Insulation is good in walls and ceiling attic spaces.
Windows have been replaced over the last couple years.
Exterior Doors and sliding glass door replaced as well, all with energy rated replacements.
Even hung e-rated window blinds which believe it or not make a notifiable difference.
That changes helped a lot actually I think the first year we went through 3 tanks of oil to barely make it through the season. After insulation, doors and windows it dropped closer to 2 tanks a year, (50% improvement) but this winter has been unreasonably cold compared to previous years.
10 years ago it didn't cost nearly as much to fill the oil tank. I think the first year in this house it was around $360.00 to fill the 250 Gallon oil tank. With heating oil hitting close to $4.00 per gallon now, that's up to almost $1000.00 to fill the tank each time. I think my last fill bill was $960.00
No amount of insulation is going to offset that increase in oil pricing.
I converted my home to heat with Coal this year, as I can no longer afford the ridiculous cost of heating oil.
Cost to Heat Last season with heating Oil -- $2,200.00 (675 Gallons of Oil)
Cost to Heat this season after converting to Coal $660.00 (3 Tons of Coal)
Tried a pellet stove last year, it barely put out enough BTU's to heat one room in the house. That was a $3200.00 boondoggle, took a huge loss reselling the thing.
Don't mention geoThermal as the incredibly high cost of installation, plus the necessary Electrical service upgrade to support the electric booster furnace for this region, makes it unaffordable to install in an older home, like most other 'green' solutions.
Until someone finds a cost effective, affordable solution to replace these, Coal will remain king in my home.
you could make use of a live distro (Debian-live for instance) to lookup a fix on the internet and then make the corrections. re-installing the OS for a typo in a config seems a bit overkill. Plenty of live distros out there for this simple task.
I received messages from a family talking to some college student about help with his drug issues. then got in a mail exchange for the same family coordinating holiday plans, asking if I was coming home for holidays and when I would be there. I responded nicely several times telling them they had the wrong email address, and please would they all remove me from their address books, then please contact Matt in VA and get his correct email, because I am Mark and I live in OH. My plea went unanswered as they continued to include me in their messages. I finally had to RESORT TO YELLING AND BEING NASTY before they finally removed me from their correspondence. I guess being nice doesn't always work.
Now if only I could get Matt to quit using my email address in the stupid redbox. There is no way to opt out of notifications from the redbox when people enter your email when renting or returning a movie.
I wonder how dense you have to be to continually enter the wrong email address as your own.
ATMs keep track of how much cash is in the dispenser (entered into the system when the cash is loaded) It keeps track of all transactions, successful or failed.
The inexpensive retail ATM's we manufacture can track how much cash was dispensed if the dispense was not complete, of if there was an issue and cash was diverted from being dispensed into the reject tray. The terminal will automatically reverse a transaction if it failed to fully or partially dispense the requested cash during a transaction, and will credit the difference back to your account.
I have a hard time believing a machine that costs $1500.00 can do all that yet a $50k ATM on the side of a bank cannot. Banks also reconcile their machines nightly, comparing the cash in the Dispenser cassettes, the reject tray, and the transaction journal reports. It had better all balance. I own and operate several ATMs and I can assure you I check to ensure everything balances..
So if there was One transaction where the machine pulled back the '$300.00 you failed to remove from the machine' and everything doesn't balance, when they reconcile the machine, how hard do you really think it would be for them to figure out ? I say it would take them less than 5 minutes to find where the money went.
If what you mention was actively being exploited the banks would be loosing money and they would not sit idly by, I am positive they would be going after the manufacturer of the machine with a vengeance, and the issue wouldn't be hanging out there for 8 months..
The company I work for manufactures ATMs. Our machines do NOT run Windows or any other Commercial OS. They are fully compliant with PCI and ADA requirements. They include the headphone jack and audio prompts you mention among other requirements.
So what was the requirement that necessitated the use of Windows ? It's only a platform and is not needed to accomplish those goals. The OS used is irrelevant to ease-of-use by the disabled. The ADA guidelines state that ALL new machines manufactured after a certain date must include those features. Older machines of course are grandfathered in, due to the excessive cost of upgrading or overhauling them. f you take ANY machine out of service to replace it, it must be replaced with a terminal that meets the current guidelines.
You might be surprised to find out there were still terminals through the end of last year using only single DES encryption. At the end of the year we shut down all of the terminals we handle processing for that were not upgraded. I can't say the same for other processors or sponsor banks. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out people were still operating those insecure out of compliance terminals.
Funny the ATMs installed in the banks cost around $50k While ours are in the range of $1500.00 - $2000.00. We have manufactured to date around 6000 machines and handle processing for over 12,000 terminals (ours and other manufacturers). to date none of our machines have been subject to fraud via tampering in any fashion. that includes denomination fraud, code insertion, skimming devices.
Quite frankly the process we have to go through for certification of any hardware or software change, I don't understand how the big guys keep ending up so vulnerable. They attempt to freeze, drill, Shock, inject foreign substances, pry apart, cut open, and whatever else they can come up with to assault our terminals to ensure they are not able to be physically or electronically compromised. Do the big guys get an automatic pass on the certification process, just because of who they are ? We sure as heck don't..
The easy way to handle this would have been to have the demarcation point located in your Server room to begin with. Sounds to me like they went cheap to begin with by not having the teleco drop it directly into the server room. What I did at our facility is have all phone and data circuits terminate in the Server room as the main demarcation point. the phone company was more than happy to do this provided I supplied them with a 4" diameter conduit from the entry point at the side of the building to the destination. They then proceeded to insert a single 1/2" diameter cable to provide all my circuits through this conduit. On the upside I never have to worry about extending a line, and the phone company is responsible for the circuit right into my data center. from which point I can use any standard 20' Patch cable to reach any of the telecommunications or Data com equipment. I designed to avoid having to customize cables.
The 4" conduit still baffles me though.. it's so big for such a tiny cable.
That being said, as others have stated. Do what the boss wants,
You should get to know your local FBI agents, you will get a better feel for the cases they work. you might change your opinion when you see the variety of different cases they pursue. Join a local chapter of Infragard so you can become informed. Most interesting are the sessions where they break down a case from beginning to end, explaining how and why they got involved, the course of the investigation, and how they closed the case. FBI Agent even have a pretty good sense of humor believe it or not..
Here in Cleveland they DO go after political corruption (The number of local raids this year has been astonishing), Child porn, Computer based Crimes, the list goes on and on.. The decision to accept or not accept a case is sometimes determined by the Financial losses incurred, Of course that criteria would not apply to all types of crimes.
I hope you aren't basing your opinion off of how the FBI is portrayed on television and in the movies. If so then maybe you believe Wolverine is a real person too...
Why do I say that ? Well I purchased a netbook with Windows on it, wiped it and loaded Linux. Why did I buy the Windows netbook when it's available with Linux ? Because the Linux version of the same netbook had lower specs, for memory and storage. So yes my purchase contributed to that 90% figure, but due to users like myself that 90% figure is not accurate. there are quite a few people that did the same thing as me, they didn't feel they should be shorted on Secs just because they planned to run Linux on their Netbook.
Why won't manufacturers offer identically configured Hardware with Linux or Windows OS options ?
I believe that will be for a limited time with restrictions. as in, If you buy your new PC from an OEM within 90 Days of the Windows 7 release you might qualify for the free upgrade.. but you will have to notify the OEM at time of purchase that you want the free upgrade to Windows 7
The actual free upgrade program may be better or worse then my speculation of it, time will tell..
There is no way they will extend that free upgrade to ALL Vista users, as nice as that would be..
I really enjoyed the firefly series after purchasing it on DVD, and watching the episodes in order. FOX seemed to do everything in their power to kill this show..
1. Friday night scheduling.
2. Airing the episodes out of order.. I mean HELLO ?? The order was 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 1; with 11 â" 13 unaired
Fox is definitely the last place you want to try out a new series. It's hard to start watching a new series on their network, knowing their track record for killing off anything that might be halfway decent.. Why bother getting interested in a show that won't be around tomorrow ?
So I'm in Best Buy last week and I decided to browse the PC game isle for something that would run on my Linux system. I see Enemy Territory Quake Wars (ETQW) (released Oct 07) and the price is $49.99 Ouch.. I browsed a bit more and see a special edition version of the same game for $29.99 so I bought it. Grabbed the Linux installer from the net and started playing the game.. So far so good !!
I stop in MicroCenter over the weekend and see ETQW for $4.99. I immediately bitched and moaned, was really glad i hadn't done the impulse buy of the $50.00 version. I then bought 4 more copies from Microcenter for my friends and nephews so we can all get online and play together.. so my total investment now is $50.00 / 5 games $10.00 per copy.
I imagine I could have looked for a key gen on the net and installed from my disc onto their machines, but For $5.00 why not make em all legit ?
I should know better than to even look in BB for anything PC related.. it was an impulse decision because I hadn't bought a new PC game for a while.
I too am gun-shy of dropping $60.00 on a game that bites..
The last game I pre-ordered (savage2) had the minimum system specs change before release and the game wouldn't run on my hardware. They now give that game away for free, and it still won't run on my machine. That game was release around the same time as ETQW
Who would have thought a game couldn't step down and run on a geforce 6800 ? yes the card is old, but it's the fastest one I can get for an AGP slot, a video card upgrade means a full system upgrade at this point. Since the PC runs so well I haven't been able to justify the expense to myself.
Apparently this is a little unfair- he sniffed the data, he didn't actually make a fake passport.
Of course he only sniffed the data and didn't make a fake passport.. If merely sniffing the data proves your point, why would you subject yourself to penalties for forgery ?
U.S.C. Â 1543 provides:
Whoever falsely makes, forges, counterfeits, mutilates, or alters any passport or instrument purporting to be a passport, with intent that the same may be used; or
Whoever willfully and knowingly uses, or attempts to use, or furnishes to another for use any such false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered passport or instrument purporting to be a passport, or any passport validly issued which has become void by the occurrence of any condition therein prescribed invalidating the same
Shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
I certainly would have stopped at successfully sniffing the data. besides all a terrorist has to do is rig the bomb so it will automatically go off when it detects a pre-specified number of US RFID passports in the vicinity.. Now, don't you feel that RFID in your passport has made you more secure ?
At the very least if you are going to capitalize the company reference multiple times throughout the article, please work on getting the 4 letters in the correct order..
You have been able to do that in the US for years.. You have to pay for the tax stamp. I have several friends with fully automatic firearms, as well as silencers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
Quite frankly though with the price of ammo these days I'll pass on the fully automatic weapons.
What I want to find is a 45-70 Rolling block with vernier sights. anyone have one of these for sale or trade ? Single shot black powder cartridge.(think Quigley down under)
It's funny that I get Resumes via email in some bizarre formats, some of which I am unable to open with any program I have installed. Resumes show up as Word Perfect documents (would be more understandable if I worked for a Law Firm), they show up in MS Works writer format, and a few formats I have yet to identify. Invariably though the resume will state the applicants proficiency with Microsoft Office.....
We also receive documents from from other companies in Office 2003, or 2007 formats that just won't open with stock office 2000.. MS demonstrates their amazing backwards compatibility with their own office suite yet again !!
Personally I use OpenOffice and save in.odt format..pdf for sending out documents.
If someone will need to edit a document, I will send it in rich text format, because EVERY word processor I have ever used (except maybe the original appleworks) seems to be able to open and edit.rtf files.
I reserve sending out.doc format files to resume submissions when they specifically request that format.
If MS wants to put forth a standard File format for ISO approval, Thats just fine. Make them FIX the problems in their proposed standard before trying to ram it through..
Nothing better than sending Word 2007 Documents to your Business partners who are still running Office 2000, and discovering they can't open and read your documents.. Hurray for compatibility !
Completely agree with this. Whenever I receive an email from another manager and they have CC'd my supervisor, I tend to take that as an unprovoked attack on me, and I immediately am put in an adversarial stance with that colleague. I don't know about the rest of you, but I would think it's in your best interest to stay on the GOOD side of the IT manager, and department as a whole. Sure if you give us grief your problems will still get resolved eventually, it si part of our job. On the other hand if you don't give us crap all the time your problems tend to get solved a bit faster..
People that CC or BCC up the chain all the time really tick me off. If you have a problem with me, man up and come talk to me about it. I'm a pretty reasonable person until you start resorting to attacks on me personally or professionally. I also don't tend to leave myself open so that an attack of that type would be effective, I wasn't born yesterday, and I've seen people like you before CC'ing, brown-nosing, screw everyone else on your way to the top with your "it's all about me.. " attitude.
In this thread, I agree the email response to your manager is appropriate, do NOT CC or BCC up the chain unless you can not get a resolution with your manager. If your manager refuses to address the license compliance issue, then and only then should you think about moving up the managerial chain. This may be his personal view for saving the company money, the company as a whole may have other, more ethical views. Don't immediately write off the entire company because one manager doesn't want to spend his departmental budget on licensing, he is wrong, and he knows he is wrong.
So he's saying we can play legally purchased, store bought DVD's on our Linux boxes right ? I mean that should be covered under fair use.... If you can legally circumvent DRM under the fair-use provision to make a COPY of a DVD as a 'backup', then circumventing that same DRM to simply playback a movie should be a non-issue
I'm thinking I must have missed something along the way. I have not seen a news report that said Cho was a gamer and played 'violent' video games.. So how can these video games, that as far as I can tell he didn't even play, supposed to have caused the rampage of this lunatic ?
taking away the means for the public to defend themselves doesn't solve the problem of some wacko wanting to hurt people for no apparent reason.
Debian - Gives the user control to choose what they want to use, more packages more options.. Ubuntu - Makes most of the initial choices for the user..
Debian - manual configuration of a lot of items.. Ubuntu - a bit better at auto-configuration of hardware.
Debian - Etch 20,400+ Packages in the official repository Ubuntu - Fiesty I think it's around 6000 Packages but can't find a stat anywhere to confirm exact munber.
I've used child distros in the past an always ran into problems. I would then switch to the parent distros to get away from the problems.. So I use Debian rather than one of it's numerous children to prevent a repeat of my previous experiences. http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
If you had your email filter enabled to automatically blacklist or delete messages from these firms you wouldn't have received the notice or request for subpoena either..
I can't imagine that before this time either party has sent her anything nice, so why would she bother accepting any email from them at all ?
And how much did your last full software support plan for 50 servers run from Microsoft ? SCO ? I'm not talking purchase price, but Full software support for one year ? I recall spending 3 Million US for an Enterprise licensing agreement with MS and not having any Support services included..
No matter who the vendor is, support is always extra these days..
If you read the details of that 10K offering there is quite a bit in there...
One of the first things I look at when I review a resume is "How long has this individual worked at their previous jobs ? "
If I see multiple jobs of a Year or less, I just throw the resume right then and there. Why should I as an employer Hire someone I don't believe will stick around ? That just means by this time next year (or sooner) I'll be going through all the hassle of searching for another candidate, running background checks, checking references, interviewing.. No Thanks.
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Insulation is good in walls and ceiling attic spaces.
Windows have been replaced over the last couple years.
Exterior Doors and sliding glass door replaced as well, all with energy rated replacements.
Even hung e-rated window blinds which believe it or not make a notifiable difference.
That changes helped a lot actually I think the first year we went through 3 tanks of oil to barely make it through the season. After insulation, doors and windows it dropped closer to 2 tanks a year, (50% improvement) but this winter has been unreasonably cold compared to previous years.
10 years ago it didn't cost nearly as much to fill the oil tank. I think the first year in this house it was around $360.00 to fill the 250 Gallon oil tank. With heating oil hitting close to $4.00 per gallon now, that's up to almost $1000.00 to fill the tank each time. I think my last fill bill was $960.00
No amount of insulation is going to offset that increase in oil pricing.
I converted my home to heat with Coal this year, as I can no longer afford the ridiculous cost of heating oil.
Cost to Heat Last season with heating Oil -- $2,200.00 (675 Gallons of Oil)
Cost to Heat this season after converting to Coal $660.00 (3 Tons of Coal)
Tried a pellet stove last year, it barely put out enough BTU's to heat one room in the house. That was a $3200.00 boondoggle, took a huge loss reselling the thing.
Don't mention geoThermal as the incredibly high cost of installation, plus the necessary Electrical service upgrade to support the electric booster furnace for this region, makes it unaffordable to install in an older home, like most other 'green' solutions.
Until someone finds a cost effective, affordable solution to replace these, Coal will remain king in my home.
you could make use of a live distro (Debian-live for instance) to lookup a fix on the internet and then make the corrections. re-installing the OS for a typo in a config seems a bit overkill. Plenty of live distros out there for this simple task.
I received messages from a family talking to some college student about help with his drug issues. then got in a mail exchange for the same family coordinating holiday plans, asking if I was coming home for holidays and when I would be there. I responded nicely several times telling them they had the wrong email address, and please would they all remove me from their address books, then please contact Matt in VA and get his correct email, because I am Mark and I live in OH. My plea went unanswered as they continued to include me in their messages. I finally had to RESORT TO YELLING AND BEING NASTY before they finally removed me from their correspondence. I guess being nice doesn't always work. Now if only I could get Matt to quit using my email address in the stupid redbox. There is no way to opt out of notifications from the redbox when people enter your email when renting or returning a movie. I wonder how dense you have to be to continually enter the wrong email address as your own.
ATMs keep track of how much cash is in the dispenser (entered into the system when the cash is loaded) It keeps track of all transactions, successful or failed.
The inexpensive retail ATM's we manufacture can track how much cash was dispensed if the dispense was not complete, of if there was an issue and cash was diverted from being dispensed into the reject tray. The terminal will automatically reverse a transaction if it failed to fully or partially dispense the requested cash during a transaction, and will credit the difference back to your account.
I have a hard time believing a machine that costs $1500.00 can do all that yet a $50k ATM on the side of a bank cannot. Banks also reconcile their machines nightly, comparing the cash in the Dispenser cassettes, the reject tray, and the transaction journal reports. It had better all balance. I own and operate several ATMs and I can assure you I check to ensure everything balances..
So if there was One transaction where the machine pulled back the '$300.00 you failed to remove from the machine' and everything doesn't balance, when they reconcile the machine, how hard do you really think it would be for them to figure out ? I say it would take them less than 5 minutes to find where the money went.
If what you mention was actively being exploited the banks would be loosing money and they would not sit idly by, I am positive they would be going after the manufacturer of the machine with a vengeance, and the issue wouldn't be hanging out there for 8 months..
The company I work for manufactures ATMs. Our machines do NOT run Windows or any other Commercial OS. They are fully compliant with PCI and ADA requirements. They include the headphone jack and audio prompts you mention among other requirements.
So what was the requirement that necessitated the use of Windows ? It's only a platform and is not needed to accomplish those goals. The OS used is irrelevant to ease-of-use by the disabled. The ADA guidelines state that ALL new machines manufactured after a certain date must include those features. Older machines of course are grandfathered in, due to the excessive cost of upgrading or overhauling them. f you take ANY machine out of service to replace it, it must be replaced with a terminal that meets the current guidelines.
You might be surprised to find out there were still terminals through the end of last year using only single DES encryption. At the end of the year we shut down all of the terminals we handle processing for that were not upgraded. I can't say the same for other processors or sponsor banks. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out people were still operating those insecure out of compliance terminals.
Funny the ATMs installed in the banks cost around $50k While ours are in the range of $1500.00 - $2000.00. We have manufactured to date around 6000 machines and handle processing for over 12,000 terminals (ours and other manufacturers). to date none of our machines have been subject to fraud via tampering in any fashion. that includes denomination fraud, code insertion, skimming devices.
Quite frankly the process we have to go through for certification of any hardware or software change, I don't understand how the big guys keep ending up so vulnerable. They attempt to freeze, drill, Shock, inject foreign substances, pry apart, cut open, and whatever else they can come up with to assault our terminals to ensure they are not able to be physically or electronically compromised. Do the big guys get an automatic pass on the certification process, just because of who they are ? We sure as heck don't..
The easy way to handle this would have been to have the demarcation point located in your Server room to begin with. Sounds to me like they went cheap to begin with by not having the teleco drop it directly into the server room. What I did at our facility is have all phone and data circuits terminate in the Server room as the main demarcation point. the phone company was more than happy to do this provided I supplied them with a 4" diameter conduit from the entry point at the side of the building to the destination. They then proceeded to insert a single 1/2" diameter cable to provide all my circuits through this conduit. On the upside I never have to worry about extending a line, and the phone company is responsible for the circuit right into my data center. from which point I can use any standard 20' Patch cable to reach any of the telecommunications or Data com equipment. I designed to avoid having to customize cables.
The 4" conduit still baffles me though.. it's so big for such a tiny cable.
That being said, as others have stated. Do what the boss wants,
You should get to know your local FBI agents, you will get a better feel for the cases they work. you might change your opinion when you see the variety of different cases they pursue. Join a local chapter of Infragard so you can become informed. Most interesting are the sessions where they break down a case from beginning to end, explaining how and why they got involved, the course of the investigation, and how they closed the case. FBI Agent even have a pretty good sense of humor believe it or not..
Here in Cleveland they DO go after political corruption (The number of local raids this year has been astonishing), Child porn, Computer based Crimes, the list goes on and on.. The decision to accept or not accept a case is sometimes determined by the Financial losses incurred, Of course that criteria would not apply to all types of crimes.
I hope you aren't basing your opinion off of how the FBI is portrayed on television and in the movies. If so then maybe you believe Wolverine is a real person too...
Well those numbers are certainly skewed as usual.
Why do I say that ? Well I purchased a netbook with Windows on it, wiped it and loaded Linux. Why did I buy the Windows netbook when it's available with Linux ? Because the Linux version of the same netbook had lower specs, for memory and storage. So yes my purchase contributed to that 90% figure, but due to users like myself that 90% figure is not accurate. there are quite a few people that did the same thing as me, they didn't feel they should be shorted on Secs just because they planned to run Linux on their Netbook.
Why won't manufacturers offer identically configured Hardware with Linux or Windows OS options ?
I believe that will be for a limited time with restrictions. as in, If you buy your new PC from an OEM within 90 Days of the Windows 7 release you might qualify for the free upgrade.. but you will have to notify the OEM at time of purchase that you want the free upgrade to Windows 7
The actual free upgrade program may be better or worse then my speculation of it, time will tell..
There is no way they will extend that free upgrade to ALL Vista users, as nice as that would be..
I really enjoyed the firefly series after purchasing it on DVD, and watching the episodes in order. FOX seemed to do everything in their power to kill this show..
1. Friday night scheduling.
2. Airing the episodes out of order.. I mean HELLO ?? The order was 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 1; with 11 â" 13 unaired
The wikipedia entry for Firefly contains more detailed criticism of Fox for their treatment of this series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_episodes
Fox is definitely the last place you want to try out a new series. It's hard to start watching a new series on their network, knowing their track record for killing off anything that might be halfway decent.. Why bother getting interested in a show that won't be around tomorrow ?
So I'm in Best Buy last week and I decided to browse the PC game isle for something that would run on my Linux system. I see Enemy Territory Quake Wars (ETQW) (released Oct 07) and the price is $49.99 Ouch.. I browsed a bit more and see a special edition version of the same game for $29.99 so I bought it. Grabbed the Linux installer from the net and started playing the game.. So far so good !!
I stop in MicroCenter over the weekend and see ETQW for $4.99. I immediately bitched and moaned, was really glad i hadn't done the impulse buy of the $50.00 version. I then bought 4 more copies from Microcenter for my friends and nephews so we can all get online and play together.. so my total investment now is $50.00 / 5 games $10.00 per copy.
I imagine I could have looked for a key gen on the net and installed from my disc onto their machines, but For $5.00 why not make em all legit ? I should know better than to even look in BB for anything PC related.. it was an impulse decision because I hadn't bought a new PC game for a while. I too am gun-shy of dropping $60.00 on a game that bites..
The last game I pre-ordered (savage2) had the minimum system specs change before release and the game wouldn't run on my hardware. They now give that game away for free, and it still won't run on my machine. That game was release around the same time as ETQW
Who would have thought a game couldn't step down and run on a geforce 6800 ? yes the card is old, but it's the fastest one I can get for an AGP slot, a video card upgrade means a full system upgrade at this point. Since the PC runs so well I haven't been able to justify the expense to myself.
Of course he only sniffed the data and didn't make a fake passport.. If merely sniffing the data proves your point, why would you subject yourself to penalties for forgery ?
I certainly would have stopped at successfully sniffing the data. besides all a terrorist has to do is rig the bomb so it will automatically go off when it detects a pre-specified number of US RFID passports in the vicinity.. Now, don't you feel that RFID in your passport has made you more secure ?
Summary calls it LVHM, but the company website AND both news stories call it LVMH.
http://www.lvmh.com/
At the very least if you are going to capitalize the company reference multiple times throughout the article, please work on getting the 4 letters in the correct order..
You have been able to do that in the US for years.. You have to pay for the tax stamp. I have several friends with fully automatic firearms, as well as silencers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act Quite frankly though with the price of ammo these days I'll pass on the fully automatic weapons. What I want to find is a 45-70 Rolling block with vernier sights. anyone have one of these for sale or trade ? Single shot black powder cartridge.(think Quigley down under)
It's funny that I get Resumes via email in some bizarre formats, some of which I am unable to open with any program I have installed. Resumes show up as Word Perfect documents (would be more understandable if I worked for a Law Firm), they show up in MS Works writer format, and a few formats I have yet to identify. Invariably though the resume will state the applicants proficiency with Microsoft Office.....
.odt format. .pdf for sending out documents.
.rtf files.
.doc format files to resume submissions when they specifically request that format.
We also receive documents from from other companies in Office 2003, or 2007 formats that just won't open with stock office 2000..
MS demonstrates their amazing backwards compatibility with their own office suite yet again !!
Personally I use OpenOffice and save in
If someone will need to edit a document, I will send it in rich text format, because EVERY word processor I have ever used (except maybe the original appleworks) seems to be able to open and edit
I reserve sending out
http://www.noooxml.org/petition
If MS wants to put forth a standard File format for ISO approval, Thats just fine. Make them FIX the problems in their proposed standard before trying to ram it through..
Nothing better than sending Word 2007 Documents to your Business partners who are still running Office 2000, and discovering they can't open and read your documents.. Hurray for compatibility !
Completely agree with this. Whenever I receive an email from another manager and they have CC'd my supervisor, I tend to take that as an unprovoked attack on me, and I immediately am put in an adversarial stance with that colleague. I don't know about the rest of you, but I would think it's in your best interest to stay on the GOOD side of the IT manager, and department as a whole. Sure if you give us grief your problems will still get resolved eventually, it si part of our job. On the other hand if you don't give us crap all the time your problems tend to get solved a bit faster..
People that CC or BCC up the chain all the time really tick me off. If you have a problem with me, man up and come talk to me about it. I'm a pretty reasonable person until you start resorting to attacks on me personally or professionally. I also don't tend to leave myself open so that an attack of that type would be effective, I wasn't born yesterday, and I've seen people like you before CC'ing, brown-nosing, screw everyone else on your way to the top with your "it's all about me.. " attitude.
In this thread, I agree the email response to your manager is appropriate, do NOT CC or BCC up the chain unless you can not get a resolution with your manager. If your manager refuses to address the license compliance issue, then and only then should you think about moving up the managerial chain. This may be his personal view for saving the company money, the company as a whole may have other, more ethical views. Don't immediately write off the entire company because one manager doesn't want to spend his departmental budget on licensing, he is wrong, and he knows he is wrong.
So he's saying we can play legally purchased, store bought DVD's on our Linux boxes right ? I mean that should be covered under fair use....
If you can legally circumvent DRM under the fair-use provision to make a COPY of a DVD as a 'backup', then circumventing that same DRM to simply playback a movie should be a non-issue
I'm thinking I must have missed something along the way. I have not seen a news report that said Cho was a gamer and played 'violent' video games.. So how can these video games, that as far as I can tell he didn't even play, supposed to have caused the rampage of this lunatic ?
taking away the means for the public to defend themselves doesn't solve the problem of some wacko wanting to hurt people for no apparent reason.
Debian - Gives the user control to choose what they want to use, more packages more options..
Ubuntu - Makes most of the initial choices for the user..
Debian - manual configuration of a lot of items..
Ubuntu - a bit better at auto-configuration of hardware.
Debian - Etch 20,400+ Packages in the official repository
Ubuntu - Fiesty I think it's around 6000 Packages but can't find a stat anywhere to confirm exact munber.
Debian 13 hardware Architectures i386, x86-64, PowerPC, 68k, SPARC, DEC Alpha, ARM, MIPS, HPPA, S390, IA-64, AMD64, Intel EM64T
Ubuntu 3 Hardware Architectures i386, AMD64, PowerPC,
I've used child distros in the past an always ran into problems. I would then switch to the parent distros to get away from the problems.. So I use Debian rather than one of it's numerous children to prevent a repeat of my previous experiences. http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
If you had your email filter enabled to automatically blacklist or delete messages from these firms you wouldn't have received the notice or request for subpoena either..
I can't imagine that before this time either party has sent her anything nice, so why would she bother accepting any email from them at all ?
And how much did your last full software support plan for 50 servers run from Microsoft ? SCO ?
I'm not talking purchase price, but Full software support for one year ?
I recall spending 3 Million US for an Enterprise licensing agreement with MS and not having any Support services included..
No matter who the vendor is, support is always extra these days..
If you read the details of that 10K offering there is quite a bit in there...
One of the first things I look at when I review a resume is "How long has this individual worked at their previous jobs ? "
If I see multiple jobs of a Year or less, I just throw the resume right then and there. Why should I as an employer Hire someone I don't believe will stick around ? That just means by this time next year (or sooner) I'll be going through all the hassle of searching for another candidate, running background checks, checking references, interviewing.. No Thanks.