You might look into an anti-telemarketer service. I have Qwest and they call it "Privacy Plus", it's a service bundled with caller ID for $9.95/month. If someone calls, and their caller ID info is unavailable, it prompts them to press a button and record their name. Then, the system will double-ring my phone, play their name, and ask me to press 1 to accept or 2 to decline the call.
The beauty is, most telemarketers can't press the 1 button to speak their name, so your phone never rings. I've gotten two unwanted calls in all the time I've had it (2+ years), one was from the University I work for, asking me to donate money (they had legit caller ID info), and the other night I had someone from the Special Olympics get through, who apparently wasn't using an autodialer. I just pressed the 2 button, and the computer voice told him to shove off.
Yeah, it's a bit pricey, but I'd rather not spend my time running to the phone to deal with those people. I also don't own an answering machine or voice mail, I have a cell phone with those features, and if it's important, and you have to leave me a message, you'll know my cell phone number. Otherwise, you can e-mail me.
I'd ditch the landline completely, but I have two TiVos that depend on it.:(
No, you'd have to have a hole in your head to buy the retail version with Product Activation, when you can use the corporate version that lacks it, just get your employer to buy you a license.:)
I agree, the USPS was selling Looney Tunes stamps a couple of years ago, and you can bet that AOL Time-Warner was pulling in some cash from that. There were also tie-ins for The Grinch movie all over our local Post Office, so I don't really see the significance of Microsoft not-so-boldly going where several corporations have gone before...
I got into the X-Files during the 2nd or 3rd season, while I was in college. I loved it, never missed an episode, and loved trying to figure out what happens next. I kept thinking that Carter was going to tie it all together, that there was some story arc going on that was so big I couldn't even see it all, and that at least a few of the plot lines would come together.
Sadly, several years later, I still watch every week via my TiVo, but I do so only because I invested so much time before. Don't get me wrong, I like what Patrick and Gish have brought to the series, and though I miss Duchovny it's not about that either. I've come to realize that the Emperor has no clothes. Carter just drops some acid, pulls some wild conspiracy theory out of his ass for the week, and writes an episode. Nothing is resolved, nothing is explained, nothing even ties into another episode, you can watch them in almost any order.
The only way Carter could possibly redeem himself is by making a 2-3 hour movie that opens right after the series ends, that ties everything together, brings back Duchovny, explains the aliens/bounty hunters, Scully's Baby, Mulder's sister, Patrick's son, and whether chewing gum loses its flavor on the bedpost overnight.
As it is now, I'll kind of plod through it, fast forwarding through the slow parts, and yelling at the TV every 15 minutes. The Cigarette Smoking Man has won...
That would be handy, but then you'd be twice as pissed when the same moderator who disses your story on Thursday posts the story two days later. At least I can understand two people having different opinions of whether or not a story is news, but when it's the same person, it just seems so arbitrary...
Yes, but you're overlooking the genetic engineering we've been doing for the last several thousand years.
Seedless Grapes - Don't occur in nature, they were obtained through selective breeding. Pretty obvious there, without seeds, they can't very well succeed on their own.
Cattle without horns - Again, selective breeding was used to create safer cattle without horns, but we hardly refer to them as genetically modified.
While I agree that you have to be careful with what you're throwing into the genetic mix, please don't make it sound like there was some magic spell of perfection cast over our food supply until the Bio-Tech industry came along.
I haven't been able to confirm existence of this worm either. Has anything shown up on any other security site? I'm still at work, hoping for some virus defs so I can update all our machines before I go home for the night...
On my Sega Genesis, I found this code to work for Strider, after I saw a similar trick for another game in a magazine.
1. Turn on your Genesis with Altered Beast in the catridge slot, when it got to the screen with the statues, pull the cartridge out with the power still on. (Don't blame me if you wreck something.)
2. Put in your Strider cartridge, and push the rest key.
3. There is no step 3. Just start playing, you now have infinite lives, though you're stuck playing at the hardest difficulty setting.
I wish I could remember the first game I saw this trick for, and I never did see it published in a magazine, though I sent it in to a few...
Another helpful tip, and one that saves us TONS of work as IT staff, is to disable active scripting on the Windows computers that your users use. We have a line in our Netware login scripts that does just this. It disables all the visual basic script stuff, thereby reducing most of the worms to harmless text files. I've never once had a user notice, and have a reason to use Visual Basic scripts....
We use that, in conjunction with Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition, and some diligence on my part in grabbing the newest definitions as soon as a big worm spreads, and we haven't even had to physically visit one of our 350 computers since May due to a virus/worm infestation.
Oh, and Outlook/Outlook Express is fine, if you take the time to set your users up so they cant open executable attachments. Blame the IT support staff in places that have them. I don't know who to blame when it comes to home users, but having a copy of Norton Antivirus 2002, which updates automatically every 4 hours, will go a LONG ways to stopping most of these things within the first 24 hours...
Oh come on, Wil was on the Star Trek episode of Weakest Link on Monday, which was pretty funny. Shatner got voted out pretty quickly, though. I don't think Denise Crosby should have been on it, she was only on one season of ST:TNG, couldn't they have gotten Marina Sirtis or somebody who'd actually put in a full tour of duty?
Wil was hilarious on the show, and did pretty well, though I think it was LeVar Burton who beat Robert Picardo for the $$$. It's too bad Shatner got voted off when he did, I would have loved for him to get the toupee question that went to Armin Shimmerman.
I make all of my users responsible for their own data. THey all have a network drive that we keep backed up, but they're taught to expect hard drive failure at anytime, and we're not going to pay to resurrect the data that's on there, so they'd better keep a backup of anything that's not stored on a network drive.
That said, I might give someone a newer version of Windows without asking, but I would never switch a user from Linux to Windows without telling them first, mostly because I wouldn't want to deal with the next 250 questions from them as they try to learn how to do all the things they already knew how to do in Windows.
Competition does wonderful things for broadband access. I live in Cedar Falls, Iowa, which runs its own cable and broadband company, they offer cable modem service for $30 a month. AT&T also provides service in the area, and that's who I had for the last two years, until I finally moved to an area serviced by both companies. The difference in service is remarkable.
With AT&T, my connection went down daily for months at a time, and if you ever did have a problem, they wanted you to wait two weeks for them to roll a truck to your house.
I've had one outage in the three months I've had CFU, and that was due to my modem failing. I noticed the problem at 7:10 p.m., called it in, and I was back online at 7:40 p.m. after one of their techs brought a new modem to my house and installed it for me. Try getting that kind of service out of AT&T.
Their lower price has forced AT&T to keep their prices low, as well. AT&T only charges $30 for service here, which often confuses their customer service reps, as we're one of the very few places that have service offered at that price.
It's much easier to get good service out of small local companies than out of the big conglomerates, and it's convenient having my internet access come on the same bill as my water, power, gas, etc.
Jeeze, I just put postmaster@whatever.com so that hopefully the Spam won't leave their network and clog the Internet. I bet the Postmaster@real.com is getting really sick of getting all that mail from his own company.:)
I've run into the same problem with Media Player, as well as RealPlayer, and a few others. The workaround I've found is to designate the screen you want to display the video on as the "Primary display" in the Desktop Properties control panel. Then you can watch videos on that display. It's a little annoying if you don't really want it as your "primary" display, but it'lll let you watch the videos okay, while continuing to work on your other monitor.
Looking through my logs, I think it's more likely that it is home users that are infected now, a lot of DSL users on dynamic IP addresses are hitting me.
I haven't seen it posted here on Slashdot yet, but there's a neat little Java Applet (it's even GPL) over at:
It auto-replies to any machine that tries an.ida exploit against you, popping up a Net Send message on the computer, so hopefully someone will notice and patch the machine...
It took me over half an hour to figure out how to change the background too. You have to bring the Finder to the forefront, and then you click on Preferences under the Finder menu. Not very intuitive, in my book. Why wasn't it under display properties or Appearance in the control panel?
Are you buying the Dimension line or the Optiplex line from Dell? The Dimension line changes rapidly, and is geared towards home users. If you're looking for long-term availability of the exact same model, you need to buy the Optiplex computers. As a bonus, the cases are much easier to work on, too...
All of the secrecy surrounding the Apple product roadmap really turns me off. I'm an IT person at a public university, and I do the buik of the computer purchasing for 7 academic departments.
Our Dell rep was more than happy to show me their product roadmaps for the next 12 months, so I could plan when I wanted to buy machines, and how long I could expect for each model to be around. It was even accurate, it predicted the mini-tower Optiplex GX150 would be released on March 23, and it was. I saw that on the roadmap back in January...
Try getting Apple to give you that kind of detail. I hate how Apple has to turn each minor revision of their product line into an "event". And, before you start calling me a PC bigot, know that I'm typing this from my shiny new iBook that I bought with my own money (running OS X) and reading slashdot over my AirPort base station connection while sitting in bed.
Apple needs to take a lesson from Dell, they're computers, not spy planes or nuclear missile codes, is that extreme level of secrecy really necessary? I feel really sorry for any chump who bought the $3500 G4 733mhz the day before the MacWorld NY keynote. 24 hours later, a machine witht he same CPU sold for $1699. That's just being cruel to your customers in my book...
Apple also needs to make 3 year warranties more affordable. It cost $237 to increase my warranty to three years on my iBook, but laptops take too much abuse to be without an extended warranty.
And, as long as I'm wishing, Apple needs some more enterprise-strength management features for their computers. Mac Manager and ASIP don't provide anywhere near the level of control that an ActiveDirectory domain does...
Yep, I got my XT from my parents in the 7th grade as an Xmas gift. It was made by Commodore, and was semi-IBM Compatible. It actually kicked ass, it has 640KB RAM, and a 20MB hard drive. Most of my friends had 256K or at most 512K at that time.
What really pissed me off, was after I'd had the computer about a year and a half, I was flipping through the manual, and an addendum fell out that said "You can double the CPU speed at any time by pressing Ctrl-Alt-D". It was actually a Turbo XT, capable of 9.44 mhz, and I'd been running it at 4.77 mhz all that time! I don't know why Commodore set up the system so the default was the slow speed. I guess that's why they're not in business anymore...
The monitor was cool too, because it could be used on an Amiga as well, so it had composite inputs, including stereo sound via the built-in speakers. The PC had composite video out, so I was able to play MS Flight Simulator & Battle Chess in glorious (but fuzzy) 16 color mode instead of 4 color CGA mode through the standard input. I was also able to hook my NES & a VCR up to the monitor, so I could watch TV at my computer, by flipping a switch on the monitor. Very handy during those incredibly slow backups to 360KB floppy disks...
That reminds me, someone should remake the Lucasarts classic "Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain" it'd still be a great game today, only needing updated graphics and online play.
Oh, and I can't forget Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator (before the Air Combat game). I spent many hours on that PC before getting my 386SX a few years later.
I like Dell machines a lot, and use them exclusively at work (I buy all of our new systems). But, I just bought an iBook for my personal laptop. It's the first Mac I've ever owned, and I like it a lot. I got the DVD model ($1449 for Education users) and I'm quite happy in OS X.
I'll be happier when the 10.1 update is released in September, but I love the small form factor, the light weight, and the AirPort wireless networking. The unfortunate thing about the Dell machines is that you can't have both an internal network card and an internal wi-fi card, at least not at this time.
The biggest drawback to my iBook is the cost of the 3 year AppleCare warranty. $237 is a major rip off to extend your warranty two more years. OS 9.1 sucks too, but I don't use it except to play DVDs and to configure AirPort base stations.
In short, don't sell Apple's iBook short, I'm pretty happy with mine, and I've been a Pee-Cee user since I got my XT in the 7th grade.
Since when does a sugarpill induce vomiting, nausea, headaches in 0.0001% of patients studied?
Having both a degree in Psychology, and working in an IT job, I'd bet that it's more like 1% of patients reporting a lot of this stuff. My grandmother swore that Sudafed made her drowsy, never mind that it's a stimulant. People always like to blame their meds for causing some problem with them. They'll report that the test drug caused diahhrea, and forget to mention that they ate four pounds of greasy Mexican food the night before.
Kind of like the users who swear that installing the latest version of Netscape caused their printer to break.
In short, you'd be surprised at the large large number of people who don't or can't grasp the concept that correlation doesn't equal causation. ---
The easiest way to update installations of Office 2000 and Office XP is to go to http://office.microsoft.com/ and click on Product Updates in the upper right hand corner.
It will scan your machine and tell you what updates you need to install, much like Windows Update does. It's a very handy tool, especially for those of us in IT, when we can't remember exactly what patches were put on which disk images... ---
Yes, we have phones, but it takes a lot longer to say:
"Hey, check out http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/07/10/18322 31&cid=93, there's some info about MSN there"
Slashdot Mirror
You might look into an anti-telemarketer service. I have Qwest and they call it "Privacy Plus", it's a service bundled with caller ID for $9.95/month. If someone calls, and their caller ID info is unavailable, it prompts them to press a button and record their name. Then, the system will double-ring my phone, play their name, and ask me to press 1 to accept or 2 to decline the call.
:(
The beauty is, most telemarketers can't press the 1 button to speak their name, so your phone never rings. I've gotten two unwanted calls in all the time I've had it (2+ years), one was from the University I work for, asking me to donate money (they had legit caller ID info), and the other night I had someone from the Special Olympics get through, who apparently wasn't using an autodialer. I just pressed the 2 button, and the computer voice told him to shove off.
Yeah, it's a bit pricey, but I'd rather not spend my time running to the phone to deal with those people. I also don't own an answering machine or voice mail, I have a cell phone with those features, and if it's important, and you have to leave me a message, you'll know my cell phone number. Otherwise, you can e-mail me.
I'd ditch the landline completely, but I have two TiVos that depend on it.
No, you'd have to have a hole in your head to buy the retail version with Product Activation, when you can use the corporate version that lacks it, just get your employer to buy you a license. :)
I agree, the USPS was selling Looney Tunes stamps a couple of years ago, and you can bet that AOL Time-Warner was pulling in some cash from that. There were also tie-ins for The Grinch movie all over our local Post Office, so I don't really see the significance of Microsoft not-so-boldly going where several corporations have gone before...
I got into the X-Files during the 2nd or 3rd season, while I was in college. I loved it, never missed an episode, and loved trying to figure out what happens next. I kept thinking that Carter was going to tie it all together, that there was some story arc going on that was so big I couldn't even see it all, and that at least a few of the plot lines would come together.
Sadly, several years later, I still watch every week via my TiVo, but I do so only because I invested so much time before. Don't get me wrong, I like what Patrick and Gish have brought to the series, and though I miss Duchovny it's not about that either. I've come to realize that the Emperor has no clothes. Carter just drops some acid, pulls some wild conspiracy theory out of his ass for the week, and writes an episode. Nothing is resolved, nothing is explained, nothing even ties into another episode, you can watch them in almost any order.
The only way Carter could possibly redeem himself is by making a 2-3 hour movie that opens right after the series ends, that ties everything together, brings back Duchovny, explains the aliens/bounty hunters, Scully's Baby, Mulder's sister, Patrick's son, and whether chewing gum loses its flavor on the bedpost overnight.
As it is now, I'll kind of plod through it, fast forwarding through the slow parts, and yelling at the TV every 15 minutes. The Cigarette Smoking Man has won...
That would be handy, but then you'd be twice as pissed when the same moderator who disses your story on Thursday posts the story two days later. At least I can understand two people having different opinions of whether or not a story is news, but when it's the same person, it just seems so arbitrary...
I've been waiting for this, better dump the few ST:TNG Laserdiscs I have on eBay right away.
Oh, and I submitted this several days ago:
* 2002-01-11 11:58:47 ST:TNG DVD Sets Officially Announced (articles,tv) (rejected)
Yes, but you're overlooking the genetic engineering we've been doing for the last several thousand years.
Seedless Grapes - Don't occur in nature, they were obtained through selective breeding. Pretty obvious there, without seeds, they can't very well succeed on their own.
Cattle without horns - Again, selective breeding was used to create safer cattle without horns, but we hardly refer to them as genetically modified.
While I agree that you have to be careful with what you're throwing into the genetic mix, please don't make it sound like there was some magic spell of perfection cast over our food supply until the Bio-Tech industry came along.
I haven't been able to confirm existence of this worm either. Has anything shown up on any other security site? I'm still at work, hoping for some virus defs so I can update all our machines before I go home for the night...
On my Sega Genesis, I found this code to work for Strider, after I saw a similar trick for another game in a magazine.
1. Turn on your Genesis with Altered Beast in the catridge slot, when it got to the screen with the statues, pull the cartridge out with the power still on. (Don't blame me if you wreck something.)
2. Put in your Strider cartridge, and push the rest key.
3. There is no step 3. Just start playing, you now have infinite lives, though you're stuck playing at the hardest difficulty setting.
I wish I could remember the first game I saw this trick for, and I never did see it published in a magazine, though I sent it in to a few...
Another helpful tip, and one that saves us TONS of work as IT staff, is to disable active scripting on the Windows computers that your users use. We have a line in our Netware login scripts that does just this. It disables all the visual basic script stuff, thereby reducing most of the worms to harmless text files. I've never once had a user notice, and have a reason to use Visual Basic scripts....
We use that, in conjunction with Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition, and some diligence on my part in grabbing the newest definitions as soon as a big worm spreads, and we haven't even had to physically visit one of our 350 computers since May due to a virus/worm infestation.
Oh, and Outlook/Outlook Express is fine, if you take the time to set your users up so they cant open executable attachments. Blame the IT support staff in places that have them. I don't know who to blame when it comes to home users, but having a copy of Norton Antivirus 2002, which updates automatically every 4 hours, will go a LONG ways to stopping most of these things within the first 24 hours...
Oh come on, Wil was on the Star Trek episode of Weakest Link on Monday, which was pretty funny. Shatner got voted out pretty quickly, though. I don't think Denise Crosby should have been on it, she was only on one season of ST:TNG, couldn't they have gotten Marina Sirtis or somebody who'd actually put in a full tour of duty?
Wil was hilarious on the show, and did pretty well, though I think it was LeVar Burton who beat Robert Picardo for the $$$. It's too bad Shatner got voted off when he did, I would have loved for him to get the toupee question that went to Armin Shimmerman.
I make all of my users responsible for their own data. THey all have a network drive that we keep backed up, but they're taught to expect hard drive failure at anytime, and we're not going to pay to resurrect the data that's on there, so they'd better keep a backup of anything that's not stored on a network drive.
That said, I might give someone a newer version of Windows without asking, but I would never switch a user from Linux to Windows without telling them first, mostly because I wouldn't want to deal with the next 250 questions from them as they try to learn how to do all the things they already knew how to do in Windows.
Competition does wonderful things for broadband access. I live in Cedar Falls, Iowa, which runs its own cable and broadband company, they offer cable modem service for $30 a month. AT&T also provides service in the area, and that's who I had for the last two years, until I finally moved to an area serviced by both companies. The difference in service is remarkable.
With AT&T, my connection went down daily for months at a time, and if you ever did have a problem, they wanted you to wait two weeks for them to roll a truck to your house.
I've had one outage in the three months I've had CFU, and that was due to my modem failing. I noticed the problem at 7:10 p.m., called it in, and I was back online at 7:40 p.m. after one of their techs brought a new modem to my house and installed it for me. Try getting that kind of service out of AT&T.
Their lower price has forced AT&T to keep their prices low, as well. AT&T only charges $30 for service here, which often confuses their customer service reps, as we're one of the very few places that have service offered at that price.
It's much easier to get good service out of small local companies than out of the big conglomerates, and it's convenient having my internet access come on the same bill as my water, power, gas, etc.
Jeeze, I just put postmaster@whatever.com so that hopefully the Spam won't leave their network and clog the Internet. I bet the Postmaster@real.com is getting really sick of getting all that mail from his own company. :)
I've run into the same problem with Media Player, as well as RealPlayer, and a few others. The workaround I've found is to designate the screen you want to display the video on as the "Primary display" in the Desktop Properties control panel. Then you can watch videos on that display. It's a little annoying if you don't really want it as your "primary" display, but it'lll let you watch the videos okay, while continuing to work on your other monitor.
Looking through my logs, I think it's more likely that it is home users that are infected now, a lot of DSL users on dynamic IP addresses are hitting me.
.ida exploit against you, popping up a Net Send message on the computer, so hopefully someone will notice and patch the machine...
I haven't seen it posted here on Slashdot yet, but there's a neat little Java Applet (it's even GPL) over at:
http://www.dynwebdev.com/codered/
It auto-replies to any machine that tries an
It took me over half an hour to figure out how to change the background too. You have to bring the Finder to the forefront, and then you click on Preferences under the Finder menu. Not very intuitive, in my book. Why wasn't it under display properties or Appearance in the control panel?
Are you buying the Dimension line or the Optiplex line from Dell? The Dimension line changes rapidly, and is geared towards home users. If you're looking for long-term availability of the exact same model, you need to buy the Optiplex computers. As a bonus, the cases are much easier to work on, too...
All of the secrecy surrounding the Apple product roadmap really turns me off. I'm an IT person at a public university, and I do the buik of the computer purchasing for 7 academic departments.
Our Dell rep was more than happy to show me their product roadmaps for the next 12 months, so I could plan when I wanted to buy machines, and how long I could expect for each model to be around. It was even accurate, it predicted the mini-tower Optiplex GX150 would be released on March 23, and it was. I saw that on the roadmap back in January...
Try getting Apple to give you that kind of detail. I hate how Apple has to turn each minor revision of their product line into an "event". And, before you start calling me a PC bigot, know that I'm typing this from my shiny new iBook that I bought with my own money (running OS X) and reading slashdot over my AirPort base station connection while sitting in bed.
Apple needs to take a lesson from Dell, they're computers, not spy planes or nuclear missile codes, is that extreme level of secrecy really necessary? I feel really sorry for any chump who bought the $3500 G4 733mhz the day before the MacWorld NY keynote. 24 hours later, a machine witht he same CPU sold for $1699. That's just being cruel to your customers in my book...
Apple also needs to make 3 year warranties more affordable. It cost $237 to increase my warranty to three years on my iBook, but laptops take too much abuse to be without an extended warranty.
And, as long as I'm wishing, Apple needs some more enterprise-strength management features for their computers. Mac Manager and ASIP don't provide anywhere near the level of control that an ActiveDirectory domain does...
Yep, I got my XT from my parents in the 7th grade as an Xmas gift. It was made by Commodore, and was semi-IBM Compatible. It actually kicked ass, it has 640KB RAM, and a 20MB hard drive. Most of my friends had 256K or at most 512K at that time.
What really pissed me off, was after I'd had the computer about a year and a half, I was flipping through the manual, and an addendum fell out that said "You can double the CPU speed at any time by pressing Ctrl-Alt-D". It was actually a Turbo XT, capable of 9.44 mhz, and I'd been running it at 4.77 mhz all that time! I don't know why Commodore set up the system so the default was the slow speed. I guess that's why they're not in business anymore...
The monitor was cool too, because it could be used on an Amiga as well, so it had composite inputs, including stereo sound via the built-in speakers. The PC had composite video out, so I was able to play MS Flight Simulator & Battle Chess in glorious (but fuzzy) 16 color mode instead of 4 color CGA mode through the standard input. I was also able to hook my NES & a VCR up to the monitor, so I could watch TV at my computer, by flipping a switch on the monitor. Very handy during those incredibly slow backups to 360KB floppy disks...
That reminds me, someone should remake the Lucasarts classic "Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain" it'd still be a great game today, only needing updated graphics and online play.
Oh, and I can't forget Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator (before the Air Combat game). I spent many hours on that PC before getting my 386SX a few years later.
I like Dell machines a lot, and use them exclusively at work (I buy all of our new systems). But, I just bought an iBook for my personal laptop. It's the first Mac I've ever owned, and I like it a lot. I got the DVD model ($1449 for Education users) and I'm quite happy in OS X.
I'll be happier when the 10.1 update is released in September, but I love the small form factor, the light weight, and the AirPort wireless networking. The unfortunate thing about the Dell machines is that you can't have both an internal network card and an internal wi-fi card, at least not at this time.
The biggest drawback to my iBook is the cost of the 3 year AppleCare warranty. $237 is a major rip off to extend your warranty two more years. OS 9.1 sucks too, but I don't use it except to play DVDs and to configure AirPort base stations.
In short, don't sell Apple's iBook short, I'm pretty happy with mine, and I've been a Pee-Cee user since I got my XT in the 7th grade.
Since when does a sugarpill induce vomiting, nausea, headaches in 0.0001% of patients studied?
Having both a degree in Psychology, and working in an IT job, I'd bet that it's more like 1% of patients reporting a lot of this stuff. My grandmother swore that Sudafed made her drowsy, never mind that it's a stimulant. People always like to blame their meds for causing some problem with them. They'll report that the test drug caused diahhrea, and forget to mention that they ate four pounds of greasy Mexican food the night before.
Kind of like the users who swear that installing the latest version of Netscape caused their printer to break.
In short, you'd be surprised at the large large number of people who don't or can't grasp the concept that correlation doesn't equal causation.
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The easiest way to update installations of Office 2000 and Office XP is to go to http://office.microsoft.com/ and click on Product Updates in the upper right hand corner.
It will scan your machine and tell you what updates you need to install, much like Windows Update does. It's a very handy tool, especially for those of us in IT, when we can't remember exactly what patches were put on which disk images...
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iMac: $999
OS X: Included with the iMac
Sendmail: Free
Factual Slashdot Post: Priceless
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Yes, we have phones, but it takes a lot longer to say:2 31&cid=93, there's some info about MSN there"
:)
"Hey, check out http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/07/10/1832
than it does to copy and paste it.
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