But as for ruggedness testing, do you think that they were going a little overboard? I have been using my Latitude D810 for about four years now, have dropped it multiple times at the airport, the wife stepped on it while the lid was shut, and my aging cat urinated on the keyboard. Thing is that it still works. I am impressed with Dell's quality for the higher-end models made to withstand abuse. I would have bought two or three HPs in the time that I have had my Latitude. End of story for me.
I like to get a fresh install at the cost of losing all of my packages. Ubuntu is not as bad about breaking packages and leaving pieces in places as Gentoo was, but it is still nice to start with a new base. So what I was referring to was that 8.10 was incredibly fast, and when I moved to 9.04 after crashing the HDD, even the desktop takes a minute or so to load. No idea why, but everything is so black-box in Ubuntu that I really don't want to try to figure out what the slowdown is.
If you are running an older version, you must upgrade incrementally. For instance, if you are at 8.10, you have to go to 9.04 and THEN 9.10. Kind of makes it a pain, but at least you don't have to do much. Just go to the update manager GUI and update. Hope this helps!
And hopefully this version will run a little better. When I went from 8.10 to 9.04, everything went to a standstill. Maybe that's why these Dell Linux PCs are still shipping with 8.10.:\
I am surprised that anyone is able to keep their job. Where an honest mistake where no one was harmed causes someone to loose their career. I would feel more comfortable riding in a plain from a pilot who has a relatively good record and made a mistake and got severely corrected As they know the severity of their mistake, and are extra careful not to make an other one. Vs. a Pilot who has a good records but has gone too comfortable with their job, and will be likely to make their first mistake.
It reminds me when I first started working. I was cleaning out my old backup files. so I meant to do a rm -f *~ but me being green and not so careful I did an rm -f * ~
I Hit Ctrl-C after I realized it was taking way to long. However, I cleared out about 2 weeks of work. Plus my personal documents. Needless to say I learned to backup more freaklently and the value of a good source control system.
But If I were to get fired after that mistake and forced to switch careers then I wouldn't be able to apply my new learned methods.
That is why I cringe whenever there is a big mistake and people go well I hope that guy gets fired. Because the guy who did the mistake and especially if he was honest about it, would probably be so much more careful the nest time around. Who I would be more worried about is the guy who fired him. As part of the mistake is on him too. For not making sure they are safe guard in place.
I have had the same kind of experience at work. Except I *WAS* fired for it. Kind of sucks when you are designing a $20000 dollar circuit board in your first month and you put the PGA socket lands in backwards. Needless to say, I didn't make that mistake again. It also made it kinda hard to get a new job...
A little controversial, are we? I saw this coming over a YEAR ago.
Neo-conservative business-backing Bush out of office. Neo/ultra-liberal business-choking Obama administration in. Businesses take advantage of what happens as the pendulum swings, and they fall under fire on the same note.
In interesting news, a fake antivirus has caused quite the riot with women in their mid-twenties. Due to unemployed data operations programmers trying to earn some money to at least pay their bills, they have created a fake antivirus much like Windows Antivirus 2009. However, this pseudo-antivirus program is smart and employs unique data mining technologies to determine which users are likely to be attractive women in their late teens to late twenties. These victims are then targeted and scammed.
The women are targeted with an algorithm that determines how much proportional web browsing is carried out on Myspace, Facebook, email, and on online clothing shopping sites. By using a modified log-normal distribution, ex-programmers were able to create a model that determined which users were of the targeted age group 86% of the time and which were hot 49% of the time. With the statistical combination, the "antivirus" program learned which users were "hot women" and instructed them to sit on their scanners with their skirts and underwear removed, or else their computers would go up in smoke. As such the demographic is generally technically illiterate, the women have been doing so, scammers have been receiving really nice butt-on-glass pictures, and the scanners themselves--especially the ones marked "HP"--have been completely overwhelmed.
Is the world really that unsafe that parents need to track their children electronically? I don't think so,
So what's to lose? Say you have a 6 year old kid: is it really going to harm them to wear one of these? Sure, chances are very very high that this'll never be needed, but so what? It's kind of like Pascal's wager, isn't it?
The bit that irritates me most about this is the retailer's website "Loc8r", "Where R U" etc. I'd be more worried about the effects of this on their spelling than their general well being.
June 16, 2009, 07:47 PM - IDG News Service - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is now recommending that a complicated law that would tax personal usage of business cell phones be repealed, after the agency caused an uproar last week with attempts to simplify the law.
On Tuesday, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman asked Congress to make it clear that neither businesses nor employees will need to pay taxes on personal use of cell phones provided by employers.
Just last week the IRS requested public comments on ways to clarify the decades-old law. The request created an uproar because it implied that the largely ignored rule would now be enforced.
While workers are unenthusiastic about any new tax, this one might be particularly burdensome for both employees and employers because of the difficulty of tracking the personal use of company phones.
In its request for comments last week, the IRS suggested three possible ways to simplify enforcement of the law, including requiring people to prove that they have another cell phone that they use during the day for personal use. Alternatively, the IRS suggested that businesses might assume that 75 percent of employee use of the phones is for work and the rest for personal matters. The third method would let employers use an approved statistical sampling method to measure employees' personal use of their business cell phones.
But now the IRS says the law shouldn't be on the books. "The passage of time, advances in technology, and the nature of communication in the modern workplace have rendered this law obsolete," Shulman wrote.
He also said that last week's request for comment wasn't meant to imply that the IRS hoped to revive the law. "Some have incorrectly implied that the IRS is 'cracking down' on employee use of employer-provided cell phones. To the contrary, the IRS is attempting to simplify the rules and eliminate uncertainty for businesses and individuals," he wrote.
The CTIA wireless association applauded the IRS' latest move. "A repeal of the archaic listed property rule is the most sensible and fair action to take on behalf of every American who uses their wireless device for professional and personal purposes," Steve Largent, president and CEO of CTIA, said in a statement.
The IRS knows that it's hated. This is just all a huge PR stunt, and I'm not surprised that people are falling left and right for it.
When my company eventually switched over to Vista, the software just took a few tweaks here and there, e.g, what can be found here. So far in our tests on the RC, we haven't *had* to run anything as a SU, and everything has been "curable" with little hacks here and there.
If you are smart, you are usually on software support anyway, and your publisher can help you out. When we tried AutoCAD Inventor in Vista/Seven, it was just a quick call to AutoDesk to get it working. My thoughts on legacy software? Stay away from it!!!
Yea, building a VU or SPL meter is soooo easy that even an MIT student can build one. Timothy, did your mother know that you posted this story? GO TO YOUR ROOM.
So after reading the article, I can't really agree on this. I have "lots of EE friends in high places" and they also disagree to a large extent.
Back in 03 when I was deploying my company's first wireless networks, this article explained a lot.
And further reading here...funny how this has already been covered this year.
And remember, the ISM band *was allocated because of microwave ovens* as in...it wouldnt be fair to license out this band because it is interference prone, so they made it a sort of free for all...if a baby monitor is interfering with your cordless phone or WiFi, that is probably the least of your problems!
Yes theres alot of information on the internet, its easy and fast to find it. But its also easy and fast to find a great deal of crap on the internet that isnt actually of any use to you. Filtering the wheat from the chaff can often take as much or more effort as finding the information in the first place. How many times have you had to re-word your search phrase, try several search results, and use ctrl-f to actually select the usefull information from all the extra crap.
However, it's part of the fun. When it takes three tries to actually find what I wanted, I felt like I did it, not the search engine on it's own. A silly sort of a man in the machine thing.
Time Warner is inching closer to untangling one of the worst mergers in American corporate history that began with the merger of Time Warner with America Online, a deal that has resulted in the evaporation of more than $100 billion of shareholder value.
Do you mean to tell me that you have the naivete to believe that the core of AOL wasn't an outdated business model when this merger happened? Face it. Turner didn't have a clue what he was doing, and he bought a timed bomb for which there was no way to disarm the fuze.
I see a brand new user and see a moderator sign next to his name. Are you Rob's new sugar daddy? Whose balls are you sucking? Can you bump my karma back up to excellent?
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But as for ruggedness testing, do you think that they were going a little overboard? I have been using my Latitude D810 for about four years now, have dropped it multiple times at the airport, the wife stepped on it while the lid was shut, and my aging cat urinated on the keyboard. Thing is that it still works. I am impressed with Dell's quality for the higher-end models made to withstand abuse. I would have bought two or three HPs in the time that I have had my Latitude. End of story for me.
I like to get a fresh install at the cost of losing all of my packages. Ubuntu is not as bad about breaking packages and leaving pieces in places as Gentoo was, but it is still nice to start with a new base. So what I was referring to was that 8.10 was incredibly fast, and when I moved to 9.04 after crashing the HDD, even the desktop takes a minute or so to load. No idea why, but everything is so black-box in Ubuntu that I really don't want to try to figure out what the slowdown is.
If you are running an older version, you must upgrade incrementally. For instance, if you are at 8.10, you have to go to 9.04 and THEN 9.10. Kind of makes it a pain, but at least you don't have to do much. Just go to the update manager GUI and update. Hope this helps!
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And hopefully this version will run a little better. When I went from 8.10 to 9.04, everything went to a standstill. Maybe that's why these Dell Linux PCs are still shipping with 8.10.
The more publicized someone can get a product, the better.
And the more controversial the product, the more that the people want to see what's up with it. Bam! Sales!
And that's the American Way.
I am surprised that anyone is able to keep their job. Where an honest mistake where no one was harmed causes someone to loose their career. I would feel more comfortable riding in a plain from a pilot who has a relatively good record and made a mistake and got severely corrected As they know the severity of their mistake, and are extra careful not to make an other one. Vs. a Pilot who has a good records but has gone too comfortable with their job, and will be likely to make their first mistake.
It reminds me when I first started working. I was cleaning out my old backup files. so I meant to do a rm -f *~ but me being green and not so careful I did an rm -f * ~
I Hit Ctrl-C after I realized it was taking way to long. However, I cleared out about 2 weeks of work. Plus my personal documents. Needless to say I learned to backup more freaklently and the value of a good source control system. But If I were to get fired after that mistake and forced to switch careers then I wouldn't be able to apply my new learned methods.
That is why I cringe whenever there is a big mistake and people go well I hope that guy gets fired. Because the guy who did the mistake and especially if he was honest about it, would probably be so much more careful the nest time around. Who I would be more worried about is the guy who fired him. As part of the mistake is on him too. For not making sure they are safe guard in place.
I have had the same kind of experience at work. Except I *WAS* fired for it. Kind of sucks when you are designing a $20000 dollar circuit board in your first month and you put the PGA socket lands in backwards. Needless to say, I didn't make that mistake again. It also made it kinda hard to get a new job...
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Let's get this straight. Windex typically reeks of ammonia. And so do public elevators where winos have urinated.
A coincidence? A paradox? Or, are the guys at Brigham Young sniffing gold spraypaint trying to come up with new ideas? Hmmmmm...?
A little controversial, are we? I saw this coming over a YEAR ago.
Neo-conservative business-backing Bush out of office. Neo/ultra-liberal business-choking Obama administration in. Businesses take advantage of what happens as the pendulum swings, and they fall under fire on the same note.
What a country!
I don't like what I have seen posted in the headline either. Try this or this instead.
In interesting news, a fake antivirus has caused quite the riot with women in their mid-twenties. Due to unemployed data operations programmers trying to earn some money to at least pay their bills, they have created a fake antivirus much like Windows Antivirus 2009. However, this pseudo-antivirus program is smart and employs unique data mining technologies to determine which users are likely to be attractive women in their late teens to late twenties. These victims are then targeted and scammed.
The women are targeted with an algorithm that determines how much proportional web browsing is carried out on Myspace, Facebook, email, and on online clothing shopping sites. By using a modified log-normal distribution, ex-programmers were able to create a model that determined which users were of the targeted age group 86% of the time and which were hot 49% of the time. With the statistical combination, the "antivirus" program learned which users were "hot women" and instructed them to sit on their scanners with their skirts and underwear removed, or else their computers would go up in smoke. As such the demographic is generally technically illiterate, the women have been doing so, scammers have been receiving really nice butt-on-glass pictures, and the scanners themselves--especially the ones marked "HP"--have been completely overwhelmed.
Will work for karma
As you say! But it is not the first amateur video taken from 107,146 feet or 240,000 feet for that matter.
Who's your daddy? Luke, I am your father.
Is the world really that unsafe that parents need to track their children electronically? I don't think so,
So what's to lose? Say you have a 6 year old kid: is it really going to harm them to wear one of these? Sure, chances are very very high that this'll never be needed, but so what? It's kind of like Pascal's wager, isn't it? The bit that irritates me most about this is the retailer's website "Loc8r", "Where R U" etc. I'd be more worried about the effects of this on their spelling than their general well being.
You're just jealous because you've never gotten a FP and have therefore never been able to join the Gay [Negroes] Association of America.
The IRS knows that it's hated. This is just all a huge PR stunt, and I'm not surprised that people are falling left and right for it.
When my company eventually switched over to Vista, the software just took a few tweaks here and there, e.g, what can be found here. So far in our tests on the RC, we haven't *had* to run anything as a SU, and everything has been "curable" with little hacks here and there.
If you are smart, you are usually on software support anyway, and your publisher can help you out. When we tried AutoCAD Inventor in Vista/Seven, it was just a quick call to AutoDesk to get it working. My thoughts on legacy software? Stay away from it!!!
Of course it isn't news.
Here is some of dem linkies!
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Link 3!
Yea, building a VU or SPL meter is soooo easy that even an MIT student can build one. Timothy, did your mother know that you posted this story? GO TO YOUR ROOM.
So after reading the article, I can't really agree on this. I have "lots of EE friends in high places" and they also disagree to a large extent.
Back in 03 when I was deploying my company's first wireless networks, this article explained a lot.
And further reading here...funny how this has already been covered this year.
And remember, the ISM band *was allocated because of microwave ovens* as in...it wouldnt be fair to license out this band because it is interference prone, so they made it a sort of free for all...if a baby monitor is interfering with your cordless phone or WiFi, that is probably the least of your problems!
Most golfcarts HAVE four wheels you moron
Yes theres alot of information on the internet, its easy and fast to find it. But its also easy and fast to find a great deal of crap on the internet that isnt actually of any use to you. Filtering the wheat from the chaff can often take as much or more effort as finding the information in the first place. How many times have you had to re-word your search phrase, try several search results, and use ctrl-f to actually select the usefull information from all the extra crap.
However, it's part of the fun. When it takes three tries to actually find what I wanted, I felt like I did it, not the search engine on it's own. A silly sort of a man in the machine thing.
The power is YOURS!
Do you mean to tell me that you have the naivete to believe that the core of AOL wasn't an outdated business model when this merger happened? Face it. Turner didn't have a clue what he was doing, and he bought a timed bomb for which there was no way to disarm the fuze.
moderators! mod the parent up!!
At here.
Try me.
I see a brand new user and see a moderator sign next to his name. Are you Rob's new sugar daddy? Whose balls are you sucking? Can you bump my karma back up to excellent?
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