At first glance I'm inclined to go along with the preponderance of thought here that this will be bad in the long run for users of Winternals products. I don't know of another company that has produced such good basic Windows utilities that are free and that work well with little overhead for so long.
OTOH, it will be interesting to see if and when Sysmon, Filemon and other tools get integrated into the Windows administrative tools. Or am I dreaming? I mean, after all didn't performance monitor and disk defrag and other utilities also come from companies that MS assimilated?
Hooray for the Sysinternals guys who will undoubtedly be kickin' it in the Carribean soon. Woe (maybe) to the rest of us.
If you had RTFA, you would have read that these are designed to fly above the jet stream and much higher than commercial air traffic. This is not your ordinary airship as it's designed for high altitudes as a low cost alternative to satellite commuincations.
I'd also like to know about the navigational capabilities of these things since they're designed to fly at very high altitudes. I wonder how much energy is expended getting them aloft and getting them to remain stationary. Is there relative calm above the jet stream or are there alternating currents that this has to deal with? I mean it seems like the practical use of these would be limited by their ability to remain relatively stationary as a geosynchronous satellite would. Perhaps it has an on board solar powered navigational system? The article doesn't discuss any of these things.
In the early nineties we were in the process of upgrading from terminals with badge readers to PC's and I was on the Help desk for a while. One afternoon we get a call from an irate manager who had just had her terminal swapped out and she was furious because she could not log in. When we tried to talk her through it, we just got "I don't have time for this, you need to send someone" so we sent a tech out to the site. Tech arrives at manager's office and asks her to log in so she can see what's going on. The manager quickly puts her employee badge into the diskette drive and says "See? I told you! Nothing!"
This really did happen, and chapter 2 to the story was that when we were conducting training sessions we used to use the story as sort of a funny anecdote to break the ice. We told it that is until the very same manager wound up in one of the sessions and heard it being repeated by a third person. To say she was not amused would be a gross understatement, and fair amount of ass chewing later ensued.
I haven't gotten through all of the threads yet so I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but ComputerWorld's Shark Tank sometimes has some good stories of tech support nightmares. If you submit one that gets posted, they send you a tee-shirt for your troubles.
Cool. So you're saying we can start working on that bridge to Barcelona thing now? Maybe put in a little rest stop somewhere around Bermuda or so. That would rock.
I worked for a pharmacist once who was also a BSA troop leader and canoe enthusiast. He took frequent canoe trips to some of the most inhospitable areas of the Florida Everglades (with his sons, not his scouts) and swore by taking large doses of Thiamine aka Vitamin B1. One to two hundred mg per day should do the trick. The vitamin that is not absorbed is excreted via the pores and acts as a pretty effective repellant as the mosquitos don't like the smell.
This is a particularly good tip for fishermen traveling deep into the Everglades or Ten Thousand Islands area. If you have doused yourself in toxic DEET and then stick your hands in the livewell, you will soon find yourself with a bucket full of dead bait (my ex actually did this and ruined a trip for us). It's not fun when you've planned an expensive fishing trip and it's an hours long boat ride to the nearest bait shop. I've fished and camped in the 'Glades and other South Florida areas where we are plaqued with mosquitos and the B1 trick works pretty well. The key is to take a dose at least 24 hours before you are going to be outside, and then continue it each day you are out in the open.
Then there's also my brother's old tip that I can't vouch for as I havent tried it: Extend your arm and cover it in cheap whiskey. Then take a handful of sand and rub it over your arm. The mosquitos land, get drunk, and pretty soon they're so busy trowing rocks at each other that they don't bother you anymore.:P. We also like to say that there is not one single mosquito in the Everglades. (They're all happily married with zillions of children.)
The only flaw in this is that the "desktop replacement" itself has too much mass for it to be portable.
Amen to that. I bought an HP8800 series with the 17" display last year as a 'desktop replacement' and it is a real bear to travel with. It is technically portable, but really a pain in the neck (quite literally) when travelling much further than to and from the car. The thing weighs in at around 12 pounds with the a/c adapter and other junk I carry with it. Next time I need a case, I'll definitely get one with wheels.
This is off-topic somewhat, but other than the weight I really love the HP machine. The display is really nice compared to others in its class and it has a lot of other great features for the price. The only thing bad I can say is that I got mine just before HP started shipping them with the no OS boot option for using the CD and DVD players. Doh! It would be great if I could find a hack to do this without any HW modifications but HP support says it's not possible. If anyone out there wants to help me prove them wrong, I'm game to try.
Let's say that none of this ever happened and the guy manages to catch someone breaking into his house on tape? You think that if he took the tape downtown that he'd be arrested for illegal 'wiretapping' (how stupid is that anyway?) and the guy who broke in would go free? It's possible, but I doubt it. The only reason they are prosecuting him is that the cop probably was really a jerk and was caught being one on tape.
Seriously though, I'm curious about the technology that makes this possible (no I didn't download the PDF yet). It would be pretty slick to incorporate this into other devices.
It's a cool idea, but personally if I were to drop a thousand euros on one of these I don't think I'd be wearing it on my wrist. I'm kind of a klutz sometimes and am pretty hard on watch crystals so I don't think it would take me too long to crack the display.
Granted. But would you not agree that a right as fundamental as the one to own property is guaranteed by the Constitution and therefore its protections need to rest at the Federal level? Otherwise, what's to keep each and every little community and hamlet from writing their own property rights laws and enforcing them any way that they see fit? This is in effect what is already happening with the CRA's in some areas such as mine.
In in my city the local politicos quickly tried to put the best face on this after all the bad press they received by enacting an ordinance stating that they would not use eminent domain to sieze any personal residence. But I honestly don't see the difference. Private property is private property period (with the only plausible exception being some sort of right-of-way or other pressing issue that took precedence). What if the commercial property that I own is also the means by which I raise the income to pay my mortgage on my place of residence? By siezing this property the city would also be confiscating a significant source of income for the owner and possibly also lead to the loss of his/her home.
In both cases IIRC, the issue was not a pressing need for a road or school which would be of public benefit and (conceivably) justifiable under eminent domain. In both instances the local governemt wishes to confiscate private property from owners by having the CRA's designate the areas as "blighted". This then supossedly justifies their turning the property over to the developers. In the New London case I don't know whether the "blighted" designation is warranted as I've never been there, but I did see that some of the properties in question had been in some families for as many as 5 generations. In the case in my city, this area is anything but blighted and is some of the most desired property in my county. They are using the designation as a land grab loophole to benefit the developers (and also undoubtedly their re-election campaign coffers) and nothing more. It is all about greed and has nothing to do with the greater public good.
Um, IANAL either but I have to take issue with the second example you cite.
In that case, the court ruled in favor of a local government stating that it was within its rights to confiscate a piece of private property and offer it for sale to private developers. That is a much less passive picture than the one you are painting and has led to a conservative backlash. Remember this story?
I have followed this issue closely as my own city government (Hollywood, Florida) was one of the first to report nationally that it would sieze private properties in our downtown area and turn them over to developers. So far, the city has lost a couple of court challenges but they have not lost sight of their greed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^goal to sieze this property and give it to developers at a bargain price. Apparently the Supine Court (as my Father is fond of calling it) has ruled that one of the basic tenants of a free society, the right to own private property, no longer applies when the owner is in the way of a local government's pet project.
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At first glance I'm inclined to go along with the preponderance of thought here that this will be bad in the long run for users of Winternals products. I don't know of another company that has produced such good basic Windows utilities that are free and that work well with little overhead for so long.
OTOH, it will be interesting to see if and when Sysmon, Filemon and other tools get integrated into the Windows administrative tools. Or am I dreaming? I mean, after all didn't performance monitor and disk defrag and other utilities also come from companies that MS assimilated?
Hooray for the Sysinternals guys who will undoubtedly be kickin' it in the Carribean soon. Woe (maybe) to the rest of us.
If you had RTFA, you would have read that these are designed to fly above the jet stream and much higher than commercial air traffic. This is not your ordinary airship as it's designed for high altitudes as a low cost alternative to satellite commuincations.
I'd also like to know about the navigational capabilities of these things since they're designed to fly at very high altitudes. I wonder how much energy is expended getting them aloft and getting them to remain stationary. Is there relative calm above the jet stream or are there alternating currents that this has to deal with? I mean it seems like the practical use of these would be limited by their ability to remain relatively stationary as a geosynchronous satellite would. Perhaps it has an on board solar powered navigational system? The article doesn't discuss any of these things.
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If you like that, you'll love my action packed front lawn web cam at watchinggrassgrow.org.
In the early nineties we were in the process of upgrading from terminals with badge readers to PC's and I was on the Help desk for a while. One afternoon we get a call from an irate manager who had just had her terminal swapped out and she was furious because she could not log in. When we tried to talk her through it, we just got "I don't have time for this, you need to send someone" so we sent a tech out to the site. Tech arrives at manager's office and asks her to log in so she can see what's going on. The manager quickly puts her employee badge into the diskette drive and says "See? I told you! Nothing!"
This really did happen, and chapter 2 to the story was that when we were conducting training sessions we used to use the story as sort of a funny anecdote to break the ice. We told it that is until the very same manager wound up in one of the sessions and heard it being repeated by a third person. To say she was not amused would be a gross understatement, and fair amount of ass chewing later ensued.
I haven't gotten through all of the threads yet so I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but ComputerWorld's Shark Tank sometimes has some good stories of tech support nightmares. If you submit one that gets posted, they send you a tee-shirt for your troubles.
No, silly. This effort obviously calls for Windows Mobile.
Wait. God's going after Trump next? He must be pissed!
Cool. So you're saying we can start working on that bridge to Barcelona thing now? Maybe put in a little rest stop somewhere around Bermuda or so. That would rock.
I worked for a pharmacist once who was also a BSA troop leader and canoe enthusiast. He took frequent canoe trips to some of the most inhospitable areas of the Florida Everglades (with his sons, not his scouts) and swore by taking large doses of Thiamine aka Vitamin B1. One to two hundred mg per day should do the trick. The vitamin that is not absorbed is excreted via the pores and acts as a pretty effective repellant as the mosquitos don't like the smell.
:P. We also like to say that there is not one single mosquito in the Everglades. (They're all happily married with zillions of children.)
This is a particularly good tip for fishermen traveling deep into the Everglades or Ten Thousand Islands area. If you have doused yourself in toxic DEET and then stick your hands in the livewell, you will soon find yourself with a bucket full of dead bait (my ex actually did this and ruined a trip for us). It's not fun when you've planned an expensive fishing trip and it's an hours long boat ride to the nearest bait shop. I've fished and camped in the 'Glades and other South Florida areas where we are plaqued with mosquitos and the B1 trick works pretty well. The key is to take a dose at least 24 hours before you are going to be outside, and then continue it each day you are out in the open.
Then there's also my brother's old tip that I can't vouch for as I havent tried it: Extend your arm and cover it in cheap whiskey. Then take a handful of sand and rub it over your arm. The mosquitos land, get drunk, and pretty soon they're so busy trowing rocks at each other that they don't bother you anymore.
No, silly. The Earth creature stole it!
This is off-topic somewhat, but other than the weight I really love the HP machine. The display is really nice compared to others in its class and it has a lot of other great features for the price. The only thing bad I can say is that I got mine just before HP started shipping them with the no OS boot option for using the CD and DVD players. Doh! It would be great if I could find a hack to do this without any HW modifications but HP support says it's not possible. If anyone out there wants to help me prove them wrong, I'm game to try.
Let's say that none of this ever happened and the guy manages to catch someone breaking into his house on tape? You think that if he took the tape downtown that he'd be arrested for illegal 'wiretapping' (how stupid is that anyway?) and the guy who broke in would go free? It's possible, but I doubt it. The only reason they are prosecuting him is that the cop probably was really a jerk and was caught being one on tape.
If Dell ever did make these, that would give a whole new meaning to the term "Product Branding".
Seriously though, I'm curious about the technology that makes this possible (no I didn't download the PDF yet). It would be pretty slick to incorporate this into other devices.
It's a cool idea, but personally if I were to drop a thousand euros on one of these I don't think I'd be wearing it on my wrist. I'm kind of a klutz sometimes and am pretty hard on watch crystals so I don't think it would take me too long to crack the display.
It enables them to connect to links like this quickly.
Granted. But would you not agree that a right as fundamental as the one to own property is guaranteed by the Constitution and therefore its protections need to rest at the Federal level? Otherwise, what's to keep each and every little community and hamlet from writing their own property rights laws and enforcing them any way that they see fit? This is in effect what is already happening with the CRA's in some areas such as mine.
In in my city the local politicos quickly tried to put the best face on this after all the bad press they received by enacting an ordinance stating that they would not use eminent domain to sieze any personal residence. But I honestly don't see the difference. Private property is private property period (with the only plausible exception being some sort of right-of-way or other pressing issue that took precedence). What if the commercial property that I own is also the means by which I raise the income to pay my mortgage on my place of residence? By siezing this property the city would also be confiscating a significant source of income for the owner and possibly also lead to the loss of his/her home.
In both cases IIRC, the issue was not a pressing need for a road or school which would be of public benefit and (conceivably) justifiable under eminent domain. In both instances the local governemt wishes to confiscate private property from owners by having the CRA's designate the areas as "blighted". This then supossedly justifies their turning the property over to the developers. In the New London case I don't know whether the "blighted" designation is warranted as I've never been there, but I did see that some of the properties in question had been in some families for as many as 5 generations. In the case in my city, this area is anything but blighted and is some of the most desired property in my county. They are using the designation as a land grab loophole to benefit the developers (and also undoubtedly their re-election campaign coffers) and nothing more. It is all about greed and has nothing to do with the greater public good.
I need to ask: So will users be saying 'G'day' or 'G'bye' to PayPal?
I think I heard that they also piloted 'GSpot' but quickly gave up on the idea. Seems that most men had a very difficult time finding it
Don't forget the ponies!
Um, IANAL either but I have to take issue with the second example you cite.
In that case, the court ruled in favor of a local government stating that it was within its rights to confiscate a piece of private property and offer it for sale to private developers. That is a much less passive picture than the one you are painting and has led to a conservative backlash. Remember this story?
I have followed this issue closely as my own city government (Hollywood, Florida) was one of the first to report nationally that it would sieze private properties in our downtown area and turn them over to developers. So far, the city has lost a couple of court challenges but they have not lost sight of their greed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^goal to sieze this property and give it to developers at a bargain price. Apparently the Supine Court (as my Father is fond of calling it) has ruled that one of the basic tenants of a free society, the right to own private property, no longer applies when the owner is in the way of a local government's pet project.
They start shipping with root kits? I'll have to spend all my weekends clearing out the septic tank and drain field.
Not at all. They user mallets to bang on them and make them play "The bells of St. Mary".