Have fun with Enmax, their stability record is pretty awesome. Try getting any kind of service on a weekend, their noc number on the weekends goes to a pager and they will call you back within the hour. I deal with them so often it isn't funny. And watch out, they contract out the last mile in many of their build out. Their like using telus and shaw and the best, they won't tell you.
Well considering he did rip the music and dump it into a file sharing program does make you think he might have been trying to allow for sharing of these files. However after thinking about it, how many of these programs offer a media player aspect? A lot of them do, and I remember back in college how many people would be using Kazaa as their media player. One could say that he was on the understanding that if he places all his music in the My Shared Folder, it all shows up in Kazaa and he can then listen to it all. Not really much of a reach at all consider we are talking about Joe Six Pack here.
The Radiohead's website was serving so many downloads it was taking hours to download. I know personally people that went paid some money and then hit up a torrent. OR they have bought the box set, and hit the torrents as it was faster and freed up some bandwidth for those that have no clue there are faster ways of getting it.
Really is it they don't think that the consumer understands how to use a CableCard, or is it they are getting paid not to, so that the cable companies can keep selling there sub-par TV-top pvr system to the masses? You know cable companies, thinking of the bottom line.
Nothing the Real-ID program will get an upgrade and make it necessary for you to have an RFID implant else you go to jail. And the people promoting will just secure themselves another contract.
Wow more step closer to making this point reality. If/when this goes into effect the US will be the very thing they were getting away from all those many years. I guess the saying is true, "what comes around goes around." I guess no one wants to remember history.
I had one of the worst childhoods of all the people i know just because of the fact that I was very smart. It wasn't until I was 16 did I finally walk away from the education system. My mom couldn't afford to send me to any other school so I ended up working and self studying for get my CCNA, I passed my cert at the age of 17.
Now 8 years later I have gone to college graduated from a networking course, at a job at a leading colo/manged service provider here in Canada. And I still don't have my high school education.
Not at all, consider for a moment that 90% if not more of these people are more paranoid then the average paranoid person, and as part of the annual event they have "Spot the FED" contest ( http://defcon.org/html/defcon-15/dc-15-stf.html ) one would think this would be a pretty stupid idea. If they had sent in a tech that actually fit the part they might have had a slim chance, but sending a pretty girl in there was pretty much doomed from the beginning.
Too bad for her now, likely within the week her entire life will be on the world for display. Congrats NBC for ruining someones else's life.
At the DC I work at we have a crap load of extra gear.
Make sure you have one emergcy kit in your core room, ensure that no one is to use it unless it is an emergmcy.
The kit should have but not limited to the following:
screw drivers
mounting screws/cage nuts
knife (a Leatherman multi-tool)
spare patch/cross-over cables (Copper) (various length)
spare fibre patch cables (Various length)
Cable tester (Copper/fibre)
couplers for fibre
fibre cleaning kits
Patch panel punch tool
spare hard ware for core gear
We have more gear however i'm drawing a bit of a blank as I haven't needed to look at the kit for a while.
Maybe they are putting it on the back burner, not releasing the information and giving it time to get to the point that once they do release it there will be a much bigger effect. As it is now TPM isn't wide spread yet so give it a bit of time and then break it.
Not saying it wouldn't work, however there are business people that expect the cheap stuff to work as well as the enterprise level gear.
Point and case, I did a setup for a small office about 2 years ago, the office manager wanted to replace all the cables with one wireless access point. This wouldn't have been a problem had I been the one recommending the hardware to be installed. When I ended up going to setup there environment the gear I was handed was a cheap 20$ no name router/AP. Needless to say they used it for about a week before they went back to the cables because it wasn't in the budget to get anything more expensive.
At any rate, a lot of business owners just don't understand the technology and need to be informed about the good and bad regarding wireless from someone that isn't a Best Buy employee.
It sounds like the people she works for don't understand technology and just don't like wires, and to top it off i bet you they are the same people that go and by the 39.99 Netgear wifi router for there office solution.
There are a lot of business owners like that so it doesn't really surprise me, and it shouldn't come down on the person head that actually installed the stuff as they may not have had any say in the decision.
Not really, if you are a business that is deploying wifi as a solution to allow laptop users to move around fine, however if it is cheap solution to installing hard wired cables to each desk then someone needs to be re-informed about the pitfalls.
Depends on what warranty you have, and who you are talking to. It sounds like you are talking to the home/home office support. I work in an environment where we talk to dell at least once every two weeks for a hard drive failure, 100% of the time all they want from us is to run the Dell diag CD in Express and Extend testing mode to confirm the component is dead. They never ask us questions about the operating system or other systems specs are they can pull that info from the Dell service tag. Either way the RMA is in our facility within 24 hours on most gear and 4 hours or less on other.
So either you are talking to the wrong people, or your company is being cheap on the warranty.
I always enjoy reading stuff like this. They raid the data center of TPB and take all the servers even if they weren't related to the torrent site. This caused a lot of grief and promoting it as a victory against illegal downloading. But really how long was TPB down for? Two or Three days at the most and now they likely have a few backup sites ready to go live if they try to take them down again.
Now fast-forward a year from then and they are only now wanting to press charges, give me a break. All they are doing now is going to waste money to say "Hey, look **AA, we are actually doing something about the problem!" but realistically lets call this what it really is, a dog and pony show.
My question is how do they make the money off the ads. Is it by clicks, by view or other, because if it is by click they are pretty much done for as the people that are blocking the ads aren't likely going to click on the ad in the first place, so no real lost there. If it by view, how are they figuring this out? I understand what yahoo is doing using a script to verify that it is displayed, but if they aren't using some sort of script how do they prove it has been displayed?
At any rate boils down to how they make there money. If it is by click then i don't see the point and forcing the ad when it isn't going to be clicked on in the first place. And if it is on display could there not be a way to block the ad but say it was displayed?
Personally I block all ads, I have not intention to click on an ad and be taken to the products website for a bias opinion. I personally do research on what i want so ads do very little for me.:shrug: sue me, and to note I don't use Yahoo or gmail, I have my own domain, with my own server. Problem solved.
Look at it in terms of are you going to enjoying the environment you are going to be working in. I personally took a job that paid a little bit less to work for a company that cares a lot about their employees and treat them very well. Or I could have worked for bigger company where you are basically a number. Go where you fit in the most and where you will enjoy it the most, the money isn't always the key factor.
I consider this feature something that should be included in every IM client. ICQ had it first back in the day and it was one of the factors for using, but once everyone ran over to MSN and AOL they are now calling it a new feature when in fact it is pretty old.
Umm, I don't think this is a new feature as ICQ has had this ability for years. Congrats Microsoft for finally making it to 1998. Too bad ICQ was bought my AOL as it was the IM of choice back in the day.
Most college students do just that; however I speak for anyone that actually is here to learn and just coming here to get drunk and laid all the time. I know that what I live off isn't enough, but I still want to better myself so I can be a better person in the field.
The fact still remains that students should have access to the software to help learning for free. The discounts are good yet are still pretty high if you are living on 8000$ for 8 months and you have to think about fees, bills, and rent.
I took at different approach to my education; I was bored of high school (I would like to point out that I am Canadian, so the school systems are a bit different.) and was unmotivated to attend classes. I was given the opinion to drop out and go to work or to an alternative adult institution. I ended up taking the latter, still not impressed by the level stimulation, I was granted the privileged of taking my CCNA there and I have not looked back.
I don't understand why places don't offer a student of high school age the option to study stuff that is relevant to what they would like to do in a career. I have always known that I would work in the computer field. I am a certified by Cisco as a network associate, just graduated from college for computer network and starting this fall I am taking computer programming.
I firmly believe that high school students have the ability to do well, however the general thought high school is that it is a glorified baby sitting service. High school is basically a prison for teenagers with teachers that don't really care much about the students. I am proud to not be a high school graduate because I have worked hard to achieve what most expected me to fail.
Another factor to drop in the equation is educational purposes. I currently am a computer programming student living on a very limited budget; I don't have access to the campus all the time. So if I download a free copy of a program to learn I don't see a big issue with it. Yes there are student discounts for software; however 200$ for a 600$ software package still doesn't fit the budget.
So sue me for wanting to learn a software package that I can't afford to use normally. I personally believe that at the end of the day I will benefit from what I have taken and will use the skills learned on a licensed copy later in life.
I wish they would make software available for free for educational purposes.
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Have fun with Enmax, their stability record is pretty awesome. Try getting any kind of service on a weekend, their noc number on the weekends goes to a pager and they will call you back within the hour. I deal with them so often it isn't funny. And watch out, they contract out the last mile in many of their build out. Their like using telus and shaw and the best, they won't tell you.
You don't pay big money to IBM for uptime, all IBM does now is resell other companies and take a share of the money. And become a middle man.
Well considering he did rip the music and dump it into a file sharing program does make you think he might have been trying to allow for sharing of these files. However after thinking about it, how many of these programs offer a media player aspect? A lot of them do, and I remember back in college how many people would be using Kazaa as their media player. One could say that he was on the understanding that if he places all his music in the My Shared Folder, it all shows up in Kazaa and he can then listen to it all. Not really much of a reach at all consider we are talking about Joe Six Pack here.
The Radiohead's website was serving so many downloads it was taking hours to download. I know personally people that went paid some money and then hit up a torrent. OR they have bought the box set, and hit the torrents as it was faster and freed up some bandwidth for those that have no clue there are faster ways of getting it.
Really is it they don't think that the consumer understands how to use a CableCard, or is it they are getting paid not to, so that the cable companies can keep selling there sub-par TV-top pvr system to the masses? You know cable companies, thinking of the bottom line.
Nothing the Real-ID program will get an upgrade and make it necessary for you to have an RFID implant else you go to jail. And the people promoting will just secure themselves another contract.
Wow more step closer to making this point reality. If/when this goes into effect the US will be the very thing they were getting away from all those many years. I guess the saying is true, "what comes around goes around." I guess no one wants to remember history.
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I had one of the worst childhoods of all the people i know just because of the fact that I was very smart. It wasn't until I was 16 did I finally walk away from the education system. My mom couldn't afford to send me to any other school so I ended up working and self studying for get my CCNA, I passed my cert at the age of 17.
Now 8 years later I have gone to college graduated from a networking course, at a job at a leading colo/manged service provider here in Canada. And I still don't have my high school education.
Not at all, consider for a moment that 90% if not more of these people are more paranoid then the average paranoid person, and as part of the annual event they have "Spot the FED" contest ( http://defcon.org/html/defcon-15/dc-15-stf.html ) one would think this would be a pretty stupid idea. If they had sent in a tech that actually fit the part they might have had a slim chance, but sending a pretty girl in there was pretty much doomed from the beginning. Too bad for her now, likely within the week her entire life will be on the world for display. Congrats NBC for ruining someones else's life.
At the DC I work at we have a crap load of extra gear. Make sure you have one emergcy kit in your core room, ensure that no one is to use it unless it is an emergmcy. The kit should have but not limited to the following: screw drivers mounting screws/cage nuts knife (a Leatherman multi-tool) spare patch/cross-over cables (Copper) (various length) spare fibre patch cables (Various length) Cable tester (Copper/fibre) couplers for fibre fibre cleaning kits Patch panel punch tool spare hard ware for core gear We have more gear however i'm drawing a bit of a blank as I haven't needed to look at the kit for a while.
Maybe they are putting it on the back burner, not releasing the information and giving it time to get to the point that once they do release it there will be a much bigger effect. As it is now TPM isn't wide spread yet so give it a bit of time and then break it.
Not saying it wouldn't work, however there are business people that expect the cheap stuff to work as well as the enterprise level gear. Point and case, I did a setup for a small office about 2 years ago, the office manager wanted to replace all the cables with one wireless access point. This wouldn't have been a problem had I been the one recommending the hardware to be installed. When I ended up going to setup there environment the gear I was handed was a cheap 20$ no name router/AP. Needless to say they used it for about a week before they went back to the cables because it wasn't in the budget to get anything more expensive. At any rate, a lot of business owners just don't understand the technology and need to be informed about the good and bad regarding wireless from someone that isn't a Best Buy employee.
It sounds like the people she works for don't understand technology and just don't like wires, and to top it off i bet you they are the same people that go and by the 39.99 Netgear wifi router for there office solution. There are a lot of business owners like that so it doesn't really surprise me, and it shouldn't come down on the person head that actually installed the stuff as they may not have had any say in the decision.
Not really, if you are a business that is deploying wifi as a solution to allow laptop users to move around fine, however if it is cheap solution to installing hard wired cables to each desk then someone needs to be re-informed about the pitfalls.
Depends on what warranty you have, and who you are talking to. It sounds like you are talking to the home/home office support. I work in an environment where we talk to dell at least once every two weeks for a hard drive failure, 100% of the time all they want from us is to run the Dell diag CD in Express and Extend testing mode to confirm the component is dead. They never ask us questions about the operating system or other systems specs are they can pull that info from the Dell service tag. Either way the RMA is in our facility within 24 hours on most gear and 4 hours or less on other.
So either you are talking to the wrong people, or your company is being cheap on the warranty.
I always enjoy reading stuff like this. They raid the data center of TPB and take all the servers even if they weren't related to the torrent site. This caused a lot of grief and promoting it as a victory against illegal downloading. But really how long was TPB down for? Two or Three days at the most and now they likely have a few backup sites ready to go live if they try to take them down again. Now fast-forward a year from then and they are only now wanting to press charges, give me a break. All they are doing now is going to waste money to say "Hey, look **AA, we are actually doing something about the problem!" but realistically lets call this what it really is, a dog and pony show.
If i still had mod points, you would be modded up !
My question is how do they make the money off the ads. Is it by clicks, by view or other, because if it is by click they are pretty much done for as the people that are blocking the ads aren't likely going to click on the ad in the first place, so no real lost there. If it by view, how are they figuring this out? I understand what yahoo is doing using a script to verify that it is displayed, but if they aren't using some sort of script how do they prove it has been displayed? At any rate boils down to how they make there money. If it is by click then i don't see the point and forcing the ad when it isn't going to be clicked on in the first place. And if it is on display could there not be a way to block the ad but say it was displayed? Personally I block all ads, I have not intention to click on an ad and be taken to the products website for a bias opinion. I personally do research on what i want so ads do very little for me. :shrug: sue me, and to note I don't use Yahoo or gmail, I have my own domain, with my own server. Problem solved.
Look at it in terms of are you going to enjoying the environment you are going to be working in. I personally took a job that paid a little bit less to work for a company that cares a lot about their employees and treat them very well. Or I could have worked for bigger company where you are basically a number. Go where you fit in the most and where you will enjoy it the most, the money isn't always the key factor.
I consider this feature something that should be included in every IM client. ICQ had it first back in the day and it was one of the factors for using, but once everyone ran over to MSN and AOL they are now calling it a new feature when in fact it is pretty old.
Umm, I don't think this is a new feature as ICQ has had this ability for years. Congrats Microsoft for finally making it to 1998. Too bad ICQ was bought my AOL as it was the IM of choice back in the day.
Most college students do just that; however I speak for anyone that actually is here to learn and just coming here to get drunk and laid all the time. I know that what I live off isn't enough, but I still want to better myself so I can be a better person in the field.
The fact still remains that students should have access to the software to help learning for free. The discounts are good yet are still pretty high if you are living on 8000$ for 8 months and you have to think about fees, bills, and rent.
I took at different approach to my education; I was bored of high school (I would like to point out that I am Canadian, so the school systems are a bit different.) and was unmotivated to attend classes. I was given the opinion to drop out and go to work or to an alternative adult institution. I ended up taking the latter, still not impressed by the level stimulation, I was granted the privileged of taking my CCNA there and I have not looked back.
I don't understand why places don't offer a student of high school age the option to study stuff that is relevant to what they would like to do in a career. I have always known that I would work in the computer field. I am a certified by Cisco as a network associate, just graduated from college for computer network and starting this fall I am taking computer programming.
I firmly believe that high school students have the ability to do well, however the general thought high school is that it is a glorified baby sitting service. High school is basically a prison for teenagers with teachers that don't really care much about the students. I am proud to not be a high school graduate because I have worked hard to achieve what most expected me to fail.
Another factor to drop in the equation is educational purposes. I currently am a computer programming student living on a very limited budget; I don't have access to the campus all the time. So if I download a free copy of a program to learn I don't see a big issue with it. Yes there are student discounts for software; however 200$ for a 600$ software package still doesn't fit the budget.
So sue me for wanting to learn a software package that I can't afford to use normally. I personally believe that at the end of the day I will benefit from what I have taken and will use the skills learned on a licensed copy later in life.
I wish they would make software available for free for educational purposes.