True but this is Canada not the US. The DMCA and Patriot Act do not directly affect us (meaning Canada not US). Of course pressure from the South notwithstanding. Govt is run a bit different here. I seriously doubt the Patriot Act would fly.
Of course there was the War Measures act that Trudeau threw up during the FLQ crisis but the Charter of Rights and Freedoms put that to bed.
The problem is that majority of voters are not the types to spark up a doob. This is also why there are not stricter tests on elderly drivers who have developed cataracts. Any politician who goes against the demographic of their typical joe voter may be looking for another job next election.
Granted there is more acceptance of it but there is still a stigma.
if the govt would actually put the money where their mouth is. One thing the govt doesn't do is shell out the cash where it is needed. Unless you think another golf course is needed.
I used to take the 50 which picked me up in front of my Apartment building and drop me off downtown and vice versa. I live near Lincoln Fields so it is easy to get the 97 or 95 as well.
Started a new job today at Entrust and was wondering driving home in the snow why I wanted a job where I drove to work:)
I mulled about snitching on them but I had heard that they had treated their IT staff like crap and had heard horror stories about how their other staff was treated but figured that karma is a bitch and someday something would happen. Plus I moved on. This was a year or two back so things could be different by now.
If I was to guess, I would assume they are taking Active Directories and applying it to the file system where each file is an object with specific attributes. Third party vendors would be able to expand the schema to include their specific file format. i.e Winamp install would add ID3 specified tags in as attributes for WinFS.
Nice to hear but not really surprising. Law firms have always been the staunch bastions of hope for alternatives to MS Office due to the control that you get with Wordperfect.
Why wouldn't the DOJ want to do it as well.
Funny story, I did some IT work for these guys http://www.mbm.com/ who are an IP law firm in Canada and they were the worst for pirating software. I think they had licenses for some COTS workstations that one of the previous IT admins had purchased but they had gone with beige boxes and had installed the same licensed copy (not MS Select) on the remainder of their workstations (about 60 or 70). They had also an Access based application (PAATSY or something like that) which had been licensed for a bunch of users but everyone in the company used it. To allow more people to use it they copied the database several times and if a user needed read access they would open a copy instead.
I don't think they had bought enough CALS for their Exchange box either and had only 1 licensed copy of Wordperfect.
well.. if he did sports on the 3 days that he's got off he would be better off probably True, any exercise is better than none but ideally he should be breaking it up to allow the body to recuperate a day before doing it again. He could break up the exercises to isolate during the 3 days off but by the third day the DOMS would be a serious bitch.
He should see if he can get an extended lunch and get a workout done in there at least once or twice during the 4 days on.
My brother did something similar when he worked for Molson in Toronto (Oracle work not work on the manf line (I miss the free beer though)). He worked from home 4 out of the 5 days and would drive in most of the way on Fridays to work but would park about 10k away and run the last bit there and back.
3 hours by car is frequently more by bicycle. Most likely but not necessarily. It could be extreme traffic that is taking up a good portion of the drive.
My last job I would take a bus downtown. People couldn't understand it until I pointed out that due to the bussing system here in Ottawa it takes as long by car to get downtown (sometimes longer if the weather is crap) than by bus and saves me a fortune in parking. However I live along the main bus feed. If I was off, this wouldn't be true.
This is true about biking here as well except for when the snow is on the ground.
connect to network shares on other windows systems as something other than the Guest account Are you sure about that? I know XP Home can't join a domain but mapping a drive as another user? This functionality was allowed in Workgroups in general with 9x i.e "Net use Z: \\Workstationname\Sharename/USER:\" used to work.
Honestly I don't know as I have been fortunate not to have to use XP Home at any point.
There is a similar discussion going on at Fark. The FCC came back and said that there is nothing wrong with broadcasting Saving Private Ryan uncut due to the nature of the movie. Someone pointed out that sure violence is allowed but Janet Jackson can't show off her saggy boob (my description)
It was then pointed out that with SPR you know it is going to be pretty gritty but no one expected to see a breast at the Super Bowl. Course someone pointed out who really watches it and it went downhill from there but there is a time and a place for everything. And there is never a time or place for Janet's boob.
I agree with the parent (and he shouldn't have been marked as flamebait). There is never a guarantee that the employees will stay just because their manager decided to take a pay cut. If the company needs to lay off now who says that they may lay off in the future? Chances are when the situation gets there people start leaving due to uncertainty. Sad but true. I have been through two layoffs 1 was when Newbridge started axing people due to stock deflation. The second was because a govt project was ahead of schedule, under budget and actually working succesfully. Both cases after the layoffs people have left and I suspect that even if management had taken pay cuts they still would have (in the last case, their budget got cut so short there is no allowance for overtime so essentially mgmt has taken a pay cut).
This could be beneficial for Linux, however you need to get the mom and pop stores more likely to support the OS. What this could end up doing is force better driver support especially from ATI and nVidia.
As they are the ones who usually do the OS install for the unwashed masses they are essentially the ones who may control availability of said hardware. Especially when someone comes in and says "Gee I want a computer but I don't know anything about them" Do you think the guy who recommends the hardware is going to say to get a card that is a pain to get X setup on?
It's understandable for MS to do this, they are a company, they need to keep their revenue stream and everything before hasn't been able to do it.
STFU you MS shill. You bastards always come out of the closet everytime someone posts some problem they're having with windows. SHILL No mostly when some zealot starts using old evidence as reasons to make a tired jab at Microsoft. Just the facts maam. Granted they need to greatly improve their security (although 2003 has taken some great strides towards it) but stability is not an issue as much as it used to be.
Plus I dual boot Gentoo on both my laptop and desktop so it isn't like I hate Linux. I don't but the fact is that if Windows is rolled out properly it isn't a nightmare to admin.
P.S have some cajones and post like a man not anonymously
So it is true that there is no honour among thieves. The idea of standing up to the man against something you believe in is admirable but in this case stupid. However if the people who did donate stole more in software than they donated then they are still ahead. I mean 1 copy of Windows 2003 with 5 Cals which is the minimum I could find goes for $1000 CDN
I am giving that a shot right now but, I had looked into it before thinking the same thing but the only Sempron I found with a 754 package had more cache built in than this one.
Strangely enough, although it recognizes my cpu as "AMD Athlon(tm)XP Processor 2800+" Installing CpuFreq support for the Athlon64 rather than the Athlon XP seems to have got Powernowd working.
I suspect the new Athlon M processors are like Athlon64 lobotomized. CPUZ recognizes it as a Sledgehammer but Gentoo AMD64 won't install as it says it doesn't have long support
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True but this is Canada not the US. The DMCA and Patriot Act do not directly affect us (meaning Canada not US). Of course pressure from the South notwithstanding.
Govt is run a bit different here. I seriously doubt the Patriot Act would fly.
Of course there was the War Measures act that Trudeau threw up during the FLQ crisis but the Charter of Rights and Freedoms put that to bed.
(Scuse me while I waffle a bit)
The problem is that majority of voters are not the types to spark up a doob. This is also why there are not stricter tests on elderly drivers who have developed cataracts. Any politician who goes against the demographic of their typical joe voter may be looking for another job next election.
Granted there is more acceptance of it but there is still a stigma.
if the govt would actually put the money where their mouth is.
One thing the govt doesn't do is shell out the cash where it is needed. Unless you think another golf course is needed.
I used to take the 50 which picked me up in front of my Apartment building and drop me off downtown and vice versa. I live near Lincoln Fields so it is easy to get the 97 or 95 as well.
:)
Started a new job today at Entrust and was wondering driving home in the snow why I wanted a job where I drove to work
I mulled about snitching on them but I had heard that they had treated their IT staff like crap and had heard horror stories about how their other staff was treated but figured that karma is a bitch and someday something would happen. Plus I moved on. This was a year or two back so things could be different by now.
If I was to guess, I would assume they are taking Active Directories and applying it to the file system where each file is an object with specific attributes. Third party vendors would be able to expand the schema to include their specific file format. i.e Winamp install would add ID3 specified tags in as attributes for WinFS.
Nice to hear but not really surprising. Law firms have always been the staunch bastions of hope for alternatives to MS Office due to the control that you get with Wordperfect.
Why wouldn't the DOJ want to do it as well.
Funny story, I did some IT work for these guys http://www.mbm.com/ who are an IP law firm in Canada and they were the worst for pirating software. I think they had licenses for some COTS workstations that one of the previous IT admins had purchased but they had gone with beige boxes and had installed the same licensed copy (not MS Select) on the remainder of their workstations (about 60 or 70). They had also an Access based application (PAATSY or something like that) which had been licensed for a bunch of users but everyone in the company used it. To allow more people to use it they copied the database several times and if a user needed read access they would open a copy instead.
I don't think they had bought enough CALS for their Exchange box either and had only 1 licensed copy of Wordperfect.
well.. if he did sports on the 3 days that he's got off he would be better off probably
True, any exercise is better than none but ideally he should be breaking it up to allow the body to recuperate a day before doing it again. He could break up the exercises to isolate during the 3 days off but by the third day the DOMS would be a serious bitch.
He should see if he can get an extended lunch and get a workout done in there at least once or twice during the 4 days on.
My brother did something similar when he worked for Molson in Toronto (Oracle work not work on the manf line (I miss the free beer though)).
He worked from home 4 out of the 5 days and would drive in most of the way on Fridays to work but would park about 10k away and run the last bit there and back.
3 hours by car is frequently more by bicycle.
Most likely but not necessarily. It could be extreme traffic that is taking up a good portion of the drive.
My last job I would take a bus downtown. People couldn't understand it until I pointed out that due to the bussing system here in Ottawa it takes as long by car to get downtown (sometimes longer if the weather is crap) than by bus and saves me a fortune in parking. However I live along the main bus feed. If I was off, this wouldn't be true.
This is true about biking here as well except for when the snow is on the ground.
connect to network shares on other windows systems as something other than the Guest account /USER:\" used to work.
Are you sure about that? I know XP Home can't join a domain but mapping a drive as another user? This functionality was allowed in Workgroups in general with 9x i.e "Net use Z: \\Workstationname\Sharename
Honestly I don't know as I have been fortunate not to have to use XP Home at any point.
There is a similar discussion going on at Fark. The FCC came back and said that there is nothing wrong with broadcasting Saving Private Ryan uncut due to the nature of the movie.
Someone pointed out that sure violence is allowed but Janet Jackson can't show off her saggy boob (my description)
It was then pointed out that with SPR you know it is going to be pretty gritty but no one expected to see a breast at the Super Bowl. Course someone pointed out who really watches it and it went downhill from there but there is a time and a place for everything. And there is never a time or place for Janet's boob.
He's probably most well known as the high pitched rapper on the track 'Fett's Vette' that you probably have an MP3 of somewhere
Not bloody likely
I agree with the parent (and he shouldn't have been marked as flamebait). There is never a guarantee that the employees will stay just because their manager decided to take a pay cut. If the company needs to lay off now who says that they may lay off in the future? Chances are when the situation gets there people start leaving due to uncertainty. Sad but true. I have been through two layoffs 1 was when Newbridge started axing people due to stock deflation. The second was because a govt project was ahead of schedule, under budget and actually working succesfully. Both cases after the layoffs people have left and I suspect that even if management had taken pay cuts they still would have (in the last case, their budget got cut so short there is no allowance for overtime so essentially mgmt has taken a pay cut).
I noticed that with WinAmp 2.x
When I had it set to shuffle with a playlist of my mp3s it would always play the same songs as long as I started at the first song. Very strange.
Latest doesn't seem to have that problem though
You may want to look into Dosbox http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 so you can get rid of 98 and not have to reboot. It may do what you need.
This could be beneficial for Linux, however you need to get the mom and pop stores more likely to support the OS. What this could end up doing is force better driver support especially from ATI and nVidia.
As they are the ones who usually do the OS install for the unwashed masses they are essentially the ones who may control availability of said hardware. Especially when someone comes in and says "Gee I want a computer but I don't know anything about them" Do you think the guy who recommends the hardware is going to say to get a card that is a pain to get X setup on?
It's understandable for MS to do this, they are a company, they need to keep their revenue stream and everything before hasn't been able to do it.
STFU you MS shill. You bastards always come out of the closet everytime someone posts some problem they're having with windows. SHILL
No mostly when some zealot starts using old evidence as reasons to make a tired jab at Microsoft. Just the facts maam. Granted they need to greatly improve their security (although 2003 has taken some great strides towards it) but stability is not an issue as much as it used to be.
Plus I dual boot Gentoo on both my laptop and desktop so it isn't like I hate Linux. I don't but the fact is that if Windows is rolled out properly it isn't a nightmare to admin.
P.S have some cajones and post like a man not anonymously
So it is true that there is no honour among thieves.
The idea of standing up to the man against something you believe in is admirable but in this case stupid.
However if the people who did donate stole more in software than they donated then they are still ahead. I mean 1 copy of Windows 2003 with 5 Cals which is the minimum I could find goes for $1000 CDN
I agree and then once you know that you may as well automate it in some fashion like Gentoo. Oh yeah that is what I did :)
That would be funny... 4 years ago. I have only had one BSOD in about 2 years and it was doing something to the OS that I shouldn't have been.
Like it or not the buggy and crashing left and right Windows we have come to love and despise is going the way of the dodo.
Now security... is still getting there.
You need a thief to catch a thief.
Sandra recognized it as a "M4 Athlon 64 (K8 Clawhammer)" but it said it had NX but no AMD64 Technology
Although CPU-Z says it was 754, Sandra said it was a Socket A which sounds more believable
I am giving that a shot right now but, I had looked into it before thinking the same thing but the only Sempron I found with a 754 package had more cache built in than this one.
Very strange
Strangely enough, although it recognizes my cpu as "AMD Athlon(tm)XP Processor 2800+" Installing CpuFreq support for the Athlon64 rather than the Athlon XP seems to have got Powernowd working.
I suspect the new Athlon M processors are like Athlon64 lobotomized. CPUZ recognizes it as a Sledgehammer but Gentoo AMD64 won't install as it says it doesn't have long support