If you've got users that won't move off Outlook, try installing MailScanner on your email server and switching on the function that converts all HTML emails to text. I know I'm sorely tempted. I wonder if I could set it up to just do that to the ones sent to me?
A friend at work said that he couldn't stop IE from going to a range of search pages with pop-ups when he started it. He'd run Adaware and still couldn't get rid of the problem. He went away with a USB flash device containing the latest Mozilla installer.
I'm going to have to pull a weekend at work soon installing a new version of our database client on every PC. I'm going to put Mozilla on all the machines at the same time. Won't make it the default or anything, but if anyone starts to have problems with IE, my first solution will be to switch to Mozilla. I've had enough of this crap.
Hmm, what I posted earlier wasn't entirely correct. Turns out that our anti-virus portion of MailScanner had gotten knocked-off during the last sendmail update. MailScanner will happily block an attachment for more than one reason, and by default it no longer sends an automated response if it detects a virus.
This still means that attachments rejected in the hours before the virus pattern arrives will get a bounce message, but they'll dry up as soon as the pattern's in place. Nicer.
We've discovered that the anti-virus engine that supposed to be scanning email isn't working properly. Suspect file extensions sill cause the attachment to be nuked, but I haven't been able to cause an alert with either a zipped virus or, say, a file with a.xls extension.
Other than that, the servers are handling it better than the staff. I had to take my phone off the hook to get some work done investigating the problem on the server.
Mail Scanner has the option to not send bounce messages if the virus is in a particular list. However, it also has the option to strip any attachments that fall into the.exe,.pif,.scr, etc list of dangerous extensions without bothering to check if there's a virus in there or not -- which is very handy when a new one beats the patterns to your server. In this case the scanner does not know if the From: line is likely faked or not and must send a message indicating that the email has not been passed on complete, so the sender knows they have to do something about it.
Trust me, given the number of automated responses that go to invalid addresses and bounce back on the admins, we wouldn't leave it on if there wasn't some value in it.
The devices will still allow you to cheat online, you just have to get your codes from somewhere else. And if there's one thing that holds true on the Internet it's that there are a heck of a lot of "somewhere else"s.
I recently tripped over a very interesting 7z and RAR compatible archiving package that also does HEAPS of other formats: IZArc. It's free. I'm going to test it up against 7zip some time soon. I found it because I needed to unarc something.
I had an opportunity to play with a Zodiac yesterday, including the new Atari Retro pack tweaked for the Zodiac. It is a very impressive device, both as a PDA and a games machine. Basically it's a damn good generic peice of pocket-sized computing hardware.
Shame I already have a PDA that I don't use. I have room for my wallet/keys (one thing), plus one other device and it just has to be my mobile phone. While I clip my iPod onto my belt, that's only for going to and from work -- not for every moment of the day carrying. If it's not a mobile phone it's going to spend most of its time gathering dust in my house.
I more or less stopped wearing a watch until I bought my N-Gage. When I'm wearing jeans, I'd rather not be pulling it out of my (tight) pocket all the time just to check the time, so I've started wearing my Casio GPS watch on the weekends again.
I have one of the Casio GPS watches and it does rock. It's very impressive even before you explain that it's a GPS. Only problem I've found is that I need to take it off for best reception. (?!)
Since the site is only spitting up "Sorry can't allow you access today" now, I have to assume you're referring to an old 8cm player that played full-sized discs with them hanging out the side. I always wanted one of them, but I'll have to make do with my Imation RipGo! which, while it won't play 12cm discs, is also a USB CD burner and MP3 player...
all the digital cameras out there record directly to JPEG... no way to upgrade them to JPEG2000.
If a Kodak DC265 can have MAME installed, I'm sure that many of the cameras out there now can be upgraded to JPEG2000 with a BIOS upgrade or a 3rd-party plug-in.
JPEG2000 will become standard the moment IE will properly display one via the standard img tag, rather than that embed or object crap.
Except for the case where you use JPEG2000 to store on your camera either more images of the same visual quality or the same number of images of images of a higher quality than JPEG can manage, then deliver them to your print shop as TIFFs.
Except that all my experience has shown that PNGs are larger than GIFs for the same image (same colour depth, dithering, etc), especially for small iamges. I would have switched to PNG by now if it wasn't consistantly a bigger file.
The Microsoft product is as you describe; ie; Crap. Well, fine if you can get it working and don't want to use BT for anything else, but mine only worked with one of three PCs I tried to use it with and it's completely blocked me from being able to connect to my N-Gage via BT on that PC.
I stopped reading the "article" when they failed to mention a single serious problem with the MS BT desktop, save for the "you can't change the BIOS" issue (which is true BTW, you'll need a PS/2 or USB keyboard to change the BIOS, or reconnect the keyboard and mouse if something goes wrong).
The Logitech set, however, includes a much more flexible transceiver and looks like it plays much better with other devices. I think they've already released one upgrade to their BT stack.
If I want to load RSS, I'll use an RSS reader for my phone. When I bought Opera for my N-Gage, I just switched to the "high volume" billing rate for GPRS and I switched Slashdot into the low bandwidth mode. If I want news, I view News.Google's text page -- Opera renders it quite well.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, a range of search engines. He knows how to set the default homepage, but it wasn't sticking.
If you've got users that won't move off Outlook, try installing MailScanner on your email server and switching on the function that converts all HTML emails to text. I know I'm sorely tempted. I wonder if I could set it up to just do that to the ones sent to me?
I'm going to have to pull a weekend at work soon installing a new version of our database client on every PC. I'm going to put Mozilla on all the machines at the same time. Won't make it the default or anything, but if anyone starts to have problems with IE, my first solution will be to switch to Mozilla. I've had enough of this crap.
This still means that attachments rejected in the hours before the virus pattern arrives will get a bounce message, but they'll dry up as soon as the pattern's in place. Nicer.
Other than that, the servers are handling it better than the staff. I had to take my phone off the hook to get some work done investigating the problem on the server.
Trust me, given the number of automated responses that go to invalid addresses and bounce back on the admins, we wouldn't leave it on if there wasn't some value in it.
The devices will still allow you to cheat online, you just have to get your codes from somewhere else. And if there's one thing that holds true on the Internet it's that there are a heck of a lot of "somewhere else"s.
I recently tripped over a very interesting 7z and RAR compatible archiving package that also does HEAPS of other formats: IZArc. It's free. I'm going to test it up against 7zip some time soon. I found it because I needed to unarc something.
Someone so needs to send him a free copy of Hacking the Xbox.
Shame I already have a PDA that I don't use. I have room for my wallet/keys (one thing), plus one other device and it just has to be my mobile phone. While I clip my iPod onto my belt, that's only for going to and from work -- not for every moment of the day carrying. If it's not a mobile phone it's going to spend most of its time gathering dust in my house.
I more or less stopped wearing a watch until I bought my N-Gage. When I'm wearing jeans, I'd rather not be pulling it out of my (tight) pocket all the time just to check the time, so I've started wearing my Casio GPS watch on the weekends again.
Did demonstrate how it could be used to cheat in exams though (hint, you can load photos ONTO it).
Yeah, and what's wrong with the Logitech offering?
I have one of the Casio GPS watches and it does rock. It's very impressive even before you explain that it's a GPS. Only problem I've found is that I need to take it off for best reception. (?!)
Since the site is only spitting up "Sorry can't allow you access today" now, I have to assume you're referring to an old 8cm player that played full-sized discs with them hanging out the side. I always wanted one of them, but I'll have to make do with my Imation RipGo! which, while it won't play 12cm discs, is also a USB CD burner and MP3 player...
Thanks, will do.
I use Ulead Smartsaver Pro 3.0.
JPEG2000 will become standard the moment IE will properly display one via the standard img tag, rather than that embed or object crap.
Except for the case where you use JPEG2000 to store on your camera either more images of the same visual quality or the same number of images of images of a higher quality than JPEG can manage, then deliver them to your print shop as TIFFs.
Except that all my experience has shown that PNGs are larger than GIFs for the same image (same colour depth, dithering, etc), especially for small iamges. I would have switched to PNG by now if it wasn't consistantly a bigger file.
I stopped reading the "article" when they failed to mention a single serious problem with the MS BT desktop, save for the "you can't change the BIOS" issue (which is true BTW, you'll need a PS/2 or USB keyboard to change the BIOS, or reconnect the keyboard and mouse if something goes wrong).
The Logitech set, however, includes a much more flexible transceiver and looks like it plays much better with other devices. I think they've already released one upgrade to their BT stack.
If I want to load RSS, I'll use an RSS reader for my phone. When I bought Opera for my N-Gage, I just switched to the "high volume" billing rate for GPRS and I switched Slashdot into the low bandwidth mode. If I want news, I view News.Google's text page -- Opera renders it quite well.
USB 2.0 is plenty fast enough, you're compairing FireWire to USB1.1.