Peace, one thing we all pray for. most religion start and end their prayers with it, but nobody had ever asked what will happen IF we have to live in peace.do we pray for peace because we know we cannot get it?.
if we have peace: most un-industrized countries won't export/import arms, lots of industries that produce and deal on military hardwares will close up. dropping millions of able bodied men/women to the street/responsibility of social welfare.forcing the cost of labour to go down, and of course bringing down cost of goods.this in turn, makes production of anything cheap and less profitable.
if there is peace: countries would have no reason to restrict other people-countries from visiting theirs. there would be no axes of evil ''state'', no terrorists. nobody -country would have to defend her border, all airports will have no security check. there would no need to deploy suffiscated thumb print and iris-scan to the borderzone or airports, because there would no threat from anybody.
Give us peace: the world would not have nothing to look forward to any more. among many things we desire average normal guy would pick peace first if it is given freely.one third of the world population have died in wars or it's after effect, and countless billions of dollars have also wasted fighting war so that we can have peace. obviously, war brings us deaths, hunger and diseases, but keeps the population growth in check.
if we live in peace: the world population will definately explode in just few years.i mean who wants that billions of people without food,imagine half a billion chinese visiting the US a year if peace {in real sense of it} exist east and west. how could europe manager about 250 million hungry African/Asia coming freely to work or enjoy their social welfare?.
whenever we exchange war for peace: we can live to trust each other, the world will be much more friendly, even too friendly that there will be no need for secret security services. imagine a world without THE mozad, mi5/6, fbi, cia, aivd, kgb etc. they will be jobless, those guys who are experts in anything that has nothing to do with peace. we should pray harder {maybe} for peace so that we may know if it's worth all the lives and money wasted fighting for it
Posted by michaels at 02:35 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
The last four weeks had seen numerous air crashes around the globe, each highlighting the gruesome nature of airplane crash. while most people were trying to find answers to the Cypriot Helios accident, which had most if not all the passengers frozen to death before the crash. other crashes followed which forced many, again, to divert their attentions to the recent accidents.
it is still clearly the safest means of transportation, but maybe, because planes are not expected to crash at all. that whenever the news of even two sitter plane crash we think that's awful. somebody told me that this time of the year is time we have most of the crashes. that made to think a little bit harder, may be he is right.do most of the airplane accidents happen this time of the year?. i am beginning to think that we have something to add to that than just inevitable mishap. maybe, due to the fact we know they happen at this of the year and have not done enough to change that.
automobile industries are doing at least something whenever some serious error is found in car that could lead to {mass} death or injuries. there is control and informations avaliable to consumers about automobile in general. planes, they are left alone at the hands owners and or operators to decide what is SAFE and how to apply most of the rules.these accidents happening this time of the years proves at least that heavenly forces are not behind each and every one of the crashes.
No wonder, some European countries have started publishing informations about badly managed airlines and their operators. consumers should have had this privilege to know about how these operators manage their plane. it may be also time to ask a different question, not just hiding under the stastics that says that airplanes are SAFER than all form of transportation.
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I'm just taking a moment to thank everyone on the graphics team here at PROneTworks. These guys work hard doing the work for the site and its members. One person in particular that stands out is Loris, also known as Bosscamper. Loris does more behind the scenes than anyone, sometimes more than I do, and it is appreciated greatly.
So if you need some good, FREE graphics work for your site, don't ask us, hahaha, but if you want a great signature image or avater, then we can help you out.
Posted by xstream at 10:03 AM | Comments (0)
So with the latest release of what used to be Windows Codename "Longhorn", now known as Windows Vista, people got to oooooh and aaaah at graphical effects and all the other nice features. I too was very impressed at what the folks over in Redmond have put together for the initial beta release of the next generation of Windows operating system. Many people were saying that it's going to be OS X only better. I had limited experience with the Mac OS, only using it from time to time while at work since I could never buy a Mac as all the one's that I wanted were a lot more than I could afford on my limited college budget. Then one day this summer I was fortunate enough to receive an old Mac that was no longer needed by who I got it from, whom want's to remain unnamed. Since then, the world of the operating system has been turned upside-down.
So how did getting a really old Mac change everything? Well, I had the opportunity to test out both the 64 bit and 32 bit versions of Vista Beta 1. I was quite impressed as I said with everything that it has to offer. WinFS is very fast at searching through the small number of files that it currently allows you to index. On my nice computer, the GUI was fully active with everything running full speed ahead by default. Window animations, transparency, everything. I could even install all of the very common apps. that I use all the time (except NOD32 in the 64 bit version). There was basically nothing that I couldn't do with Beta 1. In the little experience that I had with Tiger, Vista really reminded me of it. The thing was, that Vista seemed to be a lot better, at least at the time. The MS engineers, despite only having done about a third of the final operating system. The only thing that Vista didn't really have that Tiger did was the Dashboard, but then there is Konfabulator (possibly spelled different) that you can install and use to have your own faked Dashboard on Windows.
Then I got my own Mac a few days ago. Since I've gotten it, the only thing it received was a memory upgrade (from 256MB to 640MB, going to 1GB later) and I also updated the operating system to OS X 10.4 Tiger since there wasn't anything on it to start with. The main purpose of it, at least at first was iTunes, and some other basic stuff. I mean, this thing is a 400MHz PPC processor, it can't be that fast, can it? Well, the PowerMacs are PowerMacs for a reason. I have the Dashboard open with about 7 or 8 widgets (well, running, not really active), iChat with a couple active conversations going on, iTunes with a streaming 256kbps audio playlist, and Safari, which is what I'm currently writing this in. I haven't seen an OS run so smoothly before. I have a 2.0GHz Intel P4 Dell with 1GB of RAM running Debian Sarge and it barely runs as fast as this does, and there are few differences between processes running, as I have a lot of the server related stuff running on the Mac to. It still can't keep up with what I was running Vista on, but that is expected as that computer is about 4 months old and cost a lot over quite a few months to actually get to its present state.
Feature-wise, I was pretty far off for Vista being the same as OS X. It doesn't have the F9-F11 functions of showing all open windows, all windows from a process, and show the desktop at the press of one button. Now all the Windows nuts are yelling saying they have alt-tab, well, I can use Apple-Tab and do the same thing. Plus I have the dock showing all running processes. Native support for nearly any type of archive file (Windows is ZIP and CAB only), SSH2 support, SSH Server, FTP and HTTP servers. Built-in drivers for who knows how many printers. I even have a very secure firewall. Then all my files are locked in an encrypted home folder. Now, Windows can get these things, but not built in, somewhat. The new firewall in Windows is getting closer to the standard *nix firewall, but it's still lacking some. You can have IIS for a server and Terminal Services for remote access, sure, but IIS isn't exactly the most secure of all servers, but there have been many improvements over the past year or so that made a huge leap in the right direction. Windows still doesn't have native ssh support though, and I find it to be a very useful thing, I even install OpenSSH for Windows just to have command-line ssh without needing PuTTY or another program. The one thing Windows does have is a very sophisticated encyrption tool, but it only works in the Professional version, where OS X has it for all. There are also a lot of really nice built in networking tools, which Windows is definitely lacking. The one things Microsoft does have that I haven't found yet for Apple, is Remote Desktop. It is here in OS X, but there are only clients for OS X. I can't connect to it from Windows, where MS has clients for older versions of Windows (back to 95 or NT) and also OS X. I haven't done to much experimenting yet, so it's entirely possible that I'm missing something, but Windows has one and only one thing that I can find better about it at this point.
Now, to quiet all the people yelling n00b at me, I'm very computer literate. I prefer doing a lot of stuff via command line/terminal/console. I'm running a Debian server, Windows Custom PC (XP and XP x64 currently) and now my old school PowerMac. I've used all versions of Windows from NT 4 to Vista Beta 1, minus a few early builds of "Longhorn" that I never got the opportunity to use. I've used more than enough Linux Distros, including Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1,2, & 4, SuSE 9 & 9.3, Mandrake 9, 10, 10.1 (Mandriva), Debian Woody & Sarge, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and also some minor stuff with Solaris. Plus I've used OS X 10.3 and 10.4 a lot too. So I know what I'm doing when it comes to most common operating systems as I've used plenty of them. I can fix nearly any Windows based or related problem, and currently get paid to do so here at school (Bucknell University) and since Windows is plagued with problems for the unsuspecting user, I have great job security. I will admit that I am still very new to Linux in general, although I can do a lot of things since I've been using it more and more since April of this year, mainly to learn more about it. I have even been running my own web server and ftp server since the fist semester of my sophomore year, although it's meant for minor stuff like web programming that I am also slowly learning. About the only thing I don't do is 'hack' my files so I can do fun tricks with XP. I have gotten the uxtheme.dll patch, but that is about the extent of my 'hacking'. I'm a Windows guy at heart, and always will be as I like what I can do with it, despite the $300 price tag for the operating system, plus another couple hundred dollars for all the software that I use. But I really have to hand it to Apple for this one, they have the superior OS at this point in time. Really, we'll all have to wait and see what the future Vista builds hold to tell who stays on top of the Operating System world as far as the 'best' OS feature-wise is concerned. Vista was only about a third of the way finished at the release of Beta 1, if there was even that much done in it, but it's still falling short of the bar that has been set, at least at this point in time, by Apple with OS X, Tiger.
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Well as I am sure many of you have noted there have been many changes in what was formely the Custom Builds Team. Paul handed off his administration position to me and Aaron (Kanuck) so that he could devote more time to the PR department. This came as quite a shock to me as I had only been bumped to moderator a week earlier. It was a lot to take in and Paul has been a great help and will be staying on as a team member. We are glad to have him as he has shown he is amazingly adept at physically modding cases and coming out with new creations.
We also have added Shawn (Freeagent) to our team. He is an avid overclocker and we hope that he together with Hugo and myself can put together a very detailed and indepth overclocking guide. We hope to make be able to provide some basic overclocking suggestions and guidelines while also going deeper for the hardcore overclockers out there.
We also have another project being picked back up by me. It will be a nice custom water cooling guide. Many people opt to buy a premade kit that's already design to go together with ease but as Hugo and I have shown of late, there are more options to help you bring those temps down and keep those clocks up. Hopefully Hugo can assist me in this project as he is completing his "ExtremeAngel" liquid cooling set-up.
Some of you may have also seen and participated in the Mock Computer Build Contest. That will be finishing up this week and the winner will be getting a sweet prize.
That's all from me for now.
Tune in next time. Same PRO time, same PRO channel. :)
Posted by e to the x at 12:45 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
If you are not sure what a livestrong bracelet is, I took this from their website:
As a tribute to Lance Armstrong's inspirational fight against cancer as well as his historic attempt at a sixth Tour de France win, the LAF and Nike launched the Wear Yellow LIVESTRONG™ campaign last month. Nike will donate $1 million to the Foundation and is leading efforts to raise an additional $5 million through the sale of yellow wristbands engraved with Lance's mantra, Live Strong. All proceeds will benefit LAF programs that help young people with cancer live strong.
This seems like such a great idea except there is one problem...
Now these bracelets are everywhere! No I am not just talking just about the yellow livestrong ones, the ones that started it all, I'm talking about all the rip-off ones. Right now you get a free one with a purchase at American Eagle, you can buy them in packs of 10 at Wal-mart (you think anything goes to a good cause here?) and you can get them in every gas station. Now what seemed like a great way to raise money has now became the next fashion statement. This reminds me of the WWJD bracelets. At the beginning it was a great idea...when you get in a situation and are in doubt just look down and think "what would Jesus do". Then all of a sudden everyone and their mom are wearing one and they dont even know who Jesus is! But hey, atleast we look cool, right?
I wish the marketing people would stop taking a good idea for a good cause and making it a fashion trend. Personally I have bought these bracelets before but I either throw them in a drawer or gave them to a sibling. Honestly, I would rather save the rubber and give you the same amount of money.
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Is it just me or does anyone else find it extremely ironic that you get SPAM email informing you of Microsoft SPAM tactics, and how wrong they are for spamming you with unwanted email?
For the past month now I've gotten several emails, sometimes more than one a day, from various institutions ranting and raving, maybe even foaming at the mouth, about how horrible Microsoft is for spamming us, the innocent public who didn't ask for these emails.
Well... how about take some of your own medicine and STOP SPAMMING US!!
It's seriously starting to get ridiculous. How can we get to a point where the spammers are complaining about someone else spamming us first. That makes about as much sense as Hank Williams at a P Diddy (wait, now just "Diddy" *cough* you're a moron *cough*) concert. What's worse is that the Microsoft spam emails at least gave you a way to get off their master list, and their email wasn't even remotely the solicitation that some companies produce in spam.
I just find it absolutely absurd that a company can form, and even become a legal entity based solely on the fact Microsoft spammed a few people. And then, to spread their message, to get hype up about their company, what do they do? Broadcast on TV? On Radio? On the Internet in general? Nope! They spam us.
Nice job there guys... get a life.
Posted by jcderrick at 09:40 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
I'm not really a history buff, but when this came up I was amazed by the genius behind this. It seems that the folks behind the Internet Archive had cooked up this time machine into the past for a while now. The general idea behind the site was that you could plug in the URL of the site you wish to see and it would take you to a cached code of a previous incarnation of the site. Now if the site had completely removed all the images then you would only see a barebone of the site, CSS + HTML, without the images.
To quote Bryan,
According to their Frequently Asked Questions, Alexa Internet had a large part in the creation of the archive (maybe that’s why it sucks).
Alexa Internet has been crawling the web since 1996, which has resulted in a massive archive. If you have a web site, and you would like to ensure that it is saved for posterity in the Internet Archive, and you’ve searched wayback and found no results, you can visit the Alexa’s “Webmasters” page at http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html#crawl_site. […] Sites are usually crawled within 24 hours and no more then 48. Right now there is a 6-12 month lag between the date a site is crawled and the date it appears in the Wayback Machine.
With this said, dang 6 months, no wonder Alexa has trashy ranks.
After doing a few searches, of PROnet, on the Wayback machine I found that it was still pretty cool. Here's some of our history.
Now if you managed to stick to reading my trashy writing this far, just and FYI in know way did I mean to discriminate towards Alexa.
Posted by Sid at 08:53 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
So...I guess just about everybody else has had a chance to get something typed up in thier blog. Now its time for me to input something.
I remember when the subject of starting the Pro-Blogs came up, I was excited about the new venture and was looking forward to having a space to lay down my thoughts, rants, opinions or whatever else may have popped into my cranium.
Finally....The Blogs are here !!!....This is sooooo exciting for me !!!
There's only one problem.
I can't think of anything to say.
Posted by Tw34k at 08:41 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Well, I guess I'll introduce myself a little here first. I'm Mark and I work on syndication and search optimization at PROnet. Just turned 20 this past June and am currently attending Bucknell University going for Chemical Engineering, although I'm not sure what I want to do with that degree yet. I work at school during classes and have also worked there the past to summers, although the work I do is mostly a joke as you sit there doing absolutely nothing. It's the basic help desk tech support job, although someone that still thinks an abacus is a computer could get a job there. So, that's basically me, in short anyways.
Now what I like to do is play with computers. Many people told me to be a Comp. Sci. major, and when I think about it, maybe I'll go to school for that someday too, but not now. I had a Dell, although it's the best running Dell I've seen since I've gotten around to 'fixing' it. In case people don't know, Dell's don't like to work right out of the box, you need to fix them to get them to work right, and this usually includes installing an operating system without all the Dell support apps and other stuff they like to include. I also have a custom built that is finally nearing completion, especially with the last shipment of stuff that just arrived today. The new moniter is absolutely stunning, by far the best computer related purchase I've ever made. The one problem is that there are 3 bad pixels around the outside edge. It's a Sceptre X9g Gamer, 19" LCD with 12ms response time. I like the fact that it has S-Video and RCA Video inputs, along with the standard DVI and VGA, so I'll be hooking up my xbox to it later.
I've also started making my own server setup on the previously mentioned Dell, running Debian Sarge. The whole *nix venture is something that I wanted to do since I got to PRO over a year ago now, but never had the resources to do so until recently. It's going to be my own little area to test out phpBB, learn PHP, and also become a regular *nix user. I currently haven't done much with it though as I don't have a modem in it, which means no internet, cause here where I live, we're stuck in the stone age yet with dial-up. DSL is available, but didn't get here until a couple months ago and has just started to go down in price. Needless to say, I'm still a Windows junky along with most of the known world. I plan to also set up a file mirror with it, hosting many of the popular *nix distrobutions that are out there, so stay tuned for more info on that. So far, all this has really been used for is php based stuff, and I also have a couple test forums set up on it. My next venture will be into FreeBSD and also Mac OS X. I really like the Mac OS, at least the latest one's, 9 was absolutely horrible. I've also always liked FreeBSD, although that's probably because of the nice little logo that they use. Really, the sky's the limit when it comes to computers, and the more you know in this day and age on them, the further you can go in nearly any field, so I figured I might as well learn as much as I can before getting into the real world, to give me the slight edge over the competition, cause it surely won't be my grades that are going to get me there.
Other than that, I'm really lost as to what to blog about. There isn't really anthing interesting going on in my life as this part of the world is about as interesting as watching grass grow or paint dry. I haven't done anything spectacular or out of the ordinary either. My life during the summer is about as dull as it gets really, and the internet and PRO are my only escapes from the world. The only thing of any real importance that I've done lately is create Google Sitemaps, so hopefully, they work out and get the places indexed more thoroughly. If anyone wants help making one for their site, just let me know and I'll help you out. As for me, I'm done with this entry into the life and times of imnuts.
Posted by imnuts at 08:09 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Well since everyboady else is, I should give a small explanation of who I am. My name is Corey Welsh, I am 14 (Almost 15) I live in British Columbia, Candad, in a small town. My username is coreyw2000.
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Well, this is my first blog entry. My name is Matt, I am 15 and going into 10th grade. I work part time at McDonalds and actually like the job, the people are awesome. But my true calling is computers, I spend at least 8hours on the computer a day.
That pretty much sums it all up for me.
-Matt
Posted by mfwit at 09:30 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Well, first time I have ever used a blog.
As you may know, my name is Richard. I live in Norwich, which is in the UK. I work with my family in a privately run Residential Care home, dealing with younger adults who have mental health needs. I also have other interests with another family business, building and maintaining computer systems, networking, upgrading etc, although this has been put on the back burner a little due to committments at the home.
My interests are football, motorsport, cars, computers, and the space programme. I enjoy playing golf when I get time.
Posted by SLD at 08:13 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Well I thought I would just add my little "hello world" like everyone else. The blogging team (the few of us) have put a lot of hard work into this. I hope to see the blog take off soon and have all sorts of personal blogs going. I think this will be a great way for our staff to express themselves and share
their opinions. Thanks to Corey for getting this blog started and Sid for taking over where Corey left off. Those two guys were our main guys on this project. Thanks to everyone else that helped with input it was greatly appreciated.
I hope the staff has fun and the members enjoy reading these. Hopefully some day we can open this up to our members also.
Posted by tweakmod at 08:46 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Hey everyone. As most of you know, my real name is Steve. I have just this past June graduated from Bucknell University with a degree in Civil Engineering. I spent most of my 4 years studying, rowing, sleeping and partying in my remaining time.
I started into computer support while at Bucknell at our Technology Desk. It was a great learning experience and unfortunately I realized a bit too late that I wanted to be involved with computers after school. I currently work with a Civil Engineering firm called Duffield Associates, Inc. I work out of the Philadelphia office and as a result recently moved to the Chestnut Hill area (I plan to move again when my lease comes up). I am your basic drone here in my office. I turn layers on, turn layers off and repeat this process until the arcitect, site developer and engineers all agree on what they want. Its really very draining despite sounding so easy because all you do is the same thing. My goal is to one day enter the world of IT either as a computer consultant, I'd even dream of starting my own business if I could.
Anyway thats enough about what I wish I could be doing. I currently spend my days on PRO, at work, or with my girlfriend with who I am happy to say I am about to celebrate a 6 month anniversary with, though we can't be together for it. I also own two cats who are always a challenge to control and are also tons of fun when they want to play.
Thats all form me right now.
Cheers and go PRO!
Posted by e to the x at 03:19 PM | Comments (0)
I would like to say thanks to the Blogging Team for all of their efforts on this matter. Without this team, we would not have the opportunity to be posting this right now. Thank you for all of your dedication and hard work on this area, as it is greatly appreciated!
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Welcome To My Blog!
I would like to introduce myself, Terry, to you so that you are able to understand who I am and what I am about!
I was born in Detroit, MI on September 11, 1986. I lived in Michigan until I was 12 years old, while moving ~8 times in the process, that I can remember. Since then, however, I have moved to GI, NY and have been staying there since (the longest I have ever stayed at 1 location). I attended Grand Island High School and graduated with a membership into the National Vocation Technical Honor Society. Since then, I started to attend ITT Technical Institute here in Getzville, NY to persue my career goal of becomming a processor engineer. During the course of my studies, I am also working a full-time job over at WNY Computing where I am a M&T Helpdesk Analyst (fancy title for Tech Support).
Other than all of the technical stuff about me, I am more of a layed back type of person that just likes to hang out with friends and play with computers. I am very involved with PRO-net as it is one of the things that I have always enjoyed participating in! Other than computers, I am involved in electrical design and manufacturing which includes but is not limited to installing Car Stereos, installing Home Audio, and at some times, I also participate with the installation of Electrical Wiring in households and businesses.
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Welcome to PRO-networks Blogs.
Well I wanted to also post and give a big thanks to the Blogging Team that got this project finally going and underway. I look forward to using this area of our site to relay additional information to our users through has what become a very popular form of posting information on the web; blogging.
Furthermore, this new Blog area gives our staff the chance to visit major events in the field and post about their experiences without ever needing to even enter the forums at our site.
So I hope you'll all enjoy this new area of our site; where you'll get a more personal feel for what goes on behind the scenes at PRO-networks. Along with myself (Chairman), our CEO, Officers, Vice Officers, and other staff will be posting regularly with their own thoughts and feelings about various subjects.
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Hi, This would be the first incarnation of Pro-neTwork's 'Blog.' What you see is, the some what, outcome of much work by a small group people; Corey Welsh, Mark Dietz, George Tzivelekis, Larry Richman, and my 'Supervisor,' Paul Gunnels. Through those dedicated staffers brainstorming we came up with this elgent 'transperant-fluid' design.
Which Brings us to this...
With all of that said, welcome to Pro-neTwork's 'Blog.' If you look around you will notice that the Blog is cleverly mocking the main site and forum, speacialy the header and menu. Contained inside you will find an appropriately named 'Archives' section, that includes all the junk I write, with all the great articals the other write too!
Well, that's about it. I hope you enjoy what ever is to come. Please leave some comments below about your love and/or hatred of us. Enjoy!
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