There are 100 days in a year? No? Ah, there are 365 days in a year. So $100/year works out to be about $.27/day or $ 1.92/week or $8.33/month.
For people who are only interested in one piece of iTools, it's not worth it. If they're done well I think the antivirus and backup parts are the best value. An antivirus subscription alone costs $20/year.
A lot of/.ers bitch about ads, well here's a web host and email provider which is ad free. The email is accessible by POP, IMAP or their pretty decend webmail interface. The IMAP in particular is cool.
It's important that.Mac be run better than iTools if it's going to be successful. The performance of iDisk must be better (the last client upgrade definitely helped though), the mac.com spam blocking must be removed or made configurable, and the bandwidth/usage caps on homepage.mac.com web sites has to be removed or replaced with a much higher (and more sensible) limit.
For those who are saying this or that can be had for free elsewhere, I will remind you that unlike OSS, when it comes to online services you get what you pay for.
Right there, next to where it says "Posted by pudge?" The one with the Alt text that says "It's funny. Laugh." Maybe you all have Mozilla set to only accept images from the originating server out of some obsessive need to avoid advertisements.
That can be a post next weekend, Ads Make Your Smarter. A study has found that people who are able to ignore online ads have more developed brains than those who need to use software and settings to remove ads from web pages.;-)
Counting Hotmail (or Messenger) users is not artificially inflating the numbers. Those users have Passport accounts, that's all that matters. That means if a site they shop at asks them to enter a Passport username/password, they can. Granted, the site may have to explain that their "Hotmail" username/password will work but that's very minor compared to having to go create a Passport account.
They are going to begin collecting a $5/month Royalty Administration Fee from all stations, including personal stations which have previously been free. They are collecting it regardless of broadcaster's location or broadcast content (news, talk, non-label acts). The fee is for more than just royalty payments and the mention a suggestion from SoundExchange to indie artists to get registered to collect royalties.
WINNT-L: Windows NT/2000 Discussion List is a good place to ask questions and look for answers. Their archive is online but you have to be subscribed to search it. I think they host some other good mailing lists but I'm only subscribed to this one.
If they had done something serious they *would have* been arrested. I don't think there was any need to take their computers, the cable modems themselves would be the evidence. Taking all the computers is standard way law enforcement acts as judge and jury for computer-related crimes. Do you think any of those people will get their computers back anytime soon, regardless of whether they're prosecuted or not?
I don't think they can have a significant impact anyway. The labels are large organizations but are tiny compared to the masses of people using P2P software.
Once you've downloaded the garbage file, the damage is already done, you've wasted your time and bandwidth. Besides, such a site would have to get its checksums from the general public so nothing would prevent RIAA agents from uploading checksums of their choice for their members' product. You could try to create a community so checksum uploaders had a reputation and only those with good reputations would have their checksums accepted but that would dramatically slow down the process and still leave it imperfect. Also, you'd need a different checksum for every different encoding level (128K, 160K 192K, etc.) and you'd need a tailor-made client which would only check the audio portion of the file or every modification of the ID3 tags would invalidate the checksum.
I've seen articles in some about tools for managing IM. Mostly they focus on monitoring which, as others are pointing out, is more feasible than blocking outright. You can't take such articles at face value since they're mostly just regurgitating PR fluff but they give you an idea of what's out there.
That's essentially what the "make available offline" does. It doesn't help you if a file on the server was created June 11, Mr. X changes an offline copy on June 12 and Mr. Y changes the online copy June 13. If Mr. X doesn't sync his cached copy before Mr. Y makes his changes, you've got two copies of the same file both with unique changes. No script or program can tell you how to merge all the changes into one document, not without making lots of assumptions about the data.
I think Win2k's offline files option is the way to go but regardless of the method used if you want multiple people to have access to the data, how do you reconcile multiple changes while one or more copy is offline?
Yes I do. Data integrity is more important than network performance and in a smallish office everyone is on a 100Mbit switch and the server can have 2 100Mbit cards connected.
If someone had gigs of data that only they used I'd set up a separate backup system just for them. In fact, I did.
If you're talking about the special Desktop shortcut, you just right-click it and click Properties to set its target. By default it's C:\My Documents\ for Win9x and C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\ for Win2k and XP. I always set it to point to a My Documents folder on a mapped network drive but I've never tried it with just a UNC path \\server\username\My Documents\.
Horror stories about RAID 5? Tons of places rely on them for data storage. We do. Are you talking about software or hardware RAID? I don't have any experience with software RAID 5 but I'd be more skittish about that. Software RAID 1 doesn't frighten me as much 'cause it's so much more simple.
NT4 doesn't have the "make available offline" option, only Win2k and XP. You need to give each user their own drive or folder and only make that available offline or else you have a ton of sychonization plus the headache of figuring out which version of a document 2 people modified while out of sync to keep.
We use it for our people. It's awesome, it lets us set up the laptop people just like the desktops, with Word and other programs set to save to their home drive. The only hassle is the time it takes to synchronize at logon and logoff which usually isn't much time at all.
Now I really have to question your claim that "your" company has had an end-to-end MPEG4 system for a year. First you don't name the company and just say "search Google." Now you claim that Apple has come into MPEG4 late which just isn't so. The MPEG-4 file format is based on QuickTime's file format which was decided at least 3 years ago.
"The file format is designed to be independent of any particular delivery protocol while enabling efficient support for delivery in general. The design is based on the QuickTime® format from Apple Computer Inc."
I hardly consider letting a site know which site a link to them was on as "spyware." If you're that paranoid, copy 'n paste.
And Referer *does* have a use, particularly within a site itself. If you're writing a CGI and you want to return the user back to the page they came from, you use the Referer URL to Redirect them back. Very simple, very easy.
"We don't take kindly to your kind here, acting all courteous and sensible and all. Moderators, your mod points assigned to Sheetrock will be returned to you but we've got your names and we'll be keeping our eyes on you."
There aren't very many movie theaters in the U.S. in a place where you would have to pay for parking, tho' if the *matinee* is $7.50, that might be one of them. Around here that's the evening price, matinee price is $5.
Also if you're an IT guy like me (and I think you are), you've got sick time/vacation time out the wazoo and you're never going to use it all up on real vacations. So, you make a it a long weekend every once in a while. We have a limit on how much vacation we can carry over from year to year so once you hit the max you've got to take the rest off before Dec. 31 or it disappears.
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There are 100 days in a year? No? Ah, there are 365 days in a year. So $100/year works out to be about $.27/day or $ 1.92/week or $8.33/month.
/.ers bitch about ads, well here's a web host and email provider which is ad free. The email is accessible by POP, IMAP or their pretty decend webmail interface. The IMAP in particular is cool.
.Mac be run better than iTools if it's going to be successful. The performance of iDisk must be better (the last client upgrade definitely helped though), the mac.com spam blocking must be removed or made configurable, and the bandwidth/usage caps on homepage.mac.com web sites has to be removed or replaced with a much higher (and more sensible) limit.
For people who are only interested in one piece of iTools, it's not worth it. If they're done well I think the antivirus and backup parts are the best value. An antivirus subscription alone costs $20/year.
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For those who are saying this or that can be had for free elsewhere, I will remind you that unlike OSS, when it comes to online services you get what you pay for.
Right there, next to where it says "Posted by pudge?" The one with the Alt text that says "It's funny. Laugh." Maybe you all have Mozilla set to only accept images from the originating server out of some obsessive need to avoid advertisements.
;-)
That can be a post next weekend, Ads Make Your Smarter. A study has found that people who are able to ignore online ads have more developed brains than those who need to use software and settings to remove ads from web pages.
Counting Hotmail (or Messenger) users is not artificially inflating the numbers. Those users have Passport accounts, that's all that matters. That means if a site they shop at asks them to enter a Passport username/password, they can. Granted, the site may have to explain that their "Hotmail" username/password will work but that's very minor compared to having to go create a Passport account.
"They are medium sized relaxed dogs, but need to go for a quick run once a day or so."
You're suggesting a "common geek" go for a quick run on a daily basis? Only if the greyhound comes with a Segway!
They are going to begin collecting a $5/month Royalty Administration Fee from all stations, including personal stations which have previously been free. They are collecting it regardless of broadcaster's location or broadcast content (news, talk, non-label acts). The fee is for more than just royalty payments and the mention a suggestion from SoundExchange to indie artists to get registered to collect royalties.
WINNT-L: Windows NT/2000 Discussion List is a good place to ask questions and look for answers. Their archive is online but you have to be subscribed to search it. I think they host some other good mailing lists but I'm only subscribed to this one.
If they had done something serious they *would have* been arrested. I don't think there was any need to take their computers, the cable modems themselves would be the evidence. Taking all the computers is standard way law enforcement acts as judge and jury for computer-related crimes. Do you think any of those people will get their computers back anytime soon, regardless of whether they're prosecuted or not?
I don't think they can have a significant impact anyway. The labels are large organizations but are tiny compared to the masses of people using P2P software.
Once you've downloaded the garbage file, the damage is already done, you've wasted your time and bandwidth. Besides, such a site would have to get its checksums from the general public so nothing would prevent RIAA agents from uploading checksums of their choice for their members' product. You could try to create a community so checksum uploaders had a reputation and only those with good reputations would have their checksums accepted but that would dramatically slow down the process and still leave it imperfect. Also, you'd need a different checksum for every different encoding level (128K, 160K 192K, etc.) and you'd need a tailor-made client which would only check the audio portion of the file or every modification of the ID3 tags would invalidate the checksum.
Here are a few
Making IM More Secure
New Tool Helps Secure IM, P2P
FaceTime Curbs IM
That's essentially what the "make available offline" does. It doesn't help you if a file on the server was created June 11, Mr. X changes an offline copy on June 12 and Mr. Y changes the online copy June 13. If Mr. X doesn't sync his cached copy before Mr. Y makes his changes, you've got two copies of the same file both with unique changes. No script or program can tell you how to merge all the changes into one document, not without making lots of assumptions about the data.
I think Win2k's offline files option is the way to go but regardless of the method used if you want multiple people to have access to the data, how do you reconcile multiple changes while one or more copy is offline?
My preferred Windows backup software is Ultrabac.
Yes I do. Data integrity is more important than network performance and in a smallish office everyone is on a 100Mbit switch and the server can have 2 100Mbit cards connected.
If someone had gigs of data that only they used I'd set up a separate backup system just for them. In fact, I did.
If you're talking about the special Desktop shortcut, you just right-click it and click Properties to set its target. By default it's C:\My Documents\ for Win9x and C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\ for Win2k and XP. I always set it to point to a My Documents folder on a mapped network drive but I've never tried it with just a UNC path \\server\username\My Documents\.
Horror stories about RAID 5? Tons of places rely on them for data storage. We do. Are you talking about software or hardware RAID? I don't have any experience with software RAID 5 but I'd be more skittish about that. Software RAID 1 doesn't frighten me as much 'cause it's so much more simple.
NT4 doesn't have the "make available offline" option, only Win2k and XP. You need to give each user their own drive or folder and only make that available offline or else you have a ton of sychonization plus the headache of figuring out which version of a document 2 people modified while out of sync to keep.
We use it for our people. It's awesome, it lets us set up the laptop people just like the desktops, with Word and other programs set to save to their home drive. The only hassle is the time it takes to synchronize at logon and logoff which usually isn't much time at all.
According to everymac.com, beige g3s don't have a Rage Pro card unless they were produced after May 1998. Before then they have a Rage II+.
Now I really have to question your claim that "your" company has had an end-to-end MPEG4 system for a year. First you don't name the company and just say "search Google." Now you claim that Apple has come into MPEG4 late which just isn't so. The MPEG-4 file format is based on QuickTime's file format which was decided at least 3 years ago.
MPEG-4 Overview from the MPEG working group"The file format is designed to be independent of any particular delivery protocol while enabling efficient support for delivery in general. The design is based on the QuickTime® format from Apple Computer Inc."
Wired has all their issues online. Kid06 is only mentioned in one article, from May 2002.
I hardly consider letting a site know which site a link to them was on as "spyware." If you're that paranoid, copy 'n paste.
And Referer *does* have a use, particularly within a site itself. If you're writing a CGI and you want to return the user back to the page they came from, you use the Referer URL to Redirect them back. Very simple, very easy.
"We don't take kindly to your kind here, acting all courteous and sensible and all. Moderators, your mod points assigned to Sheetrock will be returned to you but we've got your names and we'll be keeping our eyes on you."
In this state, dwarfing is illegal, even if the dwarf signs a release.
There aren't very many movie theaters in the U.S. in a place where you would have to pay for parking, tho' if the *matinee* is $7.50, that might be one of them. Around here that's the evening price, matinee price is $5.
Also if you're an IT guy like me (and I think you are), you've got sick time/vacation time out the wazoo and you're never going to use it all up on real vacations. So, you make a it a long weekend every once in a while. We have a limit on how much vacation we can carry over from year to year so once you hit the max you've got to take the rest off before Dec. 31 or it disappears.
Duncan Lawie wrote the review, not Timmy. The editors do enough stupid stuff on their own, I hate it when they get blamed for what others write.
The $3889.00 was for 3 disks, not 4.