Yes. In business, image is everything. The appearance of "johnd@companywebsite.com" is far more professional than that of @hotmail, @gmail or even @isp (perhaps especially @isp, as it shows you're too cheap or lazy to setup a better email address for yourself).
OK, what if you don't have a website? We're a decade into the new millennium. Even if you don't expect to make online sales or attract new customers online, you should still have a website, if only for the online presence.
It's likely because there are greater risks involved in general anesthetic.
That's a good point. I underwent three surgeries in the course of one year and was under general anesthesia for each one. It wreaked havoc with my memory and mental capacity for at least a year afterward.
As someone who must undergo plenty of radiation for a chronic medical condition, I will not stand for having deliberate radiation being put through my body when it is of no direct medical benefit to me. Much less so for some useless, tax-draining government agency to create an illusion of effectiveness.
If you want to tune it further, try changing your performance settings to "Optimize for best performance" or whatever the equivalent is in Windows 7
Personally, I find that simply switching off the fisher price UI in XP makes one the biggest differences of all. Not sure what difference it makes in Windows 7, but I imagine it's quite significant, judging by the bloated hog that is Aero Glass.
There are some things you just can't put into a contract. Namely, things that are always illegal, ie.: you can't state in a contract that you'll be provided with free heroin and expect the force of law to be behind you because it's always illegal to possess, buy or sell heroin (yes, barring the appropriate medical licenses, prescriptions, and so forth).
Now, it's certainly plausible that the contract gave the provider permission to gain access using the appropriate and legal channels (say, another sysadmin with root access), but permission to actually crack his server? Very doubtful.
First, check your contract and make double sure that you didn't give them permission for this, and if not, go ahead and file charges.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that's irrelevant. You can't be bound to terms of a contract which are illegal. If your provider cracked your root password and logged into your server, they have committed the crime of illegal trespassing upon a computer system whether it's in the contract or not.
Still, it can't hurt to double-check the fine print to strengthen any potential case you may have.
Thank-you for that information. My mom is starting to think about getting a kindle, now I have some useful ammunition for convincing her not to (plus, she already has a netbook... it amazes me, the things people throw their money at because they can't bother to invest a few minutes realizing that they already have a fully-capable device)
It's pretty basic, but I use Treepad Lite (it's a heck of a lot better than the plain text file I used to have;)
It's brilliantly simple: just an infinite-level hierarchical tree of folders on the left, and the content (flat text) on the right when you select a folder. I use the folders as my list of projects and the text for the details of each project. I move and label the folders according to priority and status.
The payware versions look quite a bit more sophisticated. Specifically, I think the "Enterprise X" edition may just have everything you need.
Really? I think the comment system UI features that have been added over the past while are slick and efficient. The fewer times I am required to leave the current page for a small chunk of data to load, post or be rearranged, the better.
Instead of an "Holy Crap! The Blind Can See!" as a summary, is it too much to ask that you add half a sentence describing the specific condition that this procedure is capable of treating? "A man who lost his sight 30 years ago from retinitis pigmentosa, a group of genetic diseases causing retina degeneration,..." would have been fine.
Sure, I can click over and read the original source, but it's not so convenient sifting through paragraphs on the BBC's website when I'm reading this on my Pocket PC while sitting on the can.
Do we know that the ISP is actually using "deep packet inspection" to "hijack" DNS error responses to serve a webpage instead?
Frankly, I doubt it. Chances are more likely that the ISPs DNS software has been customized to serve up a webpage instead of respond with a DNS error flag. I don't know what you think constitutes "deep packet inspection", but this certainly doesn't (nor, in my opinion, does it constitute worthiness of a Slashdot story).
Furthermore, nothing about this violates the principle of network neutrality. No packets have filtered, throttled or shaped in any way.
I'm afraid that, unless we can prove they are actually checking packets from DNS requests going to other DNS servers, testing for a DNS error, and then serving up a webpage; "net neutrality", "DPI" and "hijacking" have become mere buzzwords to throw around aimlessly to shamelessly attract media attention.
Can someone on a Roger's connection change their TCP/IP or router settings to use OpenDNS and see what happens on a DNS error?
You forgot the "get off my lawn!" part at the end of your comment.
Seriously, get over yourself. Instant-on computing isn't just something we want because we're impatient. It's very convenient and productive.
I've stopped shutting my computer down every night in favour of using standby mode. Particularly on a laptop, it works very well. It takes two seconds to go into standby where it's drawing just enough power (read: almost nothing) to retain the data in memory. Then, in the morning when I bring out of standby, it takes only ten seconds until my session from the night before is conveniently restore and I can pick up right where I left off. Sure, a few applications don't like it -- PuTTY's connections are dropped, my email client occasionally balks at not having had a network connection -- but merely reopening a few SSH sessions and clearing my email error log is a whole lot better than a three minute wait from a cold boot and spending another ten minutes getting all my programs running and back how they were (that includes starting up my VMWare virtual machines which, by the way, are completely unaffected by going in and out of standby mode).
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Torrents are slower.
I read "paid file sharing will die", yelped a heartfelt cheer and forgot to read the rest.
Yes. In business, image is everything. The appearance of "johnd@companywebsite.com" is far more professional than that of @hotmail, @gmail or even @isp (perhaps especially @isp, as it shows you're too cheap or lazy to setup a better email address for yourself).
OK, what if you don't have a website? We're a decade into the new millennium. Even if you don't expect to make online sales or attract new customers online, you should still have a website, if only for the online presence.
That's a good point. I underwent three surgeries in the course of one year and was under general anesthesia for each one. It wreaked havoc with my memory and mental capacity for at least a year afterward.
s/of/or/
Curse Slashdot and its lack of edit function!
That's not the point. Those things are incidental. We're talking about deliberate and unnecessary radiation where it didn't exist before.
As someone who must undergo plenty of radiation for a chronic medical condition, I will not stand for having deliberate radiation being put through my body when it is of no direct medical benefit to me. Much less so for some useless, tax-draining government agency to create an illusion of effectiveness.
Personally, I find that simply switching off the fisher price UI in XP makes one the biggest differences of all. Not sure what difference it makes in Windows 7, but I imagine it's quite significant, judging by the bloated hog that is Aero Glass.
Slashdot. News for birds. Stuff that splatters.
There are some things you just can't put into a contract. Namely, things that are always illegal, ie.: you can't state in a contract that you'll be provided with free heroin and expect the force of law to be behind you because it's always illegal to possess, buy or sell heroin (yes, barring the appropriate medical licenses, prescriptions, and so forth).
Now, it's certainly plausible that the contract gave the provider permission to gain access using the appropriate and legal channels (say, another sysadmin with root access), but permission to actually crack his server? Very doubtful.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that's irrelevant. You can't be bound to terms of a contract which are illegal. If your provider cracked your root password and logged into your server, they have committed the crime of illegal trespassing upon a computer system whether it's in the contract or not.
Still, it can't hurt to double-check the fine print to strengthen any potential case you may have.
Thank-you for that information. My mom is starting to think about getting a kindle, now I have some useful ammunition for convincing her not to (plus, she already has a netbook ... it amazes me, the things people throw their money at because they can't bother to invest a few minutes realizing that they already have a fully-capable device)
In Slashdot, your sarcasm detector is broken.
Even in the little Canadian hick-town where I live, McDonalds' wifi access is free.
Oooh... what are they going to do, make French one of the official languages?
It's pretty basic, but I use Treepad Lite (it's a heck of a lot better than the plain text file I used to have ;)
It's brilliantly simple: just an infinite-level hierarchical tree of folders on the left, and the content (flat text) on the right when you select a folder. I use the folders as my list of projects and the text for the details of each project. I move and label the folders according to priority and status.
The payware versions look quite a bit more sophisticated. Specifically, I think the "Enterprise X" edition may just have everything you need.
...You keep trying to make UI (un)improvements...
Really? I think the comment system UI features that have been added over the past while are slick and efficient. The fewer times I am required to leave the current page for a small chunk of data to load, post or be rearranged, the better.
Oh, wow. Please tell me that you did NOT just use the shark analogy.
Instead of an "Holy Crap! The Blind Can See!" as a summary, is it too much to ask that you add half a sentence describing the specific condition that this procedure is capable of treating? "A man who lost his sight 30 years ago from retinitis pigmentosa, a group of genetic diseases causing retina degeneration, ..." would have been fine.
Sure, I can click over and read the original source, but it's not so convenient sifting through paragraphs on the BBC's website when I'm reading this on my Pocket PC while sitting on the can.
Have you ever actually managed to truly "uninstall" something on Windows?
Don't say yes, you'll be lying.
Do we know that the ISP is actually using "deep packet inspection" to "hijack" DNS error responses to serve a webpage instead?
Frankly, I doubt it. Chances are more likely that the ISPs DNS software has been customized to serve up a webpage instead of respond with a DNS error flag. I don't know what you think constitutes "deep packet inspection", but this certainly doesn't (nor, in my opinion, does it constitute worthiness of a Slashdot story).
Furthermore, nothing about this violates the principle of network neutrality. No packets have filtered, throttled or shaped in any way. I'm afraid that, unless we can prove they are actually checking packets from DNS requests going to other DNS servers, testing for a DNS error, and then serving up a webpage; "net neutrality", "DPI" and "hijacking" have become mere buzzwords to throw around aimlessly to shamelessly attract media attention.
Can someone on a Roger's connection change their TCP/IP or router settings to use OpenDNS and see what happens on a DNS error?
You forgot the "get off my lawn!" part at the end of your comment.
Seriously, get over yourself. Instant-on computing isn't just something we want because we're impatient. It's very convenient and productive.
I've stopped shutting my computer down every night in favour of using standby mode. Particularly on a laptop, it works very well. It takes two seconds to go into standby where it's drawing just enough power (read: almost nothing) to retain the data in memory. Then, in the morning when I bring out of standby, it takes only ten seconds until my session from the night before is conveniently restore and I can pick up right where I left off. Sure, a few applications don't like it -- PuTTY's connections are dropped, my email client occasionally balks at not having had a network connection -- but merely reopening a few SSH sessions and clearing my email error log is a whole lot better than a three minute wait from a cold boot and spending another ten minutes getting all my programs running and back how they were (that includes starting up my VMWare virtual machines which, by the way, are completely unaffected by going in and out of standby mode).
You're posting on Slashdot, so how would you know?
Actually, when you think about it, that would be pretty awesome.