I actually work for the school affiliated with another very major medical center. Each PC is unique - we don't have the money for a corporate license of Ghost. So each PC is a battlegound. This might change in the near future. I can only hope.
The new Dell desktops showing up at my place of work, (a major medical center), have Google Desktop installed by default. Mindful of HIPAA, I have been uninstalling just the desktop - I leave Google Search integrated with IE, mainly due to it's popup blocker.
I have also notified the chief of IT security, and he tossed it back to us - asking us if it could be blocked at the network perimeter. Since I do just desktop with a tiny server piece, this is not my responsibilty, but I'm going to keep nagging them for at least a broadcast message to the entire medical center, to the effect that Google Desktop Search is non-HIPAA compliant, and should not be used.
We'll see if a voice form the trenches gets heard or ignored.
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As long as they have a valid reason for their net losses - advertising, promotion, etc, as opposed to frittering money away on lavish "office space," cool knick-knacks for employees - t-shirts,mugs and other junk emblazoned with the Vonage logo, I still think they still have a chance. I once worked for a company who moved their offices into the former offices of office.com - (a dot-com bust) there had to be tons of junk with the office.com logo on everything - plus a video conferencing room we dubbed "the bridge," as in the bridge from Star Trek - very cool and very expensive and very unnecessary.
Unless you are techie or at least a little techie, the average consumer doesn't yet know about VOIP. So Vonage is trying to increase public awareness of the concept. I think they have to hit hard on the cost-savings - my land-line phone bill with Verizon was $75.00 USD per month - Vonage costs me only $15.00 USD per month. It's a no-brainer.
I'd hate to see them crushed by the telcos as they try to recapture their former customers - if this does happen - I'd drop VOIP and just use my cell phone - a lot of people have already done so.
At least some of Exxon Mobile shareholders will be able to buy up all the high ground to build their houses. If you are 40 or 50 miles away from the ocean, you should be ok though.
I sense someone with Juris Doctor credentials! B-)
I'm married to a lawyer, so please don't take offense. I have also had a run-in with copyright laws, but the ruling on Google might keep the page I am being asked to remove alive after all.
This ruling comes as I have been asked to remove a web page from my personal web site. The page was a copy of an obituary that appeared in January of 2002. It was a touching tribute to Michell Robotham, who was killed on 9/11 in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
The newspaper deleted all the memorials, so had I chosen to just link to the newspaper web site, the link would have not worked. I have agreed to remove the copyrighted material, but let them know that I cannot control what Google has cached, and that they would have to contact Google to removed their cache of the page.
I wrote about my run-in with copyright laws on my blog.
The link will be removed tomorrow, but will live on in Google.
Actually, I work in a university/research hospital environment where there is s real need for this. I currently support Macs and PC's. When I'm not out fixing things and answering helpdesk calls, I have an old dual processor G4 to assist in Mac calls, and use Chicken of the VNC to connect to my Dell box to enter help desk tickets (the version we use does not run on Macs).
If I could reduce my workstations to just the Mac with XP running in a virtual window, it'd be one less system to update.
While an impressive vehicle, it's size is dwarfed by the Saturn V.
I called in sick to my job and flew down to Cape Kennedy to see the last launch of this monster. The last launch was used to put Skylab in orbit.
I got no closer than about Titusville, (I think this was about 10 miles from the launch pad) but when that sucker was lifting off, I felt a sonic impact that felt like someone slammed my chest!
I appreciate your explaining the differences. While I've played with Red Hat (a long time ago) and Mandriva more recently, I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to the differences in Linux distros and Debian.
My job is in a educational environment, (unix boxes everywhere - popmail for our e-mail system) and the guy sitting next me is a Linux whiz - he uses it all over the campus to get to files - jumping through firewalls between different areas. I'm learning a lot from him, and hope to put the change together soon to get an Intel-based Mac.
Last time I checked, Windows Media Player supported creating MP3 files and you could still turn off DRM. That would mean Microsoft is supporting creating MP3's that can play with any player/encoder.
The LAME encoder can still be downloaded freely and plugged into just about anything.
"Or is it just me?
I have to use a different account to keep in contact with those frieds of mine that still uses hotmail and wont switch (mainly because they'd loose their friends thet uses hotmail)"
Can this post be classified as trolling for a grammar nazi?
Otherwise, I feel bad for those (Grammar and intelligibility checker on STUN) friends that still use hotmail and won't switch (mainly because they'd lose their friends thatuse hotmail."
Then again, I am so tanked on Dayquil that it made perfect sense on first read, so what do I know?
Ah...the young. You've got that nailed. We see life stretching out before us, never thinking that the next second we could be sliding off the road into a tree.
It has ABS and Electronic Stability Control (ESC), plus you can lock it into 4WD. During a recent snowy drive here in the Poconos, when I put the car in 1st, the stabilty control kicked in - the second the car started picking up speed going down a hill, the combination of the engine braking and stabilty control let me keep my foot off the gas and brakes!
It was weird, but the car felt as if it were driving itself
I am guessing that you are speaking of London cabbies? I would trust them, since they seem to be able to naviagate the tiny back streets of London at (what seems to this New Yorker) at breakneck speeds without ever coming close to a collusion situation.
Now, I might get flamed for this, but New York cabbies could be the control group - put the GPS in their cabs and SUBTRACT all the data from the "model", and you might really have something there!
Great post! I commute from the Poconos to NYC occasionally (most time I take a bus), and the new mode of driving is definitely not the "one car length for each 10 MPH of speed" that I learned 30 years ago - it's NASCAR drafting!
As a result, Route 80 is regularly littered with the wreck of those who found that the two feet between their front bumper and the other car's rear bumper does not provide sufficient reaction time to stomp the brakes when Bambi decides to nibble on that tasty center median grass (BTW - mucho deer collusions in PA - we lead the USA in this statistic).
My point was exactly that I was able to steer the car in an almost right-angle turn down a steep incline without slipping off the mountain. The other guy could have done it too - he didn't know how to use the car he was driving, IMHO!
Last winter I had an experience using ABS, and it seemed to me that it was knowing how and when to use ABS is a skill still sorely lacking in most drivers. You can read the entire quote on my blog, but here are the pertinent points...
Today's commute was quite an experience, as the Poconos, as well as most of the Northeast United States, were graced with 12 or so inches of the white stuff - snow, in layman's terms.
As I headed down the mountain, I spy a snowy white Range Rover, England's answer to the Hummer, creeping along the other side of the road. I assumed the road was blocked - I stopped and we both rolled down our windows - I asked the gentleman was the road ahead blocked by a car, was that why he was turning back? He replied in a Russian accent, "Is terrible road conditions - my wehicle can't make it - I'm goink home."
He rolled his window up and I mine, and I considered his words. Let's add this up. This man has a 2005 Range Rover, costing about $84,085 (Ichecked this price on the web later) - basically a car designed to scale Mt. Everest without shifting out of 1st gear, and I, on the other hand, am leasing a 2001 Toyota Rav4, list price about $20,000. He is going back to his safe, warm house, and I am attempting to drive down the mountain. The voice inside me says - go for it, (please note I have scheduled my inner voice for a visit to a good therapist) and proceed. Sure enough, the Rav starts to emit the familiar sound of the ABS brakes kicking in, but I find it relatively easy to keep it headed around the the steep curve and make it past the most challenging portion of what qualifies as our little Mt. Everest in these parts. Note to inner voice - you were right and I'm canceling that therapist's appointment.
The Moral Of The Story? - Thinking of buying a Range Rover? Buy a Rav4, save $64,000.00 and STILL be safe.
Arriving at the Park and Ride, I find that my bus company decided it was a tad too dangerous to venture forth into the elements, and so I was faced with a decision to either wait until they felt conditions improved, or drive in by my lonesome.
Lonesome won. The roads were actually fairly clear of snow, thanks to the road plow crews in PA and NJ, and since it was quite possible that the remainder of all timid Range Rover drivers had opted to decline descending the incline, remarkably free of traffic as well. Although I had phoned in earlier and given an estimate of at least a 2 to 3 hour delay in my arrival at work, I was only about 5 minutes late, and my boss was quite pleased!
Here is a story from a large format photographer who used to use Hasselblads - he went digital as well. You would have thought that large format would never go, since it offered the huge negative for great detail and elargements with no grain.
Digital seems to be ruling...
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I actually work for the school affiliated with another very major medical center. Each PC is unique - we don't have the money for a corporate license of Ghost. So each PC is a battlegound. This might change in the near future. I can only hope.
Dang! I can't wait to get my hands on my new MacBook! I ordered the 1.83 Ghz model so now I get the 2.0 Ghz model. Boo yah!
This IS a valentine from Apple!
Umm..please ignore my subject - chalk it up to too much java and MacBook anticipation.
And I will wait for the new video iPod - twarn't born yesterday, y'know!
The new Dell desktops showing up at my place of work, (a major medical center), have Google Desktop installed by default. Mindful of HIPAA, I have been uninstalling just the desktop - I leave Google Search integrated with IE, mainly due to it's popup blocker. I have also notified the chief of IT security, and he tossed it back to us - asking us if it could be blocked at the network perimeter. Since I do just desktop with a tiny server piece, this is not my responsibilty, but I'm going to keep nagging them for at least a broadcast message to the entire medical center, to the effect that Google Desktop Search is non-HIPAA compliant, and should not be used. We'll see if a voice form the trenches gets heard or ignored.
As long as they have a valid reason for their net losses - advertising, promotion, etc, as opposed to frittering money away on lavish "office space," cool knick-knacks for employees - t-shirts,mugs and other junk emblazoned with the Vonage logo, I still think they still have a chance. I once worked for a company who moved their offices into the former offices of office.com - (a dot-com bust) there had to be tons of junk with the office.com logo on everything - plus a video conferencing room we dubbed "the bridge," as in the bridge from Star Trek - very cool and very expensive and very unnecessary.
Unless you are techie or at least a little techie, the average consumer doesn't yet know about VOIP. So Vonage is trying to increase public awareness of the concept. I think they have to hit hard on the cost-savings - my land-line phone bill with Verizon was $75.00 USD per month - Vonage costs me only $15.00 USD per month. It's a no-brainer.
I'd hate to see them crushed by the telcos as they try to recapture their former customers - if this does happen - I'd drop VOIP and just use my cell phone - a lot of people have already done so.
I just had to confirm the anecdotal evidence in your post - and you are correct sir!
Found the link here
.I played this game back in the day on my trusty PS/2 Model 30.
I think every other Duke Nukem version after this one was gilding the lily.
At least some of Exxon Mobile shareholders will be able to buy up all the high ground to build their houses. If you are 40 or 50 miles away from the ocean, you should be ok though.
I know you are but what am I?
I sense someone with Juris Doctor credentials! B-)
I'm married to a lawyer, so please don't take offense. I have also had a run-in with copyright laws, but the ruling on Google might keep the page I am being asked to remove alive after all.
This ruling comes as I have been asked to remove a web page from my personal web site. The page was a copy of an obituary that appeared in January of 2002. It was a touching tribute to Michell Robotham, who was killed on 9/11 in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
The newspaper deleted all the memorials, so had I chosen to just link to the newspaper web site, the link would have not worked. I have agreed to remove the copyrighted material, but let them know that I cannot control what Google has cached, and that they would have to contact Google to removed their cache of the page.
I wrote about my run-in with copyright laws on my blog.
The link will be removed tomorrow, but will live on in Google.
Actually, I work in a university/research hospital environment where there is s real need for this. I currently support Macs and PC's. When I'm not out fixing things and answering helpdesk calls, I have an old dual processor G4 to assist in Mac calls, and use Chicken of the VNC to connect to my Dell box to enter help desk tickets (the version we use does not run on Macs).
If I could reduce my workstations to just the Mac with XP running in a virtual window, it'd be one less system to update.
Please don't go back in time and tell my boss! That would mess up the entire space-time continuum!
I was outsourced in August 0f 2004 by a large insurance brokerage firm. I was given thirty days notice of my termination.
During this period I had remote access to backup servers and full admin rights on a network with about 1100 users.
While I was oboviously upset about the company's decision, at no time during this period did I ever even consider deleting files, accounts, etc.
Additionally, will this person ever get another job in IT? Don't think so - he's no Kevin Mitnick, just a person who made a really bad choice.
We are a nation of law. Break them and pay the consequences.
While an impressive vehicle, it's size is dwarfed by the Saturn V.
I called in sick to my job and flew down to Cape Kennedy to see the last launch of this monster. The last launch was used to put Skylab in orbit.
I got no closer than about Titusville, (I think this was about 10 miles from the launch pad) but when that sucker was lifting off, I felt a sonic impact that felt like someone slammed my chest!
I appreciate your explaining the differences. While I've played with Red Hat (a long time ago) and Mandriva more recently, I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to the differences in Linux distros and Debian.
My job is in a educational environment, (unix boxes everywhere - popmail for our e-mail system) and the guy sitting next me is a Linux whiz - he uses it all over the campus to get to files - jumping through firewalls between different areas. I'm learning a lot from him, and hope to put the change together soon to get an Intel-based Mac.
(Poking head above the sand for a minute)
Last time I checked, Windows Media Player supported creating MP3 files and you could still turn off DRM. That would mean Microsoft is supporting creating MP3's that can play with any player/encoder.
The LAME encoder can still be downloaded freely and plugged into just about anything.
What am I missing here?
My apologies. I can only write in one language, so you have me beat by a mile.
Are you from Italy? I did a google search on Luccacomix - it seems to be Italiano, si?
Ciao!"Or is it just me? I have to use a different account to keep in contact with those frieds of mine that still uses hotmail and wont switch (mainly because they'd loose their friends thet uses hotmail)"
Can this post be classified as trolling for a grammar nazi?
Otherwise, I feel bad for those (Grammar and intelligibility checker on STUN) friends that still use hotmail and won't switch (mainly because they'd lose their friends that use hotmail."
Then again, I am so tanked on Dayquil that it made perfect sense on first read, so what do I know?
Ah...the young. You've got that nailed. We see life stretching out before us, never thinking that the next second we could be sliding off the road into a tree.
BTW, my other car is a 2005 Hyundai Tucson.
It has ABS and Electronic Stability Control (ESC), plus you can lock it into 4WD. During a recent snowy drive here in the Poconos, when I put the car in 1st, the stabilty control kicked in - the second the car started picking up speed going down a hill, the combination of the engine braking and stabilty control let me keep my foot off the gas and brakes!It was weird, but the car felt as if it were driving itself
If you see Houdini, tell him to show up this year at the seance. Thanks!
I am guessing that you are speaking of London cabbies? I would trust them, since they seem to be able to naviagate the tiny back streets of London at (what seems to this New Yorker) at breakneck speeds without ever coming close to a collusion situation.
Now, I might get flamed for this, but New York cabbies could be the control group - put the GPS in their cabs and SUBTRACT all the data from the "model", and you might really have something there!
Great post! I commute from the Poconos to NYC occasionally (most time I take a bus), and the new mode of driving is definitely not the "one car length for each 10 MPH of speed" that I learned 30 years ago - it's NASCAR drafting!
As a result, Route 80 is regularly littered with the wreck of those who found that the two feet between their front bumper and the other car's rear bumper does not provide sufficient reaction time to stomp the brakes when Bambi decides to nibble on that tasty center median grass (BTW - mucho deer collusions in PA - we lead the USA in this statistic).
My point was exactly that I was able to steer the car in an almost right-angle turn down a steep incline without slipping off the mountain. The other guy could have done it too - he didn't know how to use the car he was driving, IMHO!
Last winter I had an experience using ABS, and it seemed to me that it was knowing how and when to use ABS is a skill still sorely lacking in most drivers. You can read the entire quote on my blog, but here are the pertinent points...
Today's commute was quite an experience, as the Poconos, as well as most of the Northeast United States, were graced with 12 or so inches of the white stuff - snow, in layman's terms.
As I headed down the mountain, I spy a snowy white Range Rover, England's answer to the Hummer, creeping along the other side of the road. I assumed the road was blocked - I stopped and we both rolled down our windows - I asked the gentleman was the road ahead blocked by a car, was that why he was turning back? He replied in a Russian accent, "Is terrible road conditions - my wehicle can't make it - I'm goink home."
He rolled his window up and I mine, and I considered his words. Let's add this up. This man has a 2005 Range Rover, costing about $84,085 (Ichecked this price on the web later) - basically a car designed to scale Mt. Everest without shifting out of 1st gear, and I, on the other hand, am leasing a 2001 Toyota Rav4, list price about $20,000. He is going back to his safe, warm house, and I am attempting to drive down the mountain. The voice inside me says - go for it, (please note I have scheduled my inner voice for a visit to a good therapist) and proceed. Sure enough, the Rav starts to emit the familiar sound of the ABS brakes kicking in, but I find it relatively easy to keep it headed around the the steep curve and make it past the most challenging portion of what qualifies as our little Mt. Everest in these parts. Note to inner voice - you were right and I'm canceling that therapist's appointment.
The Moral Of The Story? - Thinking of buying a Range Rover? Buy a Rav4, save $64,000.00 and STILL be safe.
Arriving at the Park and Ride, I find that my bus company decided it was a tad too dangerous to venture forth into the elements, and so I was faced with a decision to either wait until they felt conditions improved, or drive in by my lonesome.
Lonesome won. The roads were actually fairly clear of snow, thanks to the road plow crews in PA and NJ, and since it was quite possible that the remainder of all timid Range Rover drivers had opted to decline descending the incline, remarkably free of traffic as well. Although I had phoned in earlier and given an estimate of at least a 2 to 3 hour delay in my arrival at work, I was only about 5 minutes late, and my boss was quite pleased!
Here is a story from a large format photographer who used to use Hasselblads - he went digital as well. You would have thought that large format would never go, since it offered the huge negative for great detail and elargements with no grain. Digital seems to be ruling...