Quite the angry AC, aren't we? with your bullets flying? Haven't had enough of that in Iraq, have we?
Hated your mommy and daddy did we?
Yes you are free - of common sense.
A tad bitter, aren't we? All computers are the same. 1's and 0's. Only people can be different.
I feel sorry for you. Care to explain your horrible sig?
or are all sigs the same?
Should not reply to AC's, but although my puny site is also hosted by Go Daddy, and gets like no hits except for me, it has been rock steady.
I am certain that if you buy a premium level account such as one that could handle the traffic seen on http://barackobama.com/ on single day that they get better service by far than I would get.
The hacking happened shortly after a web redesign. I have a feeling the hacker(s) noticed the new site design, and poked around for known loopholes.
It'd be cool if someone from/. offered their services to the campaign to trace the sob's, but I'm sure it would be difficult.
Anybody want to find the ghost in the machine?
Go elsewhere if the world of politics in not to your liking.
I've been away for quite a while, helping out the Obama campaign.
How have you helped your country lately?
I'm in tech support - so I've seen plenty of XP boxes due to the inevitable accumulation of eight gazillion programs, spyware, trojans, and Bill Gates knows what else, have had to be re-imaged since it was faster than waiting for XP to do something while the hard drive was too small, not defragged, etc. That being said, I like XP. Keep it up to date, anti-virus up to date too, practice safe surfing, and it just works.
I like my Mac because I don't have to deal with the exploits in XP, and because, for me, it has been relatively problem-free.
BTW, just bought and Airport Extreme to replace a Cisco/Linksys wireless router. No more restarting the frickin' router every other minute. The Airport was easy to setup, and configure WPA Personal. The flippin' Cisco/Linksys always had problems with whatever security I chose. So I settled for MAC filtering. I have one PC to and two Macs on my home network.
We had a specific budget for a PC, so got a basic one. It'll be fine once I put XP on it. My point was that what about that average Joe User does when he thinks he's buying a 'state of the art system" with Vista, and it runs like a dog. He's stuck or very angry at Microsoft. Every Mac I've used recently has seemed refined and quick. From my son's Mac Mini to a G5 (non-Intel) I used at work, they seem to be reliable and workhorses. I was also using a 5 year old G4 with Tiger - the thing would not die.
I have used time machine and it seems to work for me. So, there might be issues with encryption. Don't use it. Don't care.
I haven't looked that closely at the Firewall or java, but I don't worry too much about those things. No national security stored on this cool toy.
Smug ads is it? So you are a court jester?/Murray Hewitt impression off
I have a MacBook Pro for almost two year now. Freezing? A LOT less than Windows. And Vista? Oh NO you didn't.
Therein lies a sad tale. Seems my wife wanted a new PC for this past Christmas. Did she let me persuade her to get a iMac, or maybe a Mac Mini? She wanted what she was used to, so a generic PC with Vista it was. 1 gig of RAM. The system is CHOKINGLY slow. It has to be wiped for XP now. To think that some non-techie person is persuaded to buy a new PC like this bare bones thing I very reluctantly bought for my wife - are they going to be happy with their "NEW!" PC?
Not. SO not.
Dude - should have bought the three year protection plan. I had a few things fixed - one was a replacement DVD drive. I think that that repair probably paid for the plan, and I still have a year to go.
Got Leopard now - everything just works.
Smug? Those commercials are funny - Funny. Good luck with that Vista thingie.
At my job, I jacked the RAM on a two year old stock Dell to four gigs, added a 512 meg PCI card, and Vista Ultimate is still quirky and sluggish. It's going back to XP when I have some time.
Bill, you left at your peak. XP was the bomb-diggity. Vista is just a bomb.
Interesting that you could have sold a dead MacBook Pro though. A dead PC laptop? Anyone buy these lately? Parts I guess.
Oops. my bad - needed to respond to your point that "his views haven't changed since at least 1988." You call that a good thing? So Ron Paul is proud to be 19 years behind the times?
The world is a very different place now. We need a President with vision and who is open to change.
I had only a minor glitch. Just popping the DVD in produced a lot of whirring noises on my MacBook Pro. Hmmm.... what to do, what to do....
Corrected permissions, ran disk verify, wiped the DVD off on my t-shirt for good luck (I noticed some little blemishes from what I think was the effect of the cardboard packaging.), and it was Leopard in 36 minutes!
Just did the upgrade yesterday, still playing with it.
I bought a Mac Book Pro more than a year ago. Still love it. At work, I support PC's with only a sprinkling of Macs. We have Exchange for E-mail. Entourage still doesn't play nice with our server (not sure why, I only manage two small AD domains).
Just wondering out loud - do Blackberries work with OS X? Hmmm.... looks like you can synch with and Exchange server and OS X.
We currently have a consulting group that manages our Exchange server - they only support Blackberries with Outlook - no Entourage support.
Maybe the new release of an Office suite for OS X might help, but the only way I can see Apple gaining on HP, Dell, etc, is by ramping up production and selling Macs in all the major outlets - Circuit City, Walmart, etc, instead of the cool but boutique-type Apple stores.
If Joe and Mary Computer shopper don't see it as they wander the mega-store aisles, they cannot buy it. Visibility. Show the product!
hey AC - political affiliation? Hmmm... let me guess - not a Democrat. Thought so.
After RTA, it looks like a lot of hot air, and goes back to the time when the Senator was a junior lawyer. When you are starting out as a lawyer, you don't pick and choose what you work on - you just do it or they find another lawyer to replace you.
Obama is now even with Hillary at 32%, according to a recent poll I saw. I'd be supporting Hillary in a minute if it wasn't for Senator Obama. It's going to be an interesting primary season.
"Go through the interactive demo for MS Vista "Wow starts now" and click on the "Easier" link (magnifying glass). Funny how the "3D flip" feature is displayed here without any sort of qualification on the product level or hardware level needed to use it. Even automobile advertisements include a note showing that some features are not "base model". While it may be obvious to advanced computer users that these features will require more system resources, the average PC user is not so educated to understand that the low end Dell they bought can't run the "Wow"."
This is the way MS always tries to pump up the PC manufacturers who make more profits on selling high-end Vista Premium Ultimate systems than Vista Home basic cheapos - sort of the old you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours theory. And yet, you can build an Aero (Vista Ultimate) PC yourself for a little over $500.00 dollars (USD), thus avoiding the hype on buying an expensive OEM system.
Slashdotters could build this in their sleep with a rusty tweezer (although they might decide that building a Vista box would be more like a nightmare).
Unless you're adept at board level repairs, when a chip/capacitor/chipset on the mobo whatever goes to chip heaven, that mobo can't be recycled into a new box, linux or windows.
I still have an old Asus lying around in the above condition (word to the wise - DON'T ignore it when you notice a chipset heatsink lying on the bottom of the case). But all is not lost. One of these days I'll get around to making a geek-clock from it.
Just a tad bit in to the off-topic realm, but a few years back, a company I worked for used Compaq (pre-HP takeover) as the desktop standard. Some of these systems had 10 gigabyte hard drives. When they failed under warranty, we'd get identical 10 gig drives, even though the standard was now 20 or 30 gig drives.
When I checked the manufacturing date, the drive was was three frickin' years old! I didn't care that the drive was small, I cared that the drive had been sitting on a shelf or worse, been kicked around in warehouses for three years before it got to me.
We do and we don't have an image. The hospital side does, the school side doesn't. Also, users are set up as admin, install Google Desktop and other junk.
This may be changing in the near future, but my point was that Dell didn't fix their image to fit our environment, even though thye sold a lot of systems. Guess Dell likes it when HP gains market share?
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want the Clintons - not by a long shot me bucko. http://eburgobama08.org/about
Quite the angry AC, aren't we? with your bullets flying? Haven't had enough of that in Iraq, have we? Hated your mommy and daddy did we? Yes you are free - of common sense.
Welcome aboard! Have a look see at my site - no hacking now - play nice! In Hope and in Peace Jim Lyons http://eburgobama08.org/about
A tad bitter, aren't we? All computers are the same. 1's and 0's. Only people can be different. I feel sorry for you. Care to explain your horrible sig? or are all sigs the same?
I met the web team while in Chicago. They know the people on the web team. BTW, your sig absolutely sucks.
Should not reply to AC's, but although my puny site is also hosted by Go Daddy, and gets like no hits except for me, it has been rock steady. I am certain that if you buy a premium level account such as one that could handle the traffic seen on http://barackobama.com/ on single day that they get better service by far than I would get. The hacking happened shortly after a web redesign. I have a feeling the hacker(s) noticed the new site design, and poked around for known loopholes. It'd be cool if someone from /. offered their services to the campaign to trace the sob's, but I'm sure it would be difficult.
Anybody want to find the ghost in the machine?
Please. Grow up. I did and you can too, gosh darn it! http://eburgobama08.org/about
Go elsewhere if the world of politics in not to your liking. I've been away for quite a while, helping out the Obama campaign. How have you helped your country lately?
I'm in tech support - so I've seen plenty of XP boxes due to the inevitable accumulation of eight gazillion programs, spyware, trojans, and Bill Gates knows what else, have had to be re-imaged since it was faster than waiting for XP to do something while the hard drive was too small, not defragged, etc. That being said, I like XP. Keep it up to date, anti-virus up to date too, practice safe surfing, and it just works.
I like my Mac because I don't have to deal with the exploits in XP, and because, for me, it has been relatively problem-free.
BTW, just bought and Airport Extreme to replace a Cisco/Linksys wireless router. No more restarting the frickin' router every other minute. The Airport was easy to setup, and configure WPA Personal. The flippin' Cisco/Linksys always had problems with whatever security I chose. So I settled for MAC filtering. I have one PC to and two Macs on my home network.
We had a specific budget for a PC, so got a basic one. It'll be fine once I put XP on it. My point was that what about that average Joe User does when he thinks he's buying a 'state of the art system" with Vista, and it runs like a dog. He's stuck or very angry at Microsoft. Every Mac I've used recently has seemed refined and quick. From my son's Mac Mini to a G5 (non-Intel) I used at work, they seem to be reliable and workhorses. I was also using a 5 year old G4 with Tiger - the thing would not die.
I have used time machine and it seems to work for me. So, there might be issues with encryption. Don't use it. Don't care.
I haven't looked that closely at the Firewall or java, but I don't worry too much about those things. No national security stored on this cool toy.
Leopard and Java works on this old school HTML page - http://poconopcdoctor.com/BigJimmyStyle/
But this is a really old example of a Java Applet.
So I'm happy.
I, for one, choose not to anger the overlords with too many requests for perfection. I'm not perfect, so why should they be?
B-)
Smug ads is it? So you are a court jester? /Murray Hewitt impression off
I have a MacBook Pro for almost two year now. Freezing? A LOT less than Windows. And Vista? Oh NO you didn't.
Therein lies a sad tale. Seems my wife wanted a new PC for this past Christmas. Did she let me persuade her to get a iMac, or maybe a Mac Mini? She wanted what she was used to, so a generic PC with Vista it was. 1 gig of RAM. The system is CHOKINGLY slow. It has to be wiped for XP now. To think that some non-techie person is persuaded to buy a new PC like this bare bones thing I very reluctantly bought for my wife - are they going to be happy with their "NEW!" PC?
Not. SO not.
Dude - should have bought the three year protection plan. I had a few things fixed - one was a replacement DVD drive. I think that that repair probably paid for the plan, and I still have a year to go.
Got Leopard now - everything just works.
Smug? Those commercials are funny - Funny. Good luck with that Vista thingie.
At my job, I jacked the RAM on a two year old stock Dell to four gigs, added a 512 meg PCI card, and Vista Ultimate is still quirky and sluggish. It's going back to XP when I have some time.
Bill, you left at your peak. XP was the bomb-diggity. Vista is just a bomb.
Interesting that you could have sold a dead MacBook Pro though. A dead PC laptop? Anyone buy these lately? Parts I guess.
Scotty beam me the hell up.
Standing For Obama
Oops. my bad - needed to respond to your point that "his views haven't changed since at least 1988." You call that a good thing? So Ron Paul is proud to be 19 years behind the times?
The world is a very different place now. We need a President with vision and who is open to change.
That person is Senator Obama.
Ron Paul is a Republican. After 7 years of the Bush and Dead-Eye Dick, NO Republican will ever get my vote.
I do hope he sucks votes from whatever potential candidate the Repugnicants nominate. That would be nice.
Obama '08
Jim Lyons
FIRED UP! READY TO GO!
http://eburgobama08.org/
I had only a minor glitch. Just popping the DVD in produced a lot of whirring noises on my MacBook Pro. Hmmm.... what to do, what to do....
Corrected permissions, ran disk verify, wiped the DVD off on my t-shirt for good luck (I noticed some little blemishes from what I think was the effect of the cardboard packaging.), and it was Leopard in 36 minutes!
Just did the upgrade yesterday, still playing with it.
Read all the gory details on DA BLOG!
Rockies in 7!
Mod me down for sour grapes - I am fairly certain my story, which is still listed as "pending" will be rejected!
007-09-28 15:05:44 Would you buy a $2,400.00 80 gig Flash Hard Drive? (Hardware,Data Storage) (pending)
Oh the pain of rejection!
B-)
At least I got to shake the hand of the next POTUS!
Peace out!
I bought a Mac Book Pro more than a year ago. Still love it. At work, I support PC's with only a sprinkling of Macs. We have Exchange for E-mail. Entourage still doesn't play nice with our server (not sure why, I only manage two small AD domains).
Just wondering out loud - do Blackberries work with OS X? Hmmm.... looks like you can synch with and Exchange server and OS X.
http://www.pocketmac.net/products/pmblackberry/
We currently have a consulting group that manages our Exchange server - they only support Blackberries with Outlook - no Entourage support.
Maybe the new release of an Office suite for OS X might help, but the only way I can see Apple gaining on HP, Dell, etc, is by ramping up production and selling Macs in all the major outlets - Circuit City, Walmart, etc, instead of the cool but boutique-type Apple stores.
If Joe and Mary Computer shopper don't see it as they wander the mega-store aisles, they cannot buy it. Visibility. Show the product!
Dang! A lot of work defeated by "dad, I'm going heelying with David. See you later!" David has a FIOS connection at his house, BTW.
Agreed - let's do that!
Telling people to shut up? Might we have a bit of a control issue here? Oh right, let me just delete my web site because it's 'too early."
I'll get right on that for you. Feel better now?
hey AC - political affiliation? Hmmm... let me guess - not a Democrat. Thought so.
After RTA, it looks like a lot of hot air, and goes back to the time when the Senator was a junior lawyer. When you are starting out as a lawyer, you don't pick and choose what you work on - you just do it or they find another lawyer to replace you.
Looks like a shill story to me.
I beg to differ, dude.
Obama is now even with Hillary at 32%, according to a recent poll I saw. I'd be supporting Hillary in a minute if it wasn't for Senator Obama. It's going to be an interesting primary season.
We'll see who shakes out.
I have one name and two numbers for you -
Obama '08
If you think this will be the same country when we elect the first African-American President, then I guess nothing will shake your beliefs.
Read his book - "The Audacity of Hope."
He is different. Give him a chance.
Peace.
"Go through the interactive demo for MS Vista "Wow starts now" and click on the "Easier" link (magnifying glass). Funny how the "3D flip" feature is displayed here without any sort of qualification on the product level or hardware level needed to use it. Even automobile advertisements include a note showing that some features are not "base model". While it may be obvious to advanced computer users that these features will require more system resources, the average PC user is not so educated to understand that the low end Dell they bought can't run the "Wow"."
This is the way MS always tries to pump up the PC manufacturers who make more profits on selling high-end Vista Premium Ultimate systems than Vista Home basic cheapos - sort of the old you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours theory. And yet, you can build an Aero (Vista Ultimate) PC yourself for a little over $500.00 dollars (USD), thus avoiding the hype on buying an expensive OEM system.
Slashdotters could build this in their sleep with a rusty tweezer (although they might decide that building a Vista box would be more like a nightmare).
Unless you're adept at board level repairs, when a chip/capacitor/chipset on the mobo whatever goes to chip heaven, that mobo can't be recycled into a new box, linux or windows.
I still have an old Asus lying around in the above condition (word to the wise - DON'T ignore it when you notice a chipset heatsink lying on the bottom of the case). But all is not lost. One of these days I'll get around to making a geek-clock from it.
Just a tad bit in to the off-topic realm, but a few years back, a company I worked for used Compaq (pre-HP takeover) as the desktop standard. Some of these systems had 10 gigabyte hard drives. When they failed under warranty, we'd get identical 10 gig drives, even though the standard was now 20 or 30 gig drives.
When I checked the manufacturing date, the drive was was three frickin' years old! I didn't care that the drive was small, I cared that the drive had been sitting on a shelf or worse, been kicked around in warehouses for three years before it got to me.
We do and we don't have an image. The hospital side does, the school side doesn't. Also, users are set up as admin, install Google Desktop and other junk.
This may be changing in the near future, but my point was that Dell didn't fix their image to fit our environment, even though thye sold a lot of systems. Guess Dell likes it when HP gains market share?