I had the same issues where my bookmarks and tabs wouldn't work after the Firefox 2.0 upgrade. The fix that I could figure out was to uninstall Firefox, and then reinstall. All my bookmarks were still there and it wasn't lost.
I work for a University and we used to be a member of Internet2. While it was nice to have high-speed connections to other members of the Internet2, we quit because of the high costs and we could not justify the costs for a small University with less than 5,000 students.
It costs at least $300,000 minimum per year to join Internet2. The fees are as follows:
Additional fees are assessed depending on which GigaPop you would be connected to (http://eng.internet2.edu/gigapoplist.html). The quote I had to become a member with one Gigapop was approximately $75,000 an year, plus local loop costs.
It's very difficult for us, and probably most Universities, to justify spending over $300,000 a year to become a member of Internet2. Until Internet2 can be better managed and lower costs, I do not foresee Internet2 becoming popular anytime soon.
I think Louis Vuitton should not be suing Google, instead, it should be suing the companies who post the adwords that violate trademarks. For example, if Dior decides to have an advertisement appear when someone searches for "Louis Vuitton" then perhaps Louis Vuitton should sue Dior for infringing on their trademark.
If Dior put a full-page ad in New York Times encouraging people to buy Dior instead of Louis Vuitton, does that mean that the New York Times is responsible for violating the trademark, or would it be Dior?
traceroute research.microsoft.com traceroute to research.microsoft.com (131.107.65.14), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 gallgtwy (134.231.4.2) 592.570 ms 40.421 ms 9.430 ms
2 gallgw (192.26.10.1) 0.557 ms 0.540 ms 0.459 ms
3 d3-2-1-1.a00.mclnva02.us.ra.verio.net (168.143.233.85) 1.308 ms 1.188 ms [Lines deleted]
Verio is our Internet uplink.
If I go to UMD, my network goes through I2 with 1ms ping times.:)
traceroute www.umd.edu traceroute to websrv1.umd.edu (128.8.10.105), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 gallgtwy (134.231.4.2) 2.251 ms 2.226 ms 2.689 ms
2 gallgw (192.26.10.1) 0.870 ms 0.613 ms 0.488 ms
3 clpk-t3-1-3-2.maxgigapop.net (206.196.177.133) 1.490 ms 1.484 ms 1.570 ms
4 wash-umcp.maxgigapop.net (206.196.177.50) 5.203 ms 380.967 ms 8.777 ms
5 Vlan14.css-core-r1.net.umd.edu (128.8.7.193) 1.767 ms 1.666 ms 1.577 ms
6 websrv1.umd.edu (128.8.10.105) 1.792 ms 1.631 ms 1.604 ms
This is my understanding from a friend of mine who used to work as a systems administrator with a unnamed representative with a person in the Senate.
He reads all emails that comes in and states he gets about 100 to 300 emails a day. He then prints out (yes, prints out!) the emails he deems important and hands them to the congressional aides.
The congressional aides review it and if they deem it worthy, they will give it to the Senator, or bring it up in a meeting.
Basically the things he filters for:
1) If the person is not a constitutent in the state, the letter is deleted. So yes, including your address is important. He says more than half of the emails is obtained from people out of the state. They dont want to hear from other people outside the state as they dont care -- you dont vote for them, you cant vote against them, whats the point of wasting time on your email?
2) If it is not relevant (e.g. not about a bill specifically, or a general concern in the state) then it is discarded
3) When more than 10 (rough number) people complain about a similar thing, it seems to generate more attention into the issue/matter and tidbits will most likely be mentioned to the senator.
So with one senator, there is a process where the email is filtered twice (probably a little more than that) so the message that reaches the senator might be diluted a bit.
If you want to complain about bills in states you do not reside in, dont bother, find people in the states to submit your complaint.
All those legal disclaimers is there for a reason. Forget something little, and it could be the grounds for a lawsuit against your company. Being too friendly is not good because it can open loopholes against your company.
Do I like it? No, but its a litigious world. People will sue for whatever reason they can to make money. Dont give them the opportunity to hurt and ruin your company.
The problem with setting rules in some legal disclaimers stating when you will inspect it -- and you dont follow it and violate it in a small way, it could be grounds for someone to sue you saying the search was not legal and in compliance with the policy. So keeping it broad is sometimes best for the protection of the company, even though nobody likes it. Otherwise, youre putting your company at risk.
Is it worth it? Sometimes I think its better to protect your rear, and use it to your advantage when the issue comes up, rather than finding you forgot a little "clause" and getting screwed for it.
As a reseller, I was able to do some research with our suppliers and there is not much choice in terms of large LCD screens (e.g. something over 20") with the exception as you found, the Apple Cinema Display.
I have found something that seems to be what you may be looking for -- the NEC LCD2110. 21.3" viewable, 1600x1200 native resolution. Link to the NEC press Release.
There is a price sticker shock though - MSRP is $7999.:(
I think this idea is great and everything to help revive some species but this brings up a concern. What about the Darwin theory -- survival of the fittest?
If anything dies off, then perhaps because they were weak and could not survive in todays harsh world. Is it worthwhile to bring them back to life, and would they be able to survive on their own? Or would we have to contain them at zoos and spend a lot of money to keep them going? Is it worth the effort?
I understand some people may say that some animals/mammals/etc may have died off because humans did it, but is it really worthwhile doing this -- e.g. will it benefit the earth? I mean, do they want to make a woolly mammal so they can stick them in a zoo for our childrens pleasures? Shouldn't they be free to roam the land?
I think the important thing is they are trying. Only if they would speed up and get the site up quicker, and it's a very simple mod so it shouldn't take more than a day. Oh well.
What I'm even more curious about is how many emails did the webmaster/PR team received.
What is puzzling and strange is that it took someone from LinuxToday to escalate the issue at Fox. Does that mean that all the messages we may have sent them went to/dev/null?
Anyway, its good to know they will comply, but they could speed it up quickly than saying it will be done by 12/17 -- it's not that difficult modification. I guess theyre probably trying to track down who actually runs the website.:)
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I had the same issues where my bookmarks and tabs wouldn't work after the Firefox 2.0 upgrade. The fix that I could figure out was to uninstall Firefox, and then reinstall. All my bookmarks were still there and it wasn't lost.
I work for a University and we used to be a member of Internet2. While it was nice to have high-speed connections to other members of the Internet2, we quit because of the high costs and we could not justify the costs for a small University with less than 5,000 students.
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It costs at least $300,000 minimum per year to join Internet2. The fees are as follows:
$30,000 Internet2 Membership fee (http://members.internet2.edu/Member-Dues.html)
$220,000 Abilene Membership fee for OC-12 (http://abilene.internet2.edu/community/fees/inde
Additional fees are assessed depending on which GigaPop you would be connected to (http://eng.internet2.edu/gigapoplist.html). The quote I had to become a member with one Gigapop was approximately $75,000 an year, plus local loop costs.
It's very difficult for us, and probably most Universities, to justify spending over $300,000 a year to become a member of Internet2. Until Internet2 can be better managed and lower costs, I do not foresee Internet2 becoming popular anytime soon.
I think Louis Vuitton should not be suing Google, instead, it should be suing the companies who post the adwords that violate trademarks. For example, if Dior decides to have an advertisement appear when someone searches for "Louis Vuitton" then perhaps Louis Vuitton should sue Dior for infringing on their trademark.
If Dior put a full-page ad in New York Times encouraging people to buy Dior instead of Louis Vuitton, does that mean that the New York Times is responsible for violating the trademark, or would it be Dior?
It worked for Google and their Pigeon rank (TM) system.
If you notice all the emails from Sasha to Lance, it states "Sasha Krsmanovic (ManPower)"
Manpower is a consulting firm.
Theres no reason to run Windows as an Administrator except in unique circumstances. I still dont understand why people run as an administrator.
/user:administrator cmd to get a dos prompt with Admin privs.. and then do whatever you want.
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We're all familiar with sudo for linux. There's an equivalent for Windows. Theres a program called "runas" and its included with Windows 2000 and XP.
You can do runas
You can read the docs on runas by going to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
Theres no reason to run Windows as an Administrator except in unique circumstances.
/user:administrator cmd to get a dos prompt with Admin privs.. and then do whatever you want.
; en-us;294676
As we're all familiar with sudo for linux. There's an equivalent for Windows. Its called "runas".
You can do runas
You can read the docs on runas by going to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
No, Microsoft is not on Internet2.
:)
traceroute research.microsoft.com
traceroute to research.microsoft.com (131.107.65.14), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 gallgtwy (134.231.4.2) 592.570 ms 40.421 ms 9.430 ms
2 gallgw (192.26.10.1) 0.557 ms 0.540 ms 0.459 ms
3 d3-2-1-1.a00.mclnva02.us.ra.verio.net (168.143.233.85) 1.308 ms 1.188 ms
[Lines deleted]
Verio is our Internet uplink.
If I go to UMD, my network goes through I2 with 1ms ping times.
traceroute www.umd.edu
traceroute to websrv1.umd.edu (128.8.10.105), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 gallgtwy (134.231.4.2) 2.251 ms 2.226 ms 2.689 ms
2 gallgw (192.26.10.1) 0.870 ms 0.613 ms 0.488 ms
3 clpk-t3-1-3-2.maxgigapop.net (206.196.177.133) 1.490 ms 1.484 ms 1.570 ms
4 wash-umcp.maxgigapop.net (206.196.177.50) 5.203 ms 380.967 ms 8.777 ms
5 Vlan14.css-core-r1.net.umd.edu (128.8.7.193) 1.767 ms 1.666 ms 1.577 ms
6 websrv1.umd.edu (128.8.10.105) 1.792 ms 1.631 ms 1.604 ms
This is my understanding from a friend of mine who used to work as a systems administrator with a unnamed representative with a person in the Senate.
He reads all emails that comes in and states he gets about 100 to 300 emails a day. He then prints out (yes, prints out!) the emails he deems important and hands them to the congressional aides.
The congressional aides review it and if they deem it worthy, they will give it to the Senator, or bring it up in a meeting.
Basically the things he filters for:
1) If the person is not a constitutent in the state, the letter is deleted. So yes, including your address is important. He says more than half of the emails is obtained from people out of the state. They dont want to hear from other people outside the state as they dont care -- you dont vote for them, you cant vote against them, whats the point of wasting time on your email?
2) If it is not relevant (e.g. not about a bill specifically, or a general concern in the state) then it is discarded
3) When more than 10 (rough number) people complain about a similar thing, it seems to generate more attention into the issue/matter and tidbits will most likely be mentioned to the senator.
So with one senator, there is a process where the email is filtered twice (probably a little more than that) so the message that reaches the senator might be diluted a bit.
If you want to complain about bills in states you do not reside in, dont bother, find people in the states to submit your complaint.
The site is really dumb. They allow users to post anything, so some brilliant guy went in and posted a javascript that redirects you to eff.org. :)
His script says:
WILLIAM S, on ROCKAWAY PARKWAY says, "(SCRIPT)alert("YOU LOSE! Have fun at the EFF"); location.href="http://www.eff.org/";(/SCRIPT)"
I just disabled javascript to read the site... To fix it, I guess 3 people need to add comments to clear that out
It is located at: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20010723/tc/12192_ 1.html
All those legal disclaimers is there for a reason. Forget something little, and it could be the grounds for a lawsuit against your company. Being too friendly is not good because it can open loopholes against your company. Do I like it? No, but its a litigious world. People will sue for whatever reason they can to make money. Dont give them the opportunity to hurt and ruin your company. The problem with setting rules in some legal disclaimers stating when you will inspect it -- and you dont follow it and violate it in a small way, it could be grounds for someone to sue you saying the search was not legal and in compliance with the policy. So keeping it broad is sometimes best for the protection of the company, even though nobody likes it. Otherwise, youre putting your company at risk. Is it worth it? Sometimes I think its better to protect your rear, and use it to your advantage when the issue comes up, rather than finding you forgot a little "clause" and getting screwed for it.
As a reseller, I was able to do some research with our suppliers and there is not much choice in terms of large LCD screens (e.g. something over 20") with the exception as you found, the Apple Cinema Display.
:(
:)
I have found something that seems to be what you may be looking for -- the NEC LCD2110. 21.3" viewable, 1600x1200 native resolution. Link to the NEC press Release.
There is a price sticker shock though - MSRP is $7999.
Minotaur Technologies, the company that I own sells it for $7595. Free shipping!
I think this idea is great and everything to help revive some species but this brings up a concern. What about the Darwin theory -- survival of the fittest?
If anything dies off, then perhaps because they were weak and could not survive in todays harsh world. Is it worthwhile to bring them back to life, and would they be able to survive on their own? Or would we have to contain them at zoos and spend a lot of money to keep them going? Is it worth the effort?
I understand some people may say that some animals/mammals/etc may have died off because humans did it, but is it really worthwhile doing this -- e.g. will it benefit the earth? I mean, do they want to make a woolly mammal so they can stick them in a zoo for our childrens pleasures? Shouldn't they be free to roam the land?
I think the important thing is they are trying. Only if they would speed up and get the site up quicker, and it's a very simple mod so it shouldn't take more than a day. Oh well.
What I'm even more curious about is how many emails did the webmaster/PR team received.
/dev/null?
:)
What is puzzling and strange is that it took someone from LinuxToday to escalate the issue at Fox. Does that mean that all the messages we may have sent them went to
Anyway, its good to know they will comply, but they could speed it up quickly than saying it will be done by 12/17 -- it's not that difficult modification. I guess theyre probably trying to track down who actually runs the website.