For the record, we were using the corporate edition (with the policies managed from a central location). We could not find any option or policy that would disable scanning of port 25.
It's probably different between versions... we upgraded to "Symantec Endpoint Protection" recently and I don't recall the exact policy in there - but version 10.x you would go to the management console to Configure->Internet E-Mail protect and disable it. Depending on where you changed this setting it would affect all clients, and IIRC there was an advanced option that would allow you to allow users to temporarily disable it.
At a previous company I worked for, we had to send out numerous survey invitations. Norton would quietly queue and scan all the outbound data (going to port 25)-- which worked in many cases. Except that it was slow. And there was now way of knowing how much data (if any) was still queued. And if the computer was restarted before Norton finished processing the queue, the data was silently lost (even though a "Accepted for delivery" message was returned to the sending program).
If by Norton you mean the home products, then the company deserves that. Symantec antivirus (the corporate edition) allows you to centrally manage antivirus clients similar to how Windows group policy works. With that, you can disable that behaviour outright or allow users to temporarily disable it. Coupled with a firewall that blocks all outgoing port 25 from the LAN side with the exception of the spam filter, which is the only server allowed to talk to the internet - all mail is routed through it. No mail servers or workstations are allowed direct access to port 25 to the public internet. Both the spam filter and email servers support queuing without messages being lost, even if a UPS fails.
My first thought: This is like taxing the postal service to deliver copied works. How is that supposed to work?
And they *say* they'll distribute the funds, but that hasn't seemed to work in the past. Why is this going to work now? Someone needs to realize this can't work in practice.
I don't know why more people that want to use 'unlimited' bandwidth, and not have ports blocked, etc....don't just get a business connection??
Not all areas have unlimited bandwidth on business connections. The only cable option here with a static IP is from Shaw which costs $166 monthly and still has a 175GB limit. And they enforce it. DSL options are no better bandwidth-wise... the limits is either 60GB or 80GB a month, but it is a little cheaper, around $90 a month.
I know the DSL provider here doesn't block ports on business connections, not really any experience with Shaw. I don't know many people that would pay that much a month to still not have a guaranteed uptime.
The guy took CDs he bought. He ripped them to mp3. He then loaded those mp3s into some file-sharing program.
I've always wondered about that. If he makes them available, and no one downloads them, how is that infringement? It's reasonable to think he ripped them for himself. I really doubt a P2P program can be used to manage a portable player, so you can't use that argument either.
Then again, if they do prove it (by them themselves downloading one of the "available" songs) aren't they still in the same boat? They've probably hired someone to go fishing, and they've downloaded an unauthorized copy of the song in question. From a legal sense, the person downloading it to prove that someone copied the song would be liable, no?
I'm kind of sleepy now, so tomorrow I'll probably wake up and wonder why the hell I wrote this.
That's why it took the SMART almost 8 years to get into the USA. And after "Americanizing" it to make it "safe" (you Canadians and Europeans with your death traps!) it is no longer an affordable car but a expensive curiosity.
Whoa! I live in Canada and this statement made me laugh! First of all, you have your facts mixed up: Cars in the US are less safe then Canada as the safety standards are lower. Up here we have a list of cars that are permitted in the US but not here. Some examples off the top of my head are the newer Nissan Sentra (2008) and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (2003+): these cars don't meet safety standards for bumpers in Canada.
By the way, the reason why the Smart car wasn't sold in the US for so long was emissions requirements, not because of the safety standards.
Other manufacturers such as Daihatsu aren't allowed here period.
Interesting that they aren't announcing the speed of USB3.0. Hopefully they'll go for a 10x speed boost, at least.
From the article: Dubbed SuperSpeed USB, the third major incarnation of the serial bus standard is set to deliver data transfer speeds of around 4.7Gb/s - ten times today's 480Mb/s limit.
Yep, I haven't used Windows at home since 2003 (ish?). Linux definitely does use the device better, but the umount command can stall for up to 5 minutes while it writes out the cache.
I still use firewire for it, it's just more consistent with speeds. My read/write speeds were always all over the place. Drive caddies are so damn useful when you need more than a 4GB USB stick. I just wish it weren't so unpredictable.
I'm surprised nobody has manufactured an add-in card with it's own processor for USB. Video cards do, why not USB? Of course, there's always the driver issue...
sync forces the cache to disk, I know. The problem: *writing* to the disk takes 5 minutes. Constant disk activity for 5 minutes. The command doesn't help there at all.
I wonder about the new speed specification... in my experience even with no other devices on the USB bus getting 480mbit was impossible. I always had to resort to firewire for my drive caddy because I got consistent results with it.
I sure hope they've addressed this issue. The OS caching helped, unless you wanted to unplug the damn thing right away - then you had to wait 5 minutes for the cache to flush out.
The lossy to lossless thing does work though. In fact, I saved a bit of space converting a couple AACs to FLAC, quality is still horrid of course, but very compact. (The songs in question were victims in the itunes rampage, MP3 to ACC compression sounds really bad).
Of course it sounds bad when you convert a lossy file to lossless, you can't get the information back that was lost during the initial compression. That's all I was pointing out in my primary post. You can't do a "lossless" conversion from WMA->AAC (or WMA->FLAC) like you pointed out because there is information already missing. If you have the original "lossless" source (either FLAC or CDDA) then you can convert however many times you want because you still retain the lossless source. Once you convert lossy back and forth a few times it's very evident that it doesn't work. It's not rocket science...
3. If you have the rights to play it on your PC then you can convert wma files to your ipod without quality loss since it uses lossless conversion.
All the DRM stuff aside, point 3 is wrong. WMA is a lossy format, so you can't have a "lossless" conversion. Whenever you convert from lossy->lossy there will always be quality degradation. It's unavoidable unless you have a lossless file as the source.
Giving tools to degrade... err... convert lossy formats to lossy formats in my opinion is a terrible middle-ground instead of playing the format natively on the device (which will not have degradation from converting.)
All this aside, is there anyone that actually *uses* WMA? Nevermind the DRM-riddled WMA, even the unprotected files. I don't know of anyone myself.
Not saying newspapers are superior, just listing advantages, and one of the reasons I've considered getting a subscription.
Another advantage for newsprint that I rarely see listed when comparing to the Internet: You don't need power to read a newspaper. Even if it's dark, grab a candle and you can read. Damn windstorms. I stare too much at computer screen already as it is...
I doubt they need output, but perhaps the function of the sound card is to capture the input from the radio receiver.
I doubt the sound card is able to process 2GHz bands (assuming these devices use the standard 2GHz band, that is...) Audio cards are normally designed for human hearing (i.e. 20Hz-20kHz.) I don't think an audio card would work that far out of its range unless it's heavily modified.
I don't particularly like wireless devices myself - in my house, as an example, there's so much interference that my cordless phone (5.2GHz) and my cell phone have trouble. I'm lucky to sync with my WAP 20-30 feet away and get speeds of 50KB/sec. The closer I get the worse it gets... I don't know what's causing the interference but there's something. Neighbour's microwave maybe?
Just FYI, here in the US, the law basically states that the company can fire you for any (legal) reason at any time, and therefore employees also have the right to quit at any time for any reason. The 2 week thing is a general courtesy understood throughout the workforce, but not required by law.
In BC, Canada, the 2 week period is mandatory if your employer fires you... unless you are caught doing something illegal. If you don't get your 2 weeks, the employer has to pay you severance pay. This probably varies from province to province. I had issues with a previous employer about 10 years ago and this is how it worked out.
I'm not sure about when you give notice, though.
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I thought Microsoft was more known for swallowing things whole anyway!
I should add that the UI for managing Symantec is really awful - haven't really decided whether or not their new release is better or worse... ;)
It's probably different between versions... we upgraded to "Symantec Endpoint Protection" recently and I don't recall the exact policy in there - but version 10.x you would go to the management console to Configure->Internet E-Mail protect and disable it. Depending on where you changed this setting it would affect all clients, and IIRC there was an advanced option that would allow you to allow users to temporarily disable it.
If by Norton you mean the home products, then the company deserves that. Symantec antivirus (the corporate edition) allows you to centrally manage antivirus clients similar to how Windows group policy works. With that, you can disable that behaviour outright or allow users to temporarily disable it. Coupled with a firewall that blocks all outgoing port 25 from the LAN side with the exception of the spam filter, which is the only server allowed to talk to the internet - all mail is routed through it. No mail servers or workstations are allowed direct access to port 25 to the public internet. Both the spam filter and email servers support queuing without messages being lost, even if a UPS fails.
This is still flawed. I, for one, don't download music. I don't share my connection with others. Why should I have to pay this tax?
Then what happens when this threatens other industry groups? We could have ISP tolls at $100 a month. Very, very bad precedent to set!
I suggest you check on the exchange rates. It's pretty even now. Definitely not what you're saying.
My first thought: This is like taxing the postal service to deliver copied works. How is that supposed to work?
And they *say* they'll distribute the funds, but that hasn't seemed to work in the past. Why is this going to work now? Someone needs to realize this can't work in practice.
Not all areas have unlimited bandwidth on business connections. The only cable option here with a static IP is from Shaw which costs $166 monthly and still has a 175GB limit. And they enforce it. DSL options are no better bandwidth-wise... the limits is either 60GB or 80GB a month, but it is a little cheaper, around $90 a month.
I know the DSL provider here doesn't block ports on business connections, not really any experience with Shaw. I don't know many people that would pay that much a month to still not have a guaranteed uptime.
I've always wondered about that. If he makes them available, and no one downloads them, how is that infringement? It's reasonable to think he ripped them for himself. I really doubt a P2P program can be used to manage a portable player, so you can't use that argument either.
Then again, if they do prove it (by them themselves downloading one of the "available" songs) aren't they still in the same boat? They've probably hired someone to go fishing, and they've downloaded an unauthorized copy of the song in question. From a legal sense, the person downloading it to prove that someone copied the song would be liable, no?
I'm kind of sleepy now, so tomorrow I'll probably wake up and wonder why the hell I wrote this.
Whoa! I live in Canada and this statement made me laugh! First of all, you have your facts mixed up: Cars in the US are less safe then Canada as the safety standards are lower. Up here we have a list of cars that are permitted in the US but not here. Some examples off the top of my head are the newer Nissan Sentra (2008) and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (2003+): these cars don't meet safety standards for bumpers in Canada.
By the way, the reason why the Smart car wasn't sold in the US for so long was emissions requirements, not because of the safety standards.
Other manufacturers such as Daihatsu aren't allowed here period.
You might want to get some facts straight first.
From the article: Dubbed SuperSpeed USB, the third major incarnation of the serial bus standard is set to deliver data transfer speeds of around 4.7Gb/s - ten times today's 480Mb/s limit.
Yep, I haven't used Windows at home since 2003 (ish?). Linux definitely does use the device better, but the umount command can stall for up to 5 minutes while it writes out the cache.
I still use firewire for it, it's just more consistent with speeds. My read/write speeds were always all over the place. Drive caddies are so damn useful when you need more than a 4GB USB stick. I just wish it weren't so unpredictable.
I'm surprised nobody has manufactured an add-in card with it's own processor for USB. Video cards do, why not USB? Of course, there's always the driver issue...
sync forces the cache to disk, I know. The problem: *writing* to the disk takes 5 minutes. Constant disk activity for 5 minutes. The command doesn't help there at all.
I wonder about the new speed specification... in my experience even with no other devices on the USB bus getting 480mbit was impossible. I always had to resort to firewire for my drive caddy because I got consistent results with it.
I sure hope they've addressed this issue. The OS caching helped, unless you wanted to unplug the damn thing right away - then you had to wait 5 minutes for the cache to flush out.
Of course it sounds bad when you convert a lossy file to lossless, you can't get the information back that was lost during the initial compression. That's all I was pointing out in my primary post. You can't do a "lossless" conversion from WMA->AAC (or WMA->FLAC) like you pointed out because there is information already missing. If you have the original "lossless" source (either FLAC or CDDA) then you can convert however many times you want because you still retain the lossless source. Once you convert lossy back and forth a few times it's very evident that it doesn't work. It's not rocket science...
All the DRM stuff aside, point 3 is wrong. WMA is a lossy format, so you can't have a "lossless" conversion. Whenever you convert from lossy->lossy there will always be quality degradation. It's unavoidable unless you have a lossless file as the source.
Giving tools to degrade... err... convert lossy formats to lossy formats in my opinion is a terrible middle-ground instead of playing the format natively on the device (which will not have degradation from converting.)
All this aside, is there anyone that actually *uses* WMA? Nevermind the DRM-riddled WMA, even the unprotected files. I don't know of anyone myself.
Just imagine all the shit on the roads if there were as many horse drawn carriages as there are cars now!
Another advantage for newsprint that I rarely see listed when comparing to the Internet: You don't need power to read a newspaper. Even if it's dark, grab a candle and you can read. Damn windstorms. I stare too much at computer screen already as it is...
Dang, but bricks can be useful. Haven't you seen a wall'o'laptops in stores? Gah, I think I had too much to drink...
Wow, someone still uses COBOL?
I remember being told I had to learn it as part of my curriculum back in 1994 because the instructor said you might find out someone is using it.
It only took 14 years!
Did you even read the article? Or even the text you quoted? No one is talking about running Vista on that hardware.
XP might be possible, but I'd wonder about being able to add any software to it.
I doubt the sound card is able to process 2GHz bands (assuming these devices use the standard 2GHz band, that is...) Audio cards are normally designed for human hearing (i.e. 20Hz-20kHz.) I don't think an audio card would work that far out of its range unless it's heavily modified.
I don't particularly like wireless devices myself - in my house, as an example, there's so much interference that my cordless phone (5.2GHz) and my cell phone have trouble. I'm lucky to sync with my WAP 20-30 feet away and get speeds of 50KB/sec. The closer I get the worse it gets... I don't know what's causing the interference but there's something. Neighbour's microwave maybe?
In BC, Canada, the 2 week period is mandatory if your employer fires you... unless you are caught doing something illegal. If you don't get your 2 weeks, the employer has to pay you severance pay. This probably varies from province to province. I had issues with a previous employer about 10 years ago and this is how it worked out. I'm not sure about when you give notice, though.
Well, I know where I live there was some dumbass who had a 20 burner array set up and was mass copying them for sale.
The reason he was caught? He bought an ad in the paper. No joke. I wonder if he even knew why the cops showed up at his door...
Hmm. I think back then they didn't post the article online. It was back in 2003.