I have been using Gmail since 2004, and am glad to say I haven't deleted an email (other than spam) yet.
It is understandable that there are privacy concerns with this type of archival of personal data. Personally, I think that the benefits outweigh the potential risks. I don't discuss anything too private over email or the internet for that matter because of the fact that it is less personal.
The ease of having all my multiple personal, work, and school email addresses forward to one globally accessible inbox is just worth it to me.
CEO Rick Puckette is enthusiastic about the change. "When we were using Microsoft, we had a lot more than 15 servers," he says. "We had upwards of 50 or 60 that were becoming difficult to manage. So as part of this open source initiative, we also chose a virtual machine called Xen, which allows us to put multiple machines on one physical server, to consolidate." Puckette says that Mindbridge evaluated other virtual machine software, including VMware, but Xen was "very cost-efficient and pretty bulletproof.
["Beautiful Code" features 33 different case studies about challenging coding scenarios from some of today's most high-profile developers and OS project leaders.]
OS as in Open Source or Operating System... obviously the first, but still.. quite ambiguous.
The last time I visited India (my Father's home country), many villages did not have running water or continuous electricity. This wasn't long ago... and the majority of my family in India doesn't even have a telephone of their own, not to mention a computer. I'm not saying it is the dark ages, by no means. They do have a television, water pump, and electricity for the majority of the day. Although the literacy rate is high, the technological level is quite low... wouldn't these resources be better spent if the Indian government focused on subsidizing basic utilities first?
The United States doesn't (and probably won't) have free Internet for all, but I think other countries shouldn't try to surpass us tech-wise without taking care of their people's needs first.
While RegisterFly was still part of eNom, everything was fine and dandy. During that time they had a 800 customer support line, and were very responsive. I never had any problems with them that weren't solved in a 5-10 minute phone call. Later, after they became a "Certified" registrar, problems started occurring. Items I purchased in my cart charged my PayPal account, but were never actually recorded as purchases. This happened 3 times before I got ticked off and tried calling, note that they no longer had the toll free number. They had a total of around $30 unaccounted for, deducted from my PayPal account but in no form credited to my RegisterFly account. I called their support line, well within operating hours, and was on hold for over 5 hours one time. I never got through to a representative, after multiple days spent with hours (usually over 2 as "First in line") on hold. They did however respond to a "Instant Online Chat" after about 3 hours of waiting with the Java chat window open. When they did respond, they were "unable to access" my account and thus do anything about it. I was told to call again, and email sales. Neither of those worked... big surprise huh? Eventually I filed a PayPal dispute and they *GASP* responded to that quickly. I have been transferring over my domains as they expire, and hope that there will be no problems with that in the future.
Not new...
taken from the LA Daily Breeze - Nov. 5, 2004
"An alleged plot by two Palos Verdes Peninsula High School students to profit from the theft of $30,000 worth of computers stolen from a classroom was thwarted when a teacher found the equipment for sale on eBay, sheriff's deputies said Thursday. ...
The break-in at the Rolling Hills Estates campus occurred about 1 a.m. Saturday. Someone jimmied the lock and entered the classroom, taking 10 Macintosh G5 computers."
This has been going on for some time... next time you think you're getting a steal of a price, it may be a real steal.
I have already been getting emails like this, with a phone number instead of link. These were for "colleges" that were trying to recruit me. Hahaha, funny. As for the pay pal ones, so far I have received two, both marked as spam by Gmail. I have reported them as phishing. They were identical except for the phone numbers.
I trust Newegg, and since I live in the Los Angeles area, shipping even with standard rate arives in 2 days, and for the next level up, over night. Newegg is my source for all computer parts, unless I have enough time to eBay them.
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The article notes underweight, not "normal" by BMI. Perhaps you mean normal by the "media" standards?
I have been using Gmail since 2004, and am glad to say I haven't deleted an email (other than spam) yet. It is understandable that there are privacy concerns with this type of archival of personal data. Personally, I think that the benefits outweigh the potential risks. I don't discuss anything too private over email or the internet for that matter because of the fact that it is less personal. The ease of having all my multiple personal, work, and school email addresses forward to one globally accessible inbox is just worth it to me.
Don't tell me I'm the only person who thought of Carbonite Backup before the material I was wondering how some trekkie finally digitized himself.
["Beautiful Code" features 33 different case studies about challenging coding scenarios from some of today's most high-profile developers and OS project leaders.]
OS as in Open Source or Operating System...
obviously the first, but still.. quite ambiguous.
actually, I just bought rectu.ms
what should I put on it? Ahahaha
The last time I visited India (my Father's home country), many villages did not have running water or continuous electricity. This wasn't long ago... and the majority of my family in India doesn't even have a telephone of their own, not to mention a computer. I'm not saying it is the dark ages, by no means. They do have a television, water pump, and electricity for the majority of the day. Although the literacy rate is high, the technological level is quite low... wouldn't these resources be better spent if the Indian government focused on subsidizing basic utilities first? The United States doesn't (and probably won't) have free Internet for all, but I think other countries shouldn't try to surpass us tech-wise without taking care of their people's needs first.
While RegisterFly was still part of eNom, everything was fine and dandy. During that time they had a 800 customer support line, and were very responsive. I never had any problems with them that weren't solved in a 5-10 minute phone call.
Later, after they became a "Certified" registrar, problems started occurring. Items I purchased in my cart charged my PayPal account, but were never actually recorded as purchases. This happened 3 times before I got ticked off and tried calling, note that they no longer had the toll free number. They had a total of around $30 unaccounted for, deducted from my PayPal account but in no form credited to my RegisterFly account.
I called their support line, well within operating hours, and was on hold for over 5 hours one time. I never got through to a representative, after multiple days spent with hours (usually over 2 as "First in line") on hold.
They did however respond to a "Instant Online Chat" after about 3 hours of waiting with the Java chat window open. When they did respond, they were "unable to access" my account and thus do anything about it. I was told to call again, and email sales. Neither of those worked... big surprise huh?
Eventually I filed a PayPal dispute and they *GASP* responded to that quickly. I have been transferring over my domains as they expire, and hope that there will be no problems with that in the future.
Not new...
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taken from the LA Daily Breeze - Nov. 5, 2004
"An alleged plot by two Palos Verdes Peninsula High School students to profit from the theft of $30,000 worth of computers stolen from a classroom was thwarted when a teacher found the equipment for sale on eBay, sheriff's deputies said Thursday.
The break-in at the Rolling Hills Estates campus occurred about 1 a.m. Saturday. Someone jimmied the lock and entered the classroom, taking 10 Macintosh G5 computers."
This has been going on for some time... next time you think you're getting a steal of a price, it may be a real steal.
and I still can't get any service at my house
I have already been getting emails like this, with a phone number instead of link. These were for "colleges" that were trying to recruit me. Hahaha, funny.
As for the pay pal ones, so far I have received two, both marked as spam by Gmail. I have reported them as phishing. They were identical except for the phone numbers.
The full email received is posted here.
The "pay pal" phone numbers 1-805-214-4801 and 1-530-204-6800
It seems to me like the spoofer is a ChoiceOne subscriber, or a poor drone sending out emails because of a trojan.
THOSE BASTA... actually, Thanks! Score one for California
I trust Newegg, and since I live in the Los Angeles area, shipping even with standard rate arives in 2 days, and for the next level up, over night. Newegg is my source for all computer parts, unless I have enough time to eBay them.
jEdit with its PHP Parser and FTP plugins works quite well it also has a MySQL plugin, but I don't bother with that.