Standard approach for solving installation issues:
Check installation media.
Check cables.
Remove components; add one at a time.
Swap memory/move to empty bays.
Change RAM completely. (Or test it with MemTest86+ et al, i.e. the REALLY FUCKING LONG way)
Change hard disk (or test it with manufacturer-provided tools et al)
Test with different CPU, if available
THEN test motherboard.
Replace power supply.
At this point, it's a complicated problem.
This isn't even geeky; it's rote procedure for anyone that's been in the tech support business long enough to see enough weird crap happen. Glad he learned, though; you need to start somewhere!
For those that didn't read the article, he apparently fiddled with BIOS settings and replaced the mobo before even looking at the components.
(Obligatory nostalgic moment: I remember when Windows was much younger and error messages were oh-so-much crueler. Those were the times. Then again, blue screens nowadays are still pretty cruel, though way more informative. [STOP codes, memdumps, and even culprit FILES sometimes are great] Remember the completely useless VxD blue screen errors from W9x?)
Sex is an instinctive trait. Similarly, a person's attractiveness delves deeper than the eye can see or the (conscious) mind can perceive.
Ever wonder why some dudes that are BUTT ugly manage to get with drop-dead gorgeous women? Some of those guys know how to walk, talk and even radiate qualities that attract women in ways even they don't fully understand. Pick-up artists spend most of their practice tapping these "switches" to either (a) attract/seduce as many (preferably HOT) women as possible and/or (b) compensate for areas that would normally make them unattractive to most of them (like looks, lack of money, etc.). Women, in fact, practice the same "magic;" many are trained at much earlier ages from reading popular "girlie" magazines like Cosmopolitan and Seventeen. Us guys think those pages are full of fluff; women soak it up...and it works.
I'll keep this abridged and just link to Mystery's (Eric von Marcovik) bio. This guy is a total nut, not that physically attractive and way the fuck detached from reality...but he can do practically whatever he wants with practically any woman he wants, anywhere0...and make them like it! (Disclaimer: I was "involved" in that community for a few months two years ago in the quest to fix a lot of personal social issues. No, I did not do the boot camps: way too much money. Yes, the basics did wonders for me.)
So what does this have to do with blind people (or people close to it)? Even though they, at worst case, may not "follow social norms" when it comes to physical attractiveness, that doesn't mean they don't know what "sexiness" is since the perception of "sexiness" is much deeper than our understanding can comprehend...
Obligatory example: My former girlfriend of four years (as in first, not only) had a friend who was blind, but was a total sexaholic. This girl LOVED having sex...but she was completely blind. Example deux: I had a brief stint with a woman who was almost completely blind as well, and she was way hornier than I was.
Didn't even read the article. Simplify Media has been doing this for years. Many of us (here) with iPod Touches/iPhones know how to stream music locally. This is an obvious advertisement.
It is like the entire fashion industry is in denial about what medium they working in.
They're (mostly) not. People have been taught for a long time that fashion is largely about what people wear. In reality, fashion is an art form like the performing arts, sculpture, painting or even programming. Fashion is about enhancing the aesthetic of the human body through decoration. It's about pushing the limits of what we as people (and as society) think of beauty. The former notion is clothing; it's certainly a practical and pragmatic byproduct of fashion, but it is not fashion.
This is a chief reason as to why pieces look anatomically incorrect on drawings or why autos look so far-fetched before they hit the production line (which leads to skinny, tall and, sometimes, underfed models and dashboards/interiors that make zero sense). Not all clothing is designed from concept to be sold at Macy's or Walmart; again, that's not what fashion's about. Some pieces are designed to push manufacturing limits; others are designed to just be pretty. When/if they ARE sold, they are usually sold in very exclusive outlets at super-high markups, partly because of manufacturing process (hand-made in a first-world shop or factory) and materials (finest silk/wool/you name it), but also because of demand. By the time they hit Macy's, they're already super old-school in the fashion world.
It's all about emotion. A fashion-obsessed girlfriend can tell you that.
MuscleNerd is a pretty active contributor on the iPhone dev team, and has assisted significantly in finding vulnerabilities to SIM-unlock and jailbreak the iPhone with. It was only a matter of time, anyway.
Why don't you take a peek at crime statistics by city and then take a peek at the articles for each city listed (preferably, the cities with high numbers of violent crime per year). Tell us if you think the poster above you is being racist then.
Hell, you could even do some volunteering for some school or organization in your local ghetto and ask some people about what goes on where they live. Let us know what you find.
But frankly the way society is going we're getting closer and closer to the point when some man talks to kids in the park and is arrested as a direct result.
Actually, here in NYC, it is apparently illegal for a male to be in a childrens' park alone and can very well be arrested for doing so.
I got it worse. When I was in high school, there was this kid who was taller, stronger and (obviously) way more popular than I was. Since this was the perfect scenario for him to bully me, he did. And for the better part of a year, I did nothing in fear of getting my ass handed to me if I did.
One year, while we were in gym, he was assigned to the same "team" as I was and as I should've expected, he beamed the ball right to my face. That was my breaking point; when we got back in the locker room, we exchanged words and I punched him square in the nose. We faught; I got my face beat in and won the prize of getting suspended for a week. Despite having told administrators about this for months, if not longer.
As it's probably been said already, the easiest way to get employed practically anywhere is by networking. This, of course, is much easier to do if you live in a larger city where business networking events happen more frequently. This actually works better than most other methods because you build rapport with people you might eventually work for, which, in turn, makes it easier to prove your skills and find a good place to be.
You can also try joining mailing lists. One list that I'm on, which is supposed to discuss C++ development and such, has been practically posting SOLELY job offers, all of which are pretty highly salaried. (The last posting I saw advertised a position that paid $200K/year in NYC for a senior C++ development position.) http://www.meetup.com/ makes it easy to find such lists, though you can also find similar lists on open-source projects you find interesting.
Yet another way to look for jobs is by joining forums that interest you. There are tons of forums that discuss programming, many of which are separated by language. Proving your salt on a forum and gaining some credibility can make it easier for you to find jobs, though they come by less often in my past experience.
If you must play the online resume game, play with the keywords, as most online resume systems filter solely by that criterion. I believe that is a reason why so many applicants who call themselves developers even get through the door; online resume submission is a fairly simple system to defeat once you play with them enough.
The last alternative that you can consider is using a headhunter to find a job for you. They usually tweak your resume to make it attractive, and use their network of contacts to get you interviews. I've met a few headhunters from events, and they spend a substantial amount of time just meeting people expressly for this purpose.
Were Rapidshare, Mediafire, et al ever intended to be used for sharing illegal content? I would think they weren't, since Rapidshare removes copyrighted material when it finds it, along with some of the other file sharing hosts (SendSpace, Mediafire, etc)...
Tons of advancements in operating systems and computer science, for starters. Whether that is more important than the accomplishments from Google Labs is debatable.
It's simpler than that. Bing offers nothing that makes users want to use their search engine instead of Google's. Google is a verb in the English language. When people think of finding something on the web, they think of Google.
Bing doesn't even look like Google when one reaches their landing page; this, accompanied with worries about malware search engines and such, would make people who aren't as in-the-know wonder why that isn't Google. Intelligently, Google protected their landing page to prevent Microsoft from doing exactly that. (This mitigates the argument that making Bing the default search page would steal Google's market share.)
I love their photography, but I'm an amateur photographer, so I'm biased. I would bet dollars to donuts (who came up with that saying? It's stupid!) that most people don't care about the photos or necessarily want them in the first place.
Notice that none of these points address differences in search technology. I think that Bing isn't getting the market share they want because they waited WAY too long to make a dent, just like they waited too long to release the Zune (which, like Bing, has few features that would make people want to not get a household name, especially since the inception of the iPod Touch). Worse, Yahoo! was the place for searching the web before Google stole their thunder, and MSN Search was bloated and unmoving even THEN. (Reference: http://www.msn.com/ NOW hasn't changed much from then in terms of bloat.) Hotmail (now Live! Mail) is a good proof to this. Hotmail was LEADING THE WAY in terms of free e-mail services, with Yahoo going head-to-head with them. Their service was pretty good and definitely reliable (I've never had problems with my msn.com or hotmail.com e-mail addresses when I've used them). Even though Google Mail has been released to the public for years, there are still PLENTY of people who use Hotmail (as shown here , as Hotmail ranks higher than gmail).
In regards to their technology, I think it's actually quite good, especially when compared to MSN Search (which was useless 90% of the time). It does suffer a bit on the tail end, though. Example: my school gives every student a MSDN Academic Alliance account upon request, but I always forget the site. (Yes, I can use bookmarks. NO, I will not make one.) Using the search terms 'stevens msdnaa' on Google gives me my IT department's wiki article on it right off the bat as well as many articles below it that also contain the link. (I know the person who runs that blog, as he's also a Stevens student.) Bing, on the other hand, also gives me the link right from the get go, but wanders into irrelevance after the second hit. When I searched that term in Bing for the first time, I didn't even get the link.
Good point, but considering that my review got two acknowledgments and an equally long and damning review is one of the first listed, I don't think they're filtering (this restaurant).
Based on a visit I made to a Yelp-popular breakfast restaurant a month ago, I don't think Yelp is tailoring the reviews for favorable restaurants. I went there when I visited Chicago for the first time because newspaper articles and Yelp alike were hailing their pancakes as the best in town, and I love breakfast more than anything. I was extremely disappointed with the quality of their food (which was a basic omelet and pancake breakfast; kind of hard for a popular restaurant like theirs to screw up), and wrote a very scathing review on Yelp about it. I wasn't the only one either.
Weeks later, the review is still up, along with other similarly low-rated reviews.
I will agree with fm6's post and say that Yelp is excellent for delivering hype! That wasn't the only time I left a Yelp-recommended restaurant with a sour tongue; a friend of mine and I went to a small tapas bar (oh, how I hate them so...give me REAL spanish dinner, please!) that was also highly recommended on Yelp, only to find the food mediocre at best, and significantly paling in comparison to other Spanish restaurants I've visited, some of which are in my home town!
In spite of those run-ins, Yelp has helped me find a LOT of great places to eat, date and have a good time. Their forums are also quite interesting as well and have helped me tremendously when I went on my recent travel expeditions. I've heard their Elite events are even better, but I haven't made time to post reviews lately.
It seems that the presentation focuses heavily on the NetXtreme framework, which is specific to Broadcom. Doesn't Intel, the other major NIC vendor/manufacturer, use their own proprietary security and administrative protocols on their devices?
I wonder how secure Realtek's stuff is; their drivers/software leave me to think that their hardware code is ripe for discovery...
I should have made my point more clearly. What I was suggesting was indivudualized virtual PCs that would only be used for web browsing. (In fact, 'dumb terminals' might be better terminology.) Each online banking customer would connect to their own (very) small, Linux-based virtual PC via a customized client on the web browser (like how MetaFrame connects users to a Citrix session on the web without the dedicated client) that only contains a web browser that can only connect to the bank's online banking website.
It would be like booting to a Live CD, except it wouldn't require rebooting or any extra software that the user needs to install separately.
Here's the chief reason why Live CD's probably won't work:
CNL is seriously considering making available free Ubuntu Linux bootable "live CD" discs in its branches and by mail. The discs would boot up Linux, run Firefox and be configured to go directly to CNL Bank's Web site.
The entire purpose of online banking is to allow its subscribers to conduct their usual transactions in a way that integrates with their daily workflow. This runs completely against that goal, since the customer would have to reboot their computer (which is an impractical solution in some situations and an impossible one in others) just to check their balances. Completely unacceptable.
The approach that I think is more practical (along with others here) is virtual PC access. It would be killer if each online banking customer got a small, special-purpose Linux-based virtual PC that can only be controlled by their own Java clients and can only access their regular online banking web site. Of course, it would probably have to be on a completely isolated network to be more effective. That would be both isolated enough and practical enough to be a secure alternative to the way we bank online today, though I'm sure this is hardly trivial to implement...
The main links are Slashdotted, so here's its Google Cache: link
Are all of Best Buy's ads printed nationwide, or do they vary by region? If the latter case is true, then I can't say I'm truly surprised, as shoddy areas would be more likely to offer shoddy services such as this. On the other hand, if the false service was nationally marketed, then it would make me even more worried (and more confident) that Best Buy is caring significantly less about being a quality chain post Circuit City/CompUSA's demise.
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I've done both of those things. I was just throwing that out there, though.
Standard approach for solving installation issues:
This isn't even geeky; it's rote procedure for anyone that's been in the tech support business long enough to see enough weird crap happen. Glad he learned, though; you need to start somewhere!
For those that didn't read the article, he apparently fiddled with BIOS settings and replaced the mobo before even looking at the components.
(Obligatory nostalgic moment: I remember when Windows was much younger and error messages were oh-so-much crueler. Those were the times. Then again, blue screens nowadays are still pretty cruel, though way more informative. [STOP codes, memdumps, and even culprit FILES sometimes are great] Remember the completely useless VxD blue screen errors from W9x?)
Have you actually smelled a woman's private bits? If you thought the NYC subway smelled bad, wait 'til you hook up with some chicks at a bar. Whoa.
Some pussy smells can make you tolerate anything afterward.
Sex is an instinctive trait. Similarly, a person's attractiveness delves deeper than the eye can see or the (conscious) mind can perceive.
Ever wonder why some dudes that are BUTT ugly manage to get with drop-dead gorgeous women? Some of those guys know how to walk, talk and even radiate qualities that attract women in ways even they don't fully understand. Pick-up artists spend most of their practice tapping these "switches" to either (a) attract/seduce as many (preferably HOT) women as possible and/or (b) compensate for areas that would normally make them unattractive to most of them (like looks, lack of money, etc.). Women, in fact, practice the same "magic;" many are trained at much earlier ages from reading popular "girlie" magazines like Cosmopolitan and Seventeen. Us guys think those pages are full of fluff; women soak it up...and it works.
I'll keep this abridged and just link to Mystery's (Eric von Marcovik) bio. This guy is a total nut, not that physically attractive and way the fuck detached from reality...but he can do practically whatever he wants with practically any woman he wants, anywhere0...and make them like it! (Disclaimer: I was "involved" in that community for a few months two years ago in the quest to fix a lot of personal social issues. No, I did not do the boot camps: way too much money. Yes, the basics did wonders for me.)
So what does this have to do with blind people (or people close to it)? Even though they, at worst case, may not "follow social norms" when it comes to physical attractiveness, that doesn't mean they don't know what "sexiness" is since the perception of "sexiness" is much deeper than our understanding can comprehend...
Obligatory example: My former girlfriend of four years (as in first, not only) had a friend who was blind, but was a total sexaholic. This girl LOVED having sex...but she was completely blind. Example deux: I had a brief stint with a woman who was almost completely blind as well, and she was way hornier than I was.
Sorry; forgot to mention that you can listen to your music ANYWHERE with Simplify or other custom solutions.
Didn't even read the article. Simplify Media has been doing this for years. Many of us (here) with iPod Touches/iPhones know how to stream music locally. This is an obvious advertisement.
It is like the entire fashion industry is in denial about what medium they working in.
They're (mostly) not. People have been taught for a long time that fashion is largely about what people wear. In reality, fashion is an art form like the performing arts, sculpture, painting or even programming. Fashion is about enhancing the aesthetic of the human body through decoration. It's about pushing the limits of what we as people (and as society) think of beauty. The former notion is clothing; it's certainly a practical and pragmatic byproduct of fashion, but it is not fashion.
This is a chief reason as to why pieces look anatomically incorrect on drawings or why autos look so far-fetched before they hit the production line (which leads to skinny, tall and, sometimes, underfed models and dashboards/interiors that make zero sense). Not all clothing is designed from concept to be sold at Macy's or Walmart; again, that's not what fashion's about. Some pieces are designed to push manufacturing limits; others are designed to just be pretty. When/if they ARE sold, they are usually sold in very exclusive outlets at super-high markups, partly because of manufacturing process (hand-made in a first-world shop or factory) and materials (finest silk/wool/you name it), but also because of demand. By the time they hit Macy's, they're already super old-school in the fashion world.
It's all about emotion. A fashion-obsessed girlfriend can tell you that.
Not to mention that (I believe) it was one of the very few that originally supported iPhone music synchronization on Linux.
It was a great music player alternative for Linux. Fortunately, there are many more.
MuscleNerd is a pretty active contributor on the iPhone dev team, and has assisted significantly in finding vulnerabilities to SIM-unlock and jailbreak the iPhone with. It was only a matter of time, anyway.
Your thinly veiled racism fails to impress.
Why don't you take a peek at crime statistics by city and then take a peek at the articles for each city listed (preferably, the cities with high numbers of violent crime per year). Tell us if you think the poster above you is being racist then.
Hell, you could even do some volunteering for some school or organization in your local ghetto and ask some people about what goes on where they live. Let us know what you find.
But frankly the way society is going we're getting closer and closer to the point when some man talks to kids in the park and is arrested as a direct result.
Actually, here in NYC, it is apparently illegal for a male to be in a childrens' park alone and can very well be arrested for doing so.
I got it worse. When I was in high school, there was this kid who was taller, stronger and (obviously) way more popular than I was. Since this was the perfect scenario for him to bully me, he did. And for the better part of a year, I did nothing in fear of getting my ass handed to me if I did.
One year, while we were in gym, he was assigned to the same "team" as I was and as I should've expected, he beamed the ball right to my face. That was my breaking point; when we got back in the locker room, we exchanged words and I punched him square in the nose. We faught; I got my face beat in and won the prize of getting suspended for a week. Despite having told administrators about this for months, if not longer.
C'est la vie.
Hell; sometimes, you'd be lucky if you could tell the difference between a 14 year old and a 21 year old...
As it's probably been said already, the easiest way to get employed practically anywhere is by networking. This, of course, is much easier to do if you live in a larger city where business networking events happen more frequently. This actually works better than most other methods because you build rapport with people you might eventually work for, which, in turn, makes it easier to prove your skills and find a good place to be.
You can also try joining mailing lists. One list that I'm on, which is supposed to discuss C++ development and such, has been practically posting SOLELY job offers, all of which are pretty highly salaried. (The last posting I saw advertised a position that paid $200K/year in NYC for a senior C++ development position.) http://www.meetup.com/ makes it easy to find such lists, though you can also find similar lists on open-source projects you find interesting.
Yet another way to look for jobs is by joining forums that interest you. There are tons of forums that discuss programming, many of which are separated by language. Proving your salt on a forum and gaining some credibility can make it easier for you to find jobs, though they come by less often in my past experience.
If you must play the online resume game, play with the keywords, as most online resume systems filter solely by that criterion. I believe that is a reason why so many applicants who call themselves developers even get through the door; online resume submission is a fairly simple system to defeat once you play with them enough.
The last alternative that you can consider is using a headhunter to find a job for you. They usually tweak your resume to make it attractive, and use their network of contacts to get you interviews. I've met a few headhunters from events, and they spend a substantial amount of time just meeting people expressly for this purpose.
Hope this helps!
Were Rapidshare, Mediafire, et al ever intended to be used for sharing illegal content? I would think they weren't, since Rapidshare removes copyrighted material when it finds it, along with some of the other file sharing hosts (SendSpace, Mediafire, etc)...
But what has MS Research given us
Tons of advancements in operating systems and computer science, for starters. Whether that is more important than the accomplishments from Google Labs is debatable.
It's simpler than that. Bing offers nothing that makes users want to use their search engine instead of Google's. Google is a verb in the English language. When people think of finding something on the web, they think of Google.
Bing doesn't even look like Google when one reaches their landing page; this, accompanied with worries about malware search engines and such, would make people who aren't as in-the-know wonder why that isn't Google. Intelligently, Google protected their landing page to prevent Microsoft from doing exactly that. (This mitigates the argument that making Bing the default search page would steal Google's market share.)
I love their photography, but I'm an amateur photographer, so I'm biased. I would bet dollars to donuts (who came up with that saying? It's stupid!) that most people don't care about the photos or necessarily want them in the first place.
Notice that none of these points address differences in search technology. I think that Bing isn't getting the market share they want because they waited WAY too long to make a dent, just like they waited too long to release the Zune (which, like Bing, has few features that would make people want to not get a household name, especially since the inception of the iPod Touch). Worse, Yahoo! was the place for searching the web before Google stole their thunder, and MSN Search was bloated and unmoving even THEN. (Reference: http://www.msn.com/ NOW hasn't changed much from then in terms of bloat.) Hotmail (now Live! Mail) is a good proof to this. Hotmail was LEADING THE WAY in terms of free e-mail services, with Yahoo going head-to-head with them. Their service was pretty good and definitely reliable (I've never had problems with my msn.com or hotmail.com e-mail addresses when I've used them). Even though Google Mail has been released to the public for years, there are still PLENTY of people who use Hotmail (as shown here , as Hotmail ranks higher than gmail).
In regards to their technology, I think it's actually quite good, especially when compared to MSN Search (which was useless 90% of the time). It does suffer a bit on the tail end, though. Example: my school gives every student a MSDN Academic Alliance account upon request, but I always forget the site. (Yes, I can use bookmarks. NO, I will not make one.) Using the search terms 'stevens msdnaa' on Google gives me my IT department's wiki article on it right off the bat as well as many articles below it that also contain the link. (I know the person who runs that blog, as he's also a Stevens student.) Bing, on the other hand, also gives me the link right from the get go, but wanders into irrelevance after the second hit. When I searched that term in Bing for the first time, I didn't even get the link.
Good point, but considering that my review got two acknowledgments and an equally long and damning review is one of the first listed, I don't think they're filtering (this restaurant).
Link: read
Based on a visit I made to a Yelp-popular breakfast restaurant a month ago, I don't think Yelp is tailoring the reviews for favorable restaurants. I went there when I visited Chicago for the first time because newspaper articles and Yelp alike were hailing their pancakes as the best in town, and I love breakfast more than anything. I was extremely disappointed with the quality of their food (which was a basic omelet and pancake breakfast; kind of hard for a popular restaurant like theirs to screw up), and wrote a very scathing review on Yelp about it. I wasn't the only one either.
Weeks later, the review is still up, along with other similarly low-rated reviews.
I will agree with fm6's post and say that Yelp is excellent for delivering hype! That wasn't the only time I left a Yelp-recommended restaurant with a sour tongue; a friend of mine and I went to a small tapas bar (oh, how I hate them so...give me REAL spanish dinner, please!) that was also highly recommended on Yelp, only to find the food mediocre at best, and significantly paling in comparison to other Spanish restaurants I've visited, some of which are in my home town!
In spite of those run-ins, Yelp has helped me find a LOT of great places to eat, date and have a good time. Their forums are also quite interesting as well and have helped me tremendously when I went on my recent travel expeditions. I've heard their Elite events are even better, but I haven't made time to post reviews lately.
It seems that the presentation focuses heavily on the NetXtreme framework, which is specific to Broadcom. Doesn't Intel, the other major NIC vendor/manufacturer, use their own proprietary security and administrative protocols on their devices?
I wonder how secure Realtek's stuff is; their drivers/software leave me to think that their hardware code is ripe for discovery...
P please consider the environment before printing this post.
If the host is compromised, no guest is secure.
I should have made my point more clearly. What I was suggesting was indivudualized virtual PCs that would only be used for web browsing. (In fact, 'dumb terminals' might be better terminology.) Each online banking customer would connect to their own (very) small, Linux-based virtual PC via a customized client on the web browser (like how MetaFrame connects users to a Citrix session on the web without the dedicated client) that only contains a web browser that can only connect to the bank's online banking website.
It would be like booting to a Live CD, except it wouldn't require rebooting or any extra software that the user needs to install separately.
Here's the chief reason why Live CD's probably won't work:
CNL is seriously considering making available free Ubuntu Linux bootable "live CD" discs in its branches and by mail. The discs would boot up Linux, run Firefox and be configured to go directly to CNL Bank's Web site.
The entire purpose of online banking is to allow its subscribers to conduct their usual transactions in a way that integrates with their daily workflow. This runs completely against that goal, since the customer would have to reboot their computer (which is an impractical solution in some situations and an impossible one in others) just to check their balances. Completely unacceptable.
The approach that I think is more practical (along with others here) is virtual PC access. It would be killer if each online banking customer got a small, special-purpose Linux-based virtual PC that can only be controlled by their own Java clients and can only access their regular online banking web site. Of course, it would probably have to be on a completely isolated network to be more effective. That would be both isolated enough and practical enough to be a secure alternative to the way we bank online today, though I'm sure this is hardly trivial to implement...
I do the same, and, unfortunately, Geek squad isn't the only dirt in the water...