I agree that a netbook / SFF laptop would be nice upgrade to the physical books used today, but one point you made raised a question: Why do you need Defender or AVG on a non-Windows netbook?
I would assume all these netbooks run Linux rather than Windows. It would be silly to put that many Windows machines out there just waiting to be infected, which is exactly what they would be when the kids got hold of them.
Well said. I know when I get home my life is complicated and busy enough supporting my work activities. I just want the stuff to work with as little pain as possible. I've begun virtualizing everything to that end and now do all my work on a MBP.
I also find that my patience with learning new Windows-only programming languages and software has evaporated. I've been on the upgrade treadmill for more years than I like to admit. New software really needs to be cross-platform to pique my interest.
But my enthusiasm with Linux hasn't died... I run RHEL 3 and 5 and Fedora 8 at work and am excited -- actually excited -- about Fedora 11's release. And yes everything just works the vast majority of the time. Maybe that's why I am still interested in Linux?
You are aware that Verizon owns a significant landline network? Our colocation facility is a Verizon facility for Pete's sake. They have access to all the info that every other landline company has. Hell in a lot of cases it's their physical line it's running through.
Calling from a pay phone at a Pizza Hut is different than calling from the manager's office. Likewise different numbers, although at the same physical location, are labeled differently to the phone company (yes there are times when that distinction is not properly registered but those tend to be exceptions). Are you aware that alarm companies tag lines differently?
As for spoofing... it's similar to email spoofing. Anyone who wants to know where the call really came from can get that info. Just because it fools your $29 Wal-Mart Caller ID unit doesn't mean much. It would have been trivial to establish that these calls were from a phone registered to police.
Verizon was negligent to act in this manner. They should be thrilled no one died or was seriously injured.
The day a major phone carrier can't tell that a call requesting assistance is coming from an officer's phone, they need to shut their doors and go home.
This is pretty simple stuff; credit card companies and banks do this all the time, even private companies use phone lookup services. Where does that info come from? The telcos. It's really simple.
I replaced my Treo 650 with a $300 16GB iPod Touch. I get VNC, RPC, telnet, SSH, and a *bunch* of apps games etc. I do voice recordings and can send and receive multimedia emails. I can sync documents to it. I have downloaded all levels of zoom for all maps covering from Vero Beach to Miami, FL. I can do everything with it that my Treo could and much much more.
I've heard of putting passwords in escrow, but wow that's dangerous stuff. There are many problems with this scenario:
The safeties are off with my userid/password and I'd hate to think of the damage that could be caused by a newbie sitting down and hacking using my account.
You can easily get into a situation where something is done improperly and you are implicated.
How in the hell do you manage security with shared info? I just can't get over that. In my world sharing passwords at my level is grounds for termination.
Of course, your HR manager and direct manager may be more technically brilliant than the average bear, but even then... wow.
Aren't the MacBook Pro's core duos? I know mine is and it's approx 2 years old (15" 2.4). I wouldn't think they would deny an upgrade for such a recent machine.
Incidentally, I skipped 10.5 but plan to go with 10.6 after several months of public exposure unless feedback shows it's not worth the upgrade. Like any major upgrade there will be bugs and I'm all too happy to let others sort them out first. Although I'm happy with 10.4, I'm looking forward to a few tweaks from Snow Leopard. There just wasn't enough for me in 10.5 to justify the upgrade.
An easy way to trim much additional space -- at least from 10.4.x -- is by using Monolingual to strip out other languages and support for other architectures. You can save many many GB this way.
I'd be a bit careful about stripping the architectures unless you're sure you know what you're doing though.
Actually I couldn't do half of what I do with only a GUI -- a great deal of what I do is scripted rather than clicky-clicky.
Some of us do a bit more than "play" with Linux, it's the cornerstone of our business. Those scripts enable communication from various servers, control the replication and offsite backup processes, warn us of stuck print jobs, transform print jobs to PDF's (and place them in user folders), send email alerts, import MySQL data, update SQL Server-based databases, communicate with various trading partners, provide feedback throughout the day to our Executive team, send mass faxes to our customers (impositioning "opt out" boilerplate text), allow users to unlock sessions, manage updates across server groups and more. Yes you could do some of this with custom apps -- and I write my share of those too -- but my scripts tend to be smaller, faster and easier to maintain, especially on our equipment.
I've been out of school quite a long time, and what really counts is productivity, regardless of the tools you choose to use. If your GUI tools work best for you then great. I'll use scripting -- SSH from my laptop, practically any server or even my iPod Touch -- thank you, with no need to launch Visual Studio or other such bloated IDE for most tasks.
Take the money if it's anything reasonable. You then have some resources to enable you to work on things that make you feel more free. But seriously, take the money while the offer is there.
Not obvious enough to our users. You can't imagine the number of complaints we've had about this -- and the default format of files is Office 2007-only.
Several checklist items were added to our setup routines just to accommodate Office 2007, and retraining in many areas was needed.
Formulas and macros developed in Excel aren't the same, so one dept can't give one set of instructions to other depts not yet moved to Office 2007. In these financial times spending several hundred a pop seems more than an expensive transition, it seems a waste of resources.
Oh, yeah, it's bigger and slower too. Ugh. Where's the win in this situation again?
When I moved to TN, I saw firsthand blacks were called "boy" in public. I saw many, relegated to warehouse-type jobs, that had no hope to reach a higher place or status. The state ranks like 48th in education and they are spending money for religious education in schools instead of the basics. In TN I watched a late-term pregnant woman wash exterior windows of an office while her supervisor did nothing.
In some places although slavery is gone, the ability of workers to become more than laborers is severely limited. It's almost as if they can have no hope. While I may be out of there (hopefully soon) many others don't have my financial resources and support and are stuck in those places. Never having known better they languish and it saddens me to see their predicament. Would it be more cruel if they knew things were better elsewhere, or ignorant? It's not my place to dash their hopes.
You've just described Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and parts of the Carolinas.
Unfortunate but true.
I made the mistake of moving to Tennessee and have kicked myself repeatedly for it. If someone would pay me close to what I owe on this house, I would be gone immediately. Even though I would lose $15k on the deal I would consider it a bargain to leave that backwoods place.
Written from beautiful south Florida. Down here for a bit and I don't want to go back.
I am extremely disappointed, to say the least. These scum have caused huge amounts of trouble to innocent victims. The **AA's are just bullies.
I have strong feelings on this issue -- I really don't care what else Obama does, this makes a future vote for him impossible.
Prior art may supposedly be equal to defense, yet it's not the same for many reasons. A clueless PTO and large legal fees to fight a patent once it's granted make it relatively easy to fight off patent challenges while you rake in money in the meantime.
A "good ideas" site won't protect anything from being patented, the only thing that stops a patent from being granted is another patent, and sometimes by changing words around that isn't even enough.
Unfortunately the patent system is hopelessly broken.
Maybe they should have a way of turning this on or off. I happen to really like the bouncy icon in OSX as I'm often AFK when messages pop up (I tend to leave machines on 24hrs).
I've missed many Windows messages because they get buried, don't have an icon in the taskbar, or popup on top of something else (stealing focus)* while I'm typing and get dismissed unintentionally (I type 70+wpm and don't always look at the screen, usually I'm transcribing my notes).
Beta is a test phase before rolling your RC and then retail. You don't add features that late in the game, you fix bugs. You fork features into the next release, service pack etc.
Sounds like he didn't have much of a choice. If it was in fact forced cooperation, wouldn't that fact have had precedence over everything else? Especially to tell him now that he cooperated a little he has to testify against himself (by providing the decryption key).
Don't get me wrong, child pron is indefensible and I personally feel he should be put in jail, but prosecuting him in this way opens up a kind of a slippery slope and I'd hate to see a precedent set. I worry about what could become of that.
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I agree that a netbook / SFF laptop would be nice upgrade to the physical books used today, but one point you made raised a question: Why do you need Defender or AVG on a non-Windows netbook?
I would assume all these netbooks run Linux rather than Windows. It would be silly to put that many Windows machines out there just waiting to be infected, which is exactly what they would be when the kids got hold of them.
No problem here. Firefox 3.0.10 under OSX 10.4.11.
Also fine with Firefox 3.0.10 under Windows XP SP3.
I suspect one of your addons is what's giving you the problem.
Well said. I know when I get home my life is complicated and busy enough supporting my work activities. I just want the stuff to work with as little pain as possible. I've begun virtualizing everything to that end and now do all my work on a MBP.
I also find that my patience with learning new Windows-only programming languages and software has evaporated. I've been on the upgrade treadmill for more years than I like to admit. New software really needs to be cross-platform to pique my interest.
But my enthusiasm with Linux hasn't died... I run RHEL 3 and 5 and Fedora 8 at work and am excited -- actually excited -- about Fedora 11's release. And yes everything just works the vast majority of the time. Maybe that's why I am still interested in Linux?
You are aware that Verizon owns a significant landline network? Our colocation facility is a Verizon facility for Pete's sake. They have access to all the info that every other landline company has. Hell in a lot of cases it's their physical line it's running through.
Calling from a pay phone at a Pizza Hut is different than calling from the manager's office. Likewise different numbers, although at the same physical location, are labeled differently to the phone company (yes there are times when that distinction is not properly registered but those tend to be exceptions). Are you aware that alarm companies tag lines differently?
As for spoofing... it's similar to email spoofing. Anyone who wants to know where the call really came from can get that info. Just because it fools your $29 Wal-Mart Caller ID unit doesn't mean much. It would have been trivial to establish that these calls were from a phone registered to police.
Verizon was negligent to act in this manner. They should be thrilled no one died or was seriously injured.
The day a major phone carrier can't tell that a call requesting assistance is coming from an officer's phone, they need to shut their doors and go home.
This is pretty simple stuff; credit card companies and banks do this all the time, even private companies use phone lookup services. Where does that info come from? The telcos. It's really simple.
I replaced my Treo 650 with a $300 16GB iPod Touch. I get VNC, RPC, telnet, SSH, and a *bunch* of apps games etc. I do voice recordings and can send and receive multimedia emails. I can sync documents to it. I have downloaded all levels of zoom for all maps covering from Vero Beach to Miami, FL. I can do everything with it that my Treo could and much much more.
Oh, yeah, it plays music too.
Of course, your HR manager and direct manager may be more technically brilliant than the average bear, but even then... wow.
In my area Panera is too crowded. McDonald's is crowded also. You have to go somewhere else for some room.
Aren't the MacBook Pro's core duos? I know mine is and it's approx 2 years old (15" 2.4). I wouldn't think they would deny an upgrade for such a recent machine.
Incidentally, I skipped 10.5 but plan to go with 10.6 after several months of public exposure unless feedback shows it's not worth the upgrade. Like any major upgrade there will be bugs and I'm all too happy to let others sort them out first. Although I'm happy with 10.4, I'm looking forward to a few tweaks from Snow Leopard. There just wasn't enough for me in 10.5 to justify the upgrade.
An easy way to trim much additional space -- at least from 10.4.x -- is by using Monolingual to strip out other languages and support for other architectures. You can save many many GB this way.
I'd be a bit careful about stripping the architectures unless you're sure you know what you're doing though.
Methinks you want the "taskset" command. Yes it works very well, at least on RHEL.
Actually I couldn't do half of what I do with only a GUI -- a great deal of what I do is scripted rather than clicky-clicky.
Some of us do a bit more than "play" with Linux, it's the cornerstone of our business. Those scripts enable communication from various servers, control the replication and offsite backup processes, warn us of stuck print jobs, transform print jobs to PDF's (and place them in user folders), send email alerts, import MySQL data, update SQL Server-based databases, communicate with various trading partners, provide feedback throughout the day to our Executive team, send mass faxes to our customers (impositioning "opt out" boilerplate text), allow users to unlock sessions, manage updates across server groups and more. Yes you could do some of this with custom apps -- and I write my share of those too -- but my scripts tend to be smaller, faster and easier to maintain, especially on our equipment.
I've been out of school quite a long time, and what really counts is productivity, regardless of the tools you choose to use. If your GUI tools work best for you then great. I'll use scripting -- SSH from my laptop, practically any server or even my iPod Touch -- thank you, with no need to launch Visual Studio or other such bloated IDE for most tasks.
Take the money if it's anything reasonable. You then have some resources to enable you to work on things that make you feel more free.
But seriously, take the money while the offer is there.
I used the BitTorrent option and got it no problem (I use Transmission). The link is broken for the "regular" download.
Not obvious enough to our users. You can't imagine the number of complaints we've had about this -- and the default format of files is Office 2007-only.
Several checklist items were added to our setup routines just to accommodate Office 2007, and retraining in many areas was needed.
Formulas and macros developed in Excel aren't the same, so one dept can't give one set of instructions to other depts not yet moved to Office 2007. In these financial times spending several hundred a pop seems more than an expensive transition, it seems a waste of resources.
Oh, yeah, it's bigger and slower too. Ugh. Where's the win in this situation again?
When I moved to TN, I saw firsthand blacks were called "boy" in public. I saw many, relegated to warehouse-type jobs, that had no hope to reach a higher place or status. The state ranks like 48th in education and they are spending money for religious education in schools instead of the basics. In TN I watched a late-term pregnant woman wash exterior windows of an office while her supervisor did nothing.
In some places although slavery is gone, the ability of workers to become more than laborers is severely limited. It's almost as if they can have no hope. While I may be out of there (hopefully soon) many others don't have my financial resources and support and are stuck in those places. Never having known better they languish and it saddens me to see their predicament. Would it be more cruel if they knew things were better elsewhere, or ignorant? It's not my place to dash their hopes.
You've just described Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and parts of the Carolinas.
Unfortunate but true.
I made the mistake of moving to Tennessee and have kicked myself repeatedly for it. If someone would pay me close to what I owe on this house, I would be gone immediately. Even though I would lose $15k on the deal I would consider it a bargain to leave that backwoods place.
Written from beautiful south Florida. Down here for a bit and I don't want to go back.
I am extremely disappointed, to say the least. These scum have caused huge amounts of trouble to innocent victims. The **AA's are just bullies.
I have strong feelings on this issue -- I really don't care what else Obama does, this makes a future vote for him impossible.
Seems obvious to me. I can't believe people are making a big deal out of this, especially those who have ever worked with CAPTCHAs before.
What's next, an "innovation" because it plays a (readily recognizable to the target audience) music sample? Same idea you know.
And I bet blind people are driven baty with CAPTCHAS anyway, this just makes web pages even less accessible to them.
Prior art may supposedly be equal to defense, yet it's not the same for many reasons. A clueless PTO and large legal fees to fight a patent once it's granted make it relatively easy to fight off patent challenges while you rake in money in the meantime.
A "good ideas" site won't protect anything from being patented, the only thing that stops a patent from being granted is another patent, and sometimes by changing words around that isn't even enough.
Unfortunately the patent system is hopelessly broken.
Maybe they should have a way of turning this on or off. I happen to really like the bouncy icon in OSX as I'm often AFK when messages pop up (I tend to leave machines on 24hrs).
I've missed many Windows messages because they get buried, don't have an icon in the taskbar, or popup on top of something else (stealing focus)* while I'm typing and get dismissed unintentionally (I type 70+wpm and don't always look at the screen, usually I'm transcribing my notes).
* I really really hate when it does this.
Beta is a test phase before rolling your RC and then retail. You don't add features that late in the game, you fix bugs. You fork features into the next release, service pack etc.
Sounds like he didn't have much of a choice. If it was in fact forced cooperation, wouldn't that fact have had precedence over everything else? Especially to tell him now that he cooperated a little he has to testify against himself (by providing the decryption key).
Don't get me wrong, child pron is indefensible and I personally feel he should be put in jail, but prosecuting him in this way opens up a kind of a slippery slope and I'd hate to see a precedent set. I worry about what could become of that.
Eloquently put. Well done. Let people be whomever they are so long as they aren't hurting you.