1. I went into a cafe and saw an old friend that I haven't seen for years. I went up to his, grabbed him (ermm.. in a manly non-sexual way) and said "Larry! You old bugger! How's things hanging?" At which point I realised it wasn't Larry at all..... I felt like a dick.
2. Small country town. This pretty woman approached me and with a wided eyed look said "OMG! What are you doing here?" Eventually she admitted that I looked exactly like her gynecologist. (No nothing ensued).
3. After I completed uni, I went back for some reason or other and found out and was introduced to another person bearing my exact name (which is pretty unusual as my last name is spelt oddly). He complained to me that I left such a legacy there that everyone would ask him "So YOU'RE that {firstname lastname} that I keep hearing about!" Later, I discovered that he altered his last name to avoid confusion... True story.
Don't need it. Just point to OpenDNS. Just change the DNS IP and customize the filtering as required. Free, easy to set up, free, has great filtering, free, also allows design of custom error pages and it's free.
Chuzzle stole my life away. Much more addictive than Frozen Bubbble especially when you get a high score of 190,000 on the first game. Then there is TAGAP, but that's too hard, even for a 15yr old.
Errmmm... $50/month buys you 12GB@1.5Mbps if you can get ADSL1 (my plan also includes 48GB off-peak). Those who can get ADSL2 get faster speeds and more capacity for the price. Those who can't get either are on dialup or satellite, both suck very badly.
they would focus purely on Next-G Yes, and that is a true monopoly. Next-G is totally owned by Telstra and they are not allowing anyone else to use that technology. To be clear on this, Next-G uses 800mhz bandwidth while all the other 3G providers use 1800+mhz. What this means is that the Next-G network travels further/kilowatt than higher frequencies, and no-one else can use it. That really stinks if you don't live in the metro areas as you are forced to use Telstra if you want reliable coverage. The worst decision Telstra made for their customers was to get rid of CDMA. I was paying 9c/minute and now I'm up to 45c/minute. Complaints about this everywhere.
Yeah but it's not Telstra per say, it's Sol Trujillo. Evidently he stuffed up another Telco in the USA. Read about it a year ago but can't find the links. Somewhere in the mid-west I think.
I'll quote this from ABC earlier on as it shows a different tack:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the decision to exclude Telstra from bidding to build the national broadband network was made at arm's length from the Federal Government. Telstra submitted a brief proposal instead of a full bid because it was not satisfied there was enough detail from the Government on regulatory requirements. Telstra says it has been excluded because it did not say how it would include small and medium businesses in the network's construction. The telco has accused the Government of using a peripheral issue to block it from winning the tender.
But Mr Rudd has said the decision was made by an independent panel assessing all of the bids and the project is still on track.
"We've regarded this as a necessary investment in the nation's infrastructure and we would do so on the basis of a competitive tender process," he said. "That panel that's been at work has been full at arm's length from Government and has reached its own conclusions.
*snip*
Still optimistic However Telstra remains hopeful it still has a chance to build the national broadband network despite being excluded from formal consideration. A media analyst from stockbroker BBY, Mark McDonnell, has told ABC Radio's The World Today the exclusion is a dramatic development for the telco. "It potentially spells the end of Telstra's aspirations for re-eingineering its network to provide high-speed broadband," he said. But in a briefing with analysts, Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo has argued it is not the end of the road for the company. He says the Government may decide to reengage with Telstra if the other three national bids are inadequate. Mr McDonnell says there could be more to the Government's decision than has been publicly disclosed. "The question then is whether this is really part of some sort of gaming process, trying to soften up Telstra with a plan to ultimately reengage with them," he said. "That is probably the most optimistic view you could take from a Telstra perspective on this, or in fact whether there is some other agenda." Telstra shares have fallen more than 7 per cent in an overall strong day for the market.
Since the site is humdrum I'll tell you my wacky tale.
I bought 2x1 GB sticks of ram for an XP box I'm currently using. This was a replacement for 2x512MB sticks. Booted fine up to a point, then seemed to hang just before the logon screen. Kernel dump crash and I rebooted. About 5 mins later the desktop loaded and nothing would work to well. I grabbed a linux disk and did a memtest and stick#2 failed miserably on test#6. So I replaced it (after testing it) and it booted fine. Unfortunately I had missing icons, shortcuts pointing to the wrong exe, directx errors and I lost the ability to cut/paste into Thunderbird and OO.org3. Other minor annoyances. I rebuilt the desktop and got a few icons back but still haven't resolved the other issues. A chkdsk showed minor HD damage - all fixed. Reinstalled some apps - Driectx, Nero etc, tried to update with Sp3 again which crashed. So what I worked out was that the bad ram was read by the kernel at some time during/after boot and 'wrote' corrupted info onto the drive and consequently stuffed up my XP. All my files are intact and it looks like a complete reinstall before xmas. Unless I can work out how to rebuild the registry. It's crazy that one bit of bad ram can cause such problems.
1) Not in compliance with the license agreement. The copy of XP that came with the earlier machines is only licensed to those machines
The MS app (KeyUpdateTool) I presume allows you to go from one machine to another as it definitely phones home and validates the new key. I've only done this from corporate to corporate or single system (XP Pro) license to corporate and vice versa without any troubles. It may just be a grey area, but works with HD replacement/Motherboard replacement (especially if you can't get legacy replacements). However your point 4 is very correct. You wouldn't see this happening a lot because of policy.
"We can't buy XP from DELL, so we had to buy vista and the software won't work". That's moronic for a number of reasons. 1. They already had XP licenses - just reinstall XP on the machines, install on one + drivers and you can probably ghost the rest. Simple. 2. Use MS product key change app to fix individual licenses if it wasn't a corporate XP 3. They could have used their old hardware until a better solution became known.
But I know what you mean. They expect things to work and when it doesn't then more time, effort and money is wasted on stupidity.
Nah! I saw that shoot across the sky last night from South to North almost horizontal. Lasted about 3 secs then disappeared off the east coast of Australia. There must have been a shower last night.
There is a saying for modern historians that when you are faced with too much data, your job is to select representative sets. No-one will ever be able to keep everything. I had to discard collections of 50 years of hard to get subscription papers, newsprint etc because no-one wanted them, no storage possible and no digital scanning available at the time. It got thrown out, with only some items kept. Even those are getting damaged over time, but I don't want to spend hours scanning them, storing the data or making them public. No-one cares for that sort of stuff and your own collections will eventually be thrown out. I'm faced with the same prospect and I hope someone will keep a representative set of what I had for a few years. Ultimately, you backup, then convert, then backup as a cycle until you die. Then, out of the blue, someone in the future will come across parts of your life represented by these collections, either in a 2nd hand shop, the garbage tip, deceased estate, relative or what/whoever and some of it may be kept.
So you're approaching 60 and you still have 1000 LPs? Are you going to spend 45,000 minutes resurrecting them? Maybe some rarities. Photos? 8mm film stock? I have 1000's of photos of dogs in dog shows in the 60s and 70s. Most of the people are dead, the dogs certainly are and as they are slides, there is no captions or any indication what they represent. So the decision is - Is it worth archiving? Who will eventually be the custodian? What value has it for future generations? When you look at it like that, then there's very little you want to keep.
Agree. I have a Dell 280 somewhere that just doesn't like Linux at all. I did manage to get Arch linux installed for a while - but would only boot 3/5 times. Kernel panic. Ubuntu won't install. Nothing wrong with it. Memory checks ok, HD is ok - just doesn't like linux. Now it's running an nlite version of XP for testing, but I think I'll sell it as I bought it to run as a linux box.
Two clients have XP on Drive F. That's my fault as they are both ghosted drives and XP got confused when I made the ghost the master. One client has an ipod and came up with the exact same issue - it decided it was drive C. But it is possible to reassign the ipod if you look hard enough.
Furthermore, why isn't Adblock stopping these things in the first place?
Because they are not ads. That's the dumb thing about the whole 'protect your pc' scam which IMHO is bigger than most people think.
In the late 90's The big 3 US antiviral companies only scanned for viruses and left the door open for other US companies to provide software firewalls like Zone Alarm. The European antivirals however went a step further by not distinguishing virus from worms or trojans and started to include spyware in their scan databases. As time went on, pretty much everyone is offering 2 or 3 tiered scanning systems that incorporate firewalls, phishing, popups, malware, spyware, rogueware, trojans, worms and viruses. In 2008/9 there are a few more 'threats' like rootkits and the very latest are 'botscans' like http://mtc.sri.com/ Trend Micro have their own too.... http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/rubotted... It's the flavor of the month!
Now MS is getting its act together and are doing what they should have in the first place, is to block holes and to provide a level of free security scans for their products.
The question that interests me the most is what is pressuring MS to do this? Are they growing a conscience? Or do they realise that their precious OS is the main cause of most of the internet abuse in the world?
In other news, Symantec/Norton have rewrote their internet suite (due to complaints I bet) and are offering 3 months for free (maybe Australia only?)! http://www.asecondchance.com.au/ I didn't know if I should laugh or feel sympathetic.
The abuse that internet aware MS systems are exposed to is massive and a lot of people from both sides are making lots of money. Money to be made 'protecting the pc' and money to be made by attacking it and money to be made by 'cleaning it'. I deal with this sort of stuff every day and there is not one single product - professional or free, that can identify, delete and repair all the threats out there.
And yes, while the ball is rolling and money is to be made, then the game goes on.
The Apple users were much more oriented toward software and graphic applications. Partially wrong. What you say only happened when Macs started to replace the Apple series. This was because Mac Basic was hard to get. Borland and other development houses turned Macs to C at a very expensive price. Other programming languages like Hypercard, Logo, etc didn't cut the cake. It was because of this that a lot of in-house development slowed to a crawl and there was a movement away from Apple to the PC as the programmers' choice. By then, the Macs shone with DTP apps where user generated data became more important than trying to code.
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3 stories.
1. I went into a cafe and saw an old friend that I haven't seen for years. I went up to his, grabbed him (ermm.. in a manly non-sexual way) and said "Larry! You old bugger! How's things hanging?" At which point I realised it wasn't Larry at all..... I felt like a dick.
2. Small country town. This pretty woman approached me and with a wided eyed look said "OMG! What are you doing here?" Eventually she admitted that I looked exactly like her gynecologist. (No nothing ensued).
3. After I completed uni, I went back for some reason or other and found out and was introduced to another person bearing my exact name (which is pretty unusual as my last name is spelt oddly).
He complained to me that I left such a legacy there that everyone would ask him "So YOU'RE that {firstname lastname} that I keep hearing about!"
Later, I discovered that he altered his last name to avoid confusion... True story.
{grin}
And that's why there are no Earth connections on US power points?
And why don't most power points have an 'OFF' switch?
BYD has shown they know how to build laptop batteries.
Is this the same crowd that make exploding ones that catch fire and melt laptops?
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Just curious....
Don't need it. Just point to OpenDNS. Just change the DNS IP and customize the filtering as required. Free, easy to set up, free, has great filtering, free, also allows design of custom error pages and it's free.
Chuzzle stole my life away. Much more addictive than Frozen Bubbble especially when you get a high score of 190,000 on the first game. Then there is TAGAP, but that's too hard, even for a 15yr old.
Errmmm... $50/month buys you 12GB@1.5Mbps if you can get ADSL1 (my plan also includes 48GB off-peak). Those who can get ADSL2 get faster speeds and more capacity for the price.
Those who can't get either are on dialup or satellite, both suck very badly.
they would focus purely on Next-G
Yes, and that is a true monopoly. Next-G is totally owned by Telstra and they are not allowing anyone else to use that technology.
To be clear on this, Next-G uses 800mhz bandwidth while all the other 3G providers use 1800+mhz. What this means is that the Next-G network travels further/kilowatt than higher frequencies, and no-one else can use it.
That really stinks if you don't live in the metro areas as you are forced to use Telstra if you want reliable coverage.
The worst decision Telstra made for their customers was to get rid of CDMA. I was paying 9c/minute and now I'm up to 45c/minute. Complaints about this everywhere.
Yeah but it's not Telstra per say, it's Sol Trujillo.
Evidently he stuffed up another Telco in the USA. Read about it a year ago but can't find the links. Somewhere in the mid-west I think.
I'll quote this from ABC earlier on as it shows a different tack:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the decision to exclude Telstra from bidding to build the national broadband network was made at arm's length from the Federal Government.
Telstra submitted a brief proposal instead of a full bid because it was not satisfied there was enough detail from the Government on regulatory requirements.
Telstra says it has been excluded because it did not say how it would include small and medium businesses in the network's construction.
The telco has accused the Government of using a peripheral issue to block it from winning the tender.
But Mr Rudd has said the decision was made by an independent panel assessing all of the bids and the project is still on track.
"We've regarded this as a necessary investment in the nation's infrastructure and we would do so on the basis of a competitive tender process," he said.
"That panel that's been at work has been full at arm's length from Government and has reached its own conclusions.
*snip*
Still optimistic
However Telstra remains hopeful it still has a chance to build the national broadband network despite being excluded from formal consideration.
A media analyst from stockbroker BBY, Mark McDonnell, has told ABC Radio's The World Today the exclusion is a dramatic development for the telco.
"It potentially spells the end of Telstra's aspirations for re-eingineering its network to provide high-speed broadband," he said.
But in a briefing with analysts, Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo has argued it is not the end of the road for the company.
He says the Government may decide to reengage with Telstra if the other three national bids are inadequate.
Mr McDonnell says there could be more to the Government's decision than has been publicly disclosed.
"The question then is whether this is really part of some sort of gaming process, trying to soften up Telstra with a plan to ultimately reengage with them," he said.
"That is probably the most optimistic view you could take from a Telstra perspective on this, or in fact whether there is some other agenda."
Telstra shares have fallen more than 7 per cent in an overall strong day for the market.
This was earlier on and has fallen out of the RSS feeds.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/15/2446644.htm
Since the site is humdrum I'll tell you my wacky tale.
I bought 2x1 GB sticks of ram for an XP box I'm currently using. This was a replacement for 2x512MB sticks.
Booted fine up to a point, then seemed to hang just before the logon screen.
Kernel dump crash and I rebooted. About 5 mins later the desktop loaded and nothing would work to well.
I grabbed a linux disk and did a memtest and stick#2 failed miserably on test#6.
So I replaced it (after testing it) and it booted fine.
Unfortunately I had missing icons, shortcuts pointing to the wrong exe, directx errors and I lost the ability to cut/paste into Thunderbird and OO.org3. Other minor annoyances.
I rebuilt the desktop and got a few icons back but still haven't resolved the other issues. A chkdsk showed minor HD damage - all fixed.
Reinstalled some apps - Driectx, Nero etc, tried to update with Sp3 again which crashed.
So what I worked out was that the bad ram was read by the kernel at some time during/after boot and 'wrote' corrupted info onto the drive and consequently stuffed up my XP. All my files are intact and it looks like a complete reinstall before xmas. Unless I can work out how to rebuild the registry.
It's crazy that one bit of bad ram can cause such problems.
I had one guy use 'they're' once. And he kept repeating it until I stopped him and explained the difference.
Old Get Smart routine
"It's the Craw!"
No! Not "Craw' it's 'CRAW'
1) Not in compliance with the license agreement. The copy of XP that came with the earlier machines is only licensed to those machines
The MS app (KeyUpdateTool) I presume allows you to go from one machine to another as it definitely phones home and validates the new key. I've only done this from corporate to corporate or single system (XP Pro) license to corporate and vice versa without any troubles.
It may just be a grey area, but works with HD replacement/Motherboard replacement (especially if you can't get legacy replacements).
However your point 4 is very correct. You wouldn't see this happening a lot because of policy.
abdominal snowmen?
Impossible! You need to take a girl with you or they won't let you in.
"We can't buy XP from DELL, so we had to buy vista and the software won't work".
That's moronic for a number of reasons.
1. They already had XP licenses - just reinstall XP on the machines, install on one + drivers and you can probably ghost the rest. Simple.
2. Use MS product key change app to fix individual licenses if it wasn't a corporate XP
3. They could have used their old hardware until a better solution became known.
But I know what you mean. They expect things to work and when it doesn't then more time, effort and money is wasted on stupidity.
I don't think so. His jive spelling is spot on.
There's a 7th region just beyond the 6th region, but it's not been discovered yet.
Nah! I saw that shoot across the sky last night from South to North almost horizontal. Lasted about 3 secs then disappeared off the east coast of Australia. There must have been a shower last night.
There is a saying for modern historians that when you are faced with too much data, your job is to select representative sets.
No-one will ever be able to keep everything. I had to discard collections of 50 years of hard to get subscription papers, newsprint etc because no-one wanted them, no storage possible and no digital scanning available at the time. It got thrown out, with only some items kept. Even those are getting damaged over time, but I don't want to spend hours scanning them, storing the data or making them public. No-one cares for that sort of stuff and your own collections will eventually be thrown out. I'm faced with the same prospect and I hope someone will keep a representative set of what I had for a few years.
Ultimately, you backup, then convert, then backup as a cycle until you die.
Then, out of the blue, someone in the future will come across parts of your life represented by these collections, either in a 2nd hand shop, the garbage tip, deceased estate, relative or what/whoever and some of it may be kept.
So you're approaching 60 and you still have 1000 LPs? Are you going to spend 45,000 minutes resurrecting them? Maybe some rarities.
Photos? 8mm film stock? I have 1000's of photos of dogs in dog shows in the 60s and 70s. Most of the people are dead, the dogs certainly are and as they are slides, there is no captions or any indication what they represent.
So the decision is - Is it worth archiving? Who will eventually be the custodian? What value has it for future generations?
When you look at it like that, then there's very little you want to keep.
Here's some links for everyone's consideration.
Are you interested? http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html
What about this? http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/index.html.en
Or: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/8685?REC=6
Yes but he may have a different fetish to yours.
Agree. I have a Dell 280 somewhere that just doesn't like Linux at all. I did manage to get Arch linux installed for a while - but would only boot 3/5 times. Kernel panic. Ubuntu won't install.
Nothing wrong with it. Memory checks ok, HD is ok - just doesn't like linux. Now it's running an nlite version of XP for testing, but I think I'll sell it as I bought it to run as a linux box.
Two clients have XP on Drive F. That's my fault as they are both ghosted drives and XP got confused when I made the ghost the master.
One client has an ipod and came up with the exact same issue - it decided it was drive C.
But it is possible to reassign the ipod if you look hard enough.
Furthermore, why isn't Adblock stopping these things in the first place?
Because they are not ads.
That's the dumb thing about the whole 'protect your pc' scam which IMHO is bigger than most people think.
In the late 90's The big 3 US antiviral companies only scanned for viruses and left the door open for other US companies to provide software firewalls like Zone Alarm. ... It's the flavor of the month!
The European antivirals however went a step further by not distinguishing virus from worms or trojans and started to include spyware in their scan databases.
As time went on, pretty much everyone is offering 2 or 3 tiered scanning systems that incorporate firewalls, phishing, popups, malware, spyware, rogueware, trojans, worms and viruses.
In 2008/9 there are a few more 'threats' like rootkits and the very latest are 'botscans' like http://mtc.sri.com/
Trend Micro have their own too.... http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/rubotted
Now MS is getting its act together and are doing what they should have in the first place, is to block holes and to provide a level of free security scans for their products.
The question that interests me the most is what is pressuring MS to do this?
Are they growing a conscience? Or do they realise that their precious OS is the main cause of most of the internet abuse in the world?
In other news, Symantec/Norton have rewrote their internet suite (due to complaints I bet) and are offering 3 months for free (maybe Australia only?)! http://www.asecondchance.com.au/ I didn't know if I should laugh or feel sympathetic.
The abuse that internet aware MS systems are exposed to is massive and a lot of people from both sides are making lots of money. Money to be made 'protecting the pc' and money to be made by attacking it and money to be made by 'cleaning it'.
I deal with this sort of stuff every day and there is not one single product - professional or free, that can identify, delete and repair all the threats out there.
And yes, while the ball is rolling and money is to be made, then the game goes on.
Damnit! Slashvertisements escape Adblock.
The Apple users were much more oriented toward software and graphic applications.
Partially wrong. What you say only happened when Macs started to replace the Apple series. This was because Mac Basic was hard to get. Borland and other development houses turned Macs to C at a very expensive price. Other programming languages like Hypercard, Logo, etc didn't cut the cake. It was because of this that a lot of in-house development slowed to a crawl and there was a movement away from Apple to the PC as the programmers' choice.
By then, the Macs shone with DTP apps where user generated data became more important than trying to code.