a $100 discount to NFLShop.com
(Sorry for the plug, but after spending 3 weeks on backorder with Circuit City for the same TVs and receiving CRAP customer service, BestBuy deserves the plug for hooking me up for the same [better, really] price).
Its slow to load, the interface is clunky, web page rendering is funky (even though it passes ACID2, I don't give a damn. I want pages to show up "correctly" automagically). It doesn't have a great "quirks" mode for rendering. It is bloated. On the Wii especially it performs terribly and wastes so much memory the wii quickly runs out (only having 64mb available).
Nope. If it is your only choice, use it. Thats what I do for my nintendo wii. But I assure you, there are many better browsers for PC/*nix out there. Dare I say, IE is even one of them. Opera is terrible.
Thats not why the "public" was shocked or how it was portrayed in the media. "They" were shocked because of his sexual acts and the lie to the public, not to the grand jury, to cover it up.
Untrue. The cable/telcos will ALL do it because they have monopolies in their respective areas (at least here in the US). There is no competition - there is only collusion.
I live in a suburban area of 150,000 people (6 miles east from Tacoma, WA: Thats about 30 miles south of Seattle, WA) and let me tell you what: There are areas here that still can't get DSL or Cable. And the DSL we have is 1.5down/256k Up. Comcast(ugh....yes I'm stuck with them) is 6down/640k up. There is no way in a few years that is going to be remedied. I also find ith ard to believe that the distribution companies will be able to handle millions of users downloading 50gb/hr without some sort of P2P. With upload speeds are what they are...
Wow. Check out this new feature of Windows Vista! Microsoft engineers have thought of a brand new concept called symbolic links which allows a file to appear in two different directories! No other OS has this!
Gee, I guess I missed the part where they claimed they came up with the idea? From one page up:
Symbolic links are designed to aid in migration and application compatibility with UNIX operating systems. Microsoft has implemented its symbolic links to function just like UNIX links.
UAC Doesn't call out on a whim: Its when you do admin-based functions on your machine, such as
modifying files owned by another user to which you have no rights (hmm, sounds like you need sudo for this) adding/removing programs lots of 'system' level settings in the control panel
Regedit will even run without UAC prompt, and lets you access HKLU
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Yeah, the second hit for lithium fire on google says "Copious amounts of water" will work :)
Tax info has personal interest to me: Yesterday I was looking up tax information for my entire neighborhood. It IS useful to see which houses could potentially "ripe" for a deal for me to snatch up. Granted, it hasn't happened yet, but I have a vision of purchasing my entire neighborhood for a "re-engineered" community in an older neighborhood (built in the late 50s/60s). My neighborhood is decent now, but should I gain a majority control of it, I can make it even better.
You may not agree with my reasoning, but at the same time I shouldn't see your sales price, a prospective buyer should have tools available to see what the value is. (Or, for example, that the taxes on the house fluctuated, say, from $2400 7 years ago to $3700 now. That makes a big difference on a decision of where to live).
AD the best security tool ?
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
You've obviously never heard of a company called "Novell".
Simple example of how different they are:
Give a person read on VOLUME_A:\USERDATA\LOCATION\DEPARTMENT\SOMETHING\SHARE at the "SHARE" folder
and they can't even see ANYTHING except that.
Using AD (NTFS rather, but since its all one "suite" and the permissions are given to domain users) you're looking at SHARE_A, SHARE_B, SHARE_C, SHARE_D
Then in SHARE_A you can see USERDATA, DISTRIBUTION, SOFTWARE, ADMINSONLY, then under USERDATA the user can see LOCATION1, LOCATION2, LOCATION3, then under department they can see DEPARTMENT_A, DEPARTMENT_B, etc.
Just a small example. eDirectory + Zenworks is far greater than AD With GPO
Great post. Mod parent up.
A bit OT, but yeah: at $200 for the full system I'd by this guy if it had an ITX-sized case. Hell, some mini-ITX boards are $100+ themselves. For a full system at $200? Heck yeah. I'm wanting to do a lot of embedded work but price has been a major concern for me. (Smoothwall based firewall/routers come to mind)
What, you back up everything? I don't back up my media because it is stuff I can easily get again. It exists out on the void (aka the internet) somewhere. If I need it, I can find it.
Once I switched to that mentality (its cheaper for me to wait 1-2 hours/days/whatever than it is for me to spend the time to back up the TB's of data I go through each month) my backup size went down to less than 100mb/week (family photos, business documents, etc)
my mp3 player had this problem: It was 512mb internal...I used it for a few months (only transferred songs three times in bulk loads) and all of the sudden it was 488mb. grr...
haha ARB.
;)
G'ma does babysit for free
Thanks for the laugh
We do have a little boy of nearly 4 months. Grandmother lives close, ergo...should we need a 2 hour date... :)
Benefits of owning a house? We've got nearly 1 acre of land between hardcore suburbia (houses every 6 ft) and Tacoma, WA. The good news is that we have a yard we can enjoy (its like our very own park), fruit/berries, I have a wood shop, a large garage, and the best benefit of all: My wife and I don't have to worry about being loud during those special moments ;)
semi OT, but...
A few notes if you're having trouble:
First, make sure your IR sources don't confuse the wiimote. Example: Opening my drapes on the window behind the TV on a warm, sunny day, made the wiimote useless.
Second, set the proper height for the "sensor" bar in the Wii console itself. It does make a difference, especially if you have a large TV
Third, make sure your batteries are properly charged. Don't wait for the warning to go to red. When it gets to 1 bar, put the batteries in the recharger.
The "IR Pollution" is the biggest factor affecting the performance of your wiimote, in addition to distance. If you're standing 20ft away, you may wish to get a separate wireless IR emitter ($6 on amazon)that you can mount somewhere closer in your room.
Hope this helps
Which optiplexes? We have just purchased about 300...?
huh? From Wii to HDTV? Theres a $800 difference there :)
Unless you get a Samsung 50" 720p DLP from BestBuy for $899 and receive a $100 discount to NFLShop.com
(Sorry for the plug, but after spending 3 weeks on backorder with Circuit City for the same TVs and receiving CRAP customer service, BestBuy deserves the plug for hooking me up for the same [better, really] price).
Its slow to load, the interface is clunky, web page rendering is funky (even though it passes ACID2, I don't give a damn. I want pages to show up "correctly" automagically). It doesn't have a great "quirks" mode for rendering. It is bloated. On the Wii especially it performs terribly and wastes so much memory the wii quickly runs out (only having 64mb available).
Nope. If it is your only choice, use it. Thats what I do for my nintendo wii. But I assure you, there are many better browsers for PC/*nix out there. Dare I say, IE is even one of them. Opera is terrible.
this still doesn't do much to counter the fact that opera sucks
Shutting down is extremely difficult. As you can see at this link the new shutdown process was quite...lengthy. Meetings, redesigns, oy.
Thats not why the "public" was shocked or how it was portrayed in the media. "They" were shocked because of his sexual acts and the lie to the public, not to the grand jury, to cover it up.
Untrue. The cable/telcos will ALL do it because they have monopolies in their respective areas (at least here in the US). There is no competition - there is only collusion.
IE uses easy-to-install plugins...haven't you ever worked on someones machine with 15 search bars?
Absolutely hilarious. Now I need to find a cloth to clean the monitor screen from the soda that just got spit on it.
Ubiquitous? What the hell? How many years? 50?
I live in a suburban area of 150,000 people (6 miles east from Tacoma, WA: Thats about 30 miles south of Seattle, WA) and let me tell you what: There are areas here that still can't get DSL or Cable. And the DSL we have is 1.5down/256k Up. Comcast(ugh....yes I'm stuck with them) is 6down/640k up. There is no way in a few years that is going to be remedied. I also find ith ard to believe that the distribution companies will be able to handle millions of users downloading 50gb/hr without some sort of P2P. With upload speeds are what they are...
Microsoft engineers have thought of a brand new concept called symbolic links which allows a file to appear in two different directories! No other OS has this!
Gee, I guess I missed the part where they claimed they came up with the idea? From one page up:
Oh and one more followup to the UAC thing:
UAC Doesn't call out on a whim: Its when you do admin-based functions on your machine, such as
modifying files owned by another user to which you have no rights (hmm, sounds like you need sudo for this)
adding/removing programs
lots of 'system' level settings in the control panel
Regedit will even run without UAC prompt, and lets you access HKLU
Uh, no. If you don't run your accounts as local admin, UAC prompts for a password.