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- Software Support ala Symantec NOT!
- Folks, I got to tell you that the software industry is not getting better. It is getting worse! Recently, I purchased Symantec's Norton 360 and it turned into a disaster. I'll give some history here. I was travelling and my notebook bombed on me. So I stopped into the local...
- Tags: SECURITY, FluxIt, Symantec Corp., Norton Co., Norton 360, software
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- Me and Chuck Norris are alike
- I have never done push ups, the earth moves away instead.My computer does not get virus's, virus's get me.I am so tough that hardware becomes software.I am the 8th layer of the OSI model.I am not on the internet, the internet is on me.I am not part of the universe,...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Chuck Norris, FluxIT
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Chaotic Evil, Hate, and IT
- What is chaotic evil? Is it random? Why does it hate? What does it have to do with IT? Is it a computer game?Chaotic EvilNot hate. Hate is way too consuming.Evil is the abject refusal to consider anyone or anything beyond one's self. It is sociopathy and worse....
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Games, FluxIt, Real Life, Hatred, Chaotic Evil, women, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- An IT Guys Sex Life is Digital
- It seems like sex life is digital. Love is either a little bit or a full byte. It is either on or off. I am the one or I am a zero. When I am dating all my money is in some register and when I am not...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Professional development, FluxIt, women, MrMiami, ex, career, hate, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- What About Global Warming?
- I read through several Global Warming threads and saw many things that were curious. Then I came across this article:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.htmlWhile I have not made a decision on the human contribution to Global Warming, I have a tendency towards a neglible impact. I believe that Global Warming is a natural process...
- Tags: FluxIt, global warming
- Discussion threads 2007-03-03
- What is The Real Advantage of Windows Vista?
- I have not been following the Windows Vista thing and been focused on other things. Could someone give me the real one line lowdown on Windows Vista?You get to support M$ in a way that no one else doesYou become a paying Beta Tester for M$ as you pay when...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, FluxIt, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-23
- A DIFFERENT TOPIC : YO MAMA IS
- Yo Mama is so fat, it takes two buses and a train to get on her good side.Is there a PC-Humour Web SiteHi TE2,Point taken.But just out of interest, where do you go for a laugh?What do you watch? What do you read? I'm trying to rec
- Tags: duck, FluxIt, GeoBub, MrMiami, off-topic, YO MAMA IS, yo mama jokes
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
- TERMINAL SERVER 2003
- I am wanting to set up the Terminal Server to provide thin client services for several purposes. I have never used this before.The first purpose is to serve as a Point of Sale system with three sessions servicing registers and one session for a man
- Tags: FluxIt, GeoBub, Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, MrMiami, pos, terminal server, windows, workstations
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- WHO'S WATCHING THE WATCHER
- "Houston, We have a problem!"Ricart on the planet below hails the Enterprise, 'Ricart to Picard,.. We havea problem! ... It’s worse than we suspected, the Matocans are beginning to believein a God!'This third season fourth episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ran in the early 1990’s and was curiously...
- Tags: Captain Picard, discrete particle, FluxIt, GeoBub, God, information theory, MrMiami, off-topic, particle, star trek, theory
- Discussion threads 2006-10-22
- ROBOTICS FUN
- There are an incredible number of robotic websites on the internet having a wide range of components that can plug onto the micro-controllers that include; accelerometers, servors, actuators, compasses, stepper motors, vast array of sensors, and cameras. These micro-controllers can be programmed right from your PC in C++, PBasic, and...
- Tags: FluxIt, GeoBub, MrMiami, robotics
- Discussion threads 2005-05-09
- DESKTOP FABRICATION A BOON OR A BUST?
- DESKTOP FABRICATION A BOON OR A BUST?Some 22 years ago I wrote a 50 page paper on computer integrated manufacturing, CIM. In that paper I discussed AI, MRP, DRP, ERP, Technical doumentation, CAPP, CAD/CAM etc... The focus was on massive manufacturing facilities and streamlining of the operations. Little did I...
- Tags: boon, bust, desktop, fabrication, FluxIt, GeoBub, Kinkos, manufacturing, MrMiami
- Discussion threads 2005-04-28
- THE VIRUS: SILICON VS CARBON LIFE
- Many fictional articles attempt to make a case that silicon based computer viruses are approaching a time that they can 'mutate' into living viruses that infect carbon based life forms. There may be some truth in part to that.If silicon based computers are used to farm and harvest nanobots. Computer...
- Tags: virus, computer, anti-Christ, carbon, silicon, MrMiami, security, GeoBub, FluxIt
- Discussion threads 2005-03-16
- INFORMATION AS A FOUNDATION
- INFORMATION AS A FOUNDATIONof the universe is an emerging view in deep science. In fact, the universe is built on far more information than its capacity to store it. More interesting, the basis of the particle universe is digital and not analog. This then brings into question what is our...
- Tags: chaos, FluxIt, GeoBub, MrMiami, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2005-03-08
- ABUSE OF POWER; 911, Africa, Tsunami
- ABUSE OF POWER; 911, Africa, TsunamiA repeated theme that comes up time and time again is the abuse by people in power. Nearly every natural disaster is surrounded by looters, pouchers, skimmers, corruption, and graft.Here in Florida following the four hurricanes last year FEMA dispensed millions to those not in...
- Tags: aid, FluxIt, GeoBub, government, MrMiami, NGO, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2005-01-09
- TSUNAMI AND IT
- Given the devastation and death caused by the recent Tsunami in the IO region how can IT provide relief support, warning, and economic recovery for that region?Immediate needs much more basicThe skills that are needed at this early stage in the tragedy are medical, forensic, and I guess counselling.I would...
- Tags: FluxIt, GeoBub, information technology, MrMiami, off-topic, Tsunami
- Discussion threads 2005-01-04
- TECH'S KNOW IT ALL
- TECH'S KNOW IT ALLWhy is it so many tech's think they know it all?As I read down through many of the postings, people correct others with just as incorrect information as the ones the are correcting. Is it possible that no one knows anything? There are so many geniuses that...
- Tags: FluxIt, GeoBub, MrMiami, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2004-12-30
- ORDERS TO IRAQ
- ORDERS TO IRAQGuys and Gals, I am taking orders to Iraq for 6 months to a year. I'll be providing combat repair and recovery of Marine Corps Aircraft. I'll be leaving early in 2005.It is exciting as I can hear the Raiders March from Indiana Jones. I wonder what kind...
- Tags: adventure, aircraft, FluxIt, GeoBub, Marines, MrMiami, off-topic, Semper Fi, training
- Discussion threads 2004-12-17
- 3 DIMENSIONAL DATA STORAGE
- 3 DIMENSIONAL DATA STORAGEResearch is currently ongoing into a concept of 3D data storage and is intended to replace current mechanical methods of storing data. The ole spindle and platter may become an artifact in the Smithsonian next to the phonograph.The entire concept centers on holographic principles. Under this theory...
- Tags: apple, FluxIt, GeoBub, hardware, MrMiami, storage
- Discussion threads 2004-12-13
- IT LONER VS COMMUNITY
- IT LONER VS COMMUNITYI guess I should begin by asking what defines a loner? There are many thoughts. However, there are two distinct definitions that break out from all the others. They are:1. A person who is socially disfunctional and has behavioral issues that affect his daily life. -OR-2....
- Tags: computer, FluxIt, GeoBub, hacker, individualist, information technology, IT LONER, MrMiami, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2004-12-13
- PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS OF IT
- PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS OF ITWhat is the essential nature of information technology? That is to say what it is that makes IT, IT? Is there a virtue to IT? That is to state is there a natural truth to the being and character of IT? Can IT professionals think in philosophical...
- Tags: DNA, FluxIt, GeoBub, information technology, MrMiami, Randomness, universe
- Discussion threads 2004-11-29
