I've used Nod32 for years - it uses hardly any system resources and has a stellar record of detecting viruses according to the Virus Bulletin's 100% awards.
Recently though it didn't detect a couple of p2p trojans on clients' machines and a demo of Kaspersky did. I'm considering switching to Kaspersky when my Nod32 license expires.
What exactly is the point of computerizing any step in the process, if you end up counting physical ballots?
Here is a link to what a Canadian ballot looks like. You mark an X in the circle. We used these yesterday. They work.
You have ten times our population in the US, so that's a lot more ballots, but that means you also have ten times the willing volunteers to tabulate these things, no?
They just got Sufjan Stevens in which is nice. Been looking forward to that.
The Alarm, The Hold Steady, Antony and the Johnsons, Arcade Fire, The Microphones, The Pixies, at 25 cents a track, high quality Lame VBR encodings - what are you waiting for?
We need to stand up and tell all the family members and friends we're supporting for free - we are, after all, unpaid Microsoft technical support, without whom the users might as well be using command-line Unix - that they can either stop using IE, stop calling us for support, or expect a $200.00 per hour charge, with a one hour minimum per call.
Enough is enough. No more unpaid work cleaning up after Bill. It's like walking behind an elephant with a dustpan and a broom.
eMusic gives you tracks for 22 cents each - Lame VBR encoded MP3s - and of course there's no copy protection. And they have great independent labels like Matador, Kill Rock Stars, 5 Rue Christine, Thrill Jockey, Mille Plateaux, Schematic, etc. plus a shitload of jazz and classical. I have the 90 songs a month for 20 bucks deal - you can buy more if your downloads run out before the month is up.
I refuse to buy into this dollar a song for inferior closed formats with DRM deal. eMusic may not be perfect but it's the closest thing going.
"What Mozilla needs to do is get their browser out there and on desktops, but more importantly they need to document(!) and further develop XUL. Try to use it for making business applications like I've mentioned above (not chat clients, get serious). Find out where the weak spots and gaps are and fix and fill them in. At the same time they need to get things working happening on the server side. OSS is strong on the server, but we need proper libraries and support for XUL apps on the server written in Java, PHP, etc hell even C# if really want to use a window webserver. For the love of god Mozilla, get in touch with Apache.org, Tomcat and friends. Create a full and complete platform (server + client) for creating and delivery business/database applications. We already have the big pieces."
Exactly - you clearly Get It.
Let's say there's an existing database in MySQL or whatever - if you could write an interface to it in XUL and have the "browser" construct a rich client front that understands transactions, field validation and persistence - that would be heaven. The Eclipse RCP project is very close to doing something useful and usable in this domain but it still seems to require too much hand coding for the front end.
Symantec - yeesh, where to begin - it destabilizes and slows down any computer it's installed on. To be fair it does a halfway decent job at detecting viruses if you keep it updated, but Eset Nod32 is a much much better piece of software. I love the new version - it automatically installs with what I think are the best possible defaults, then stays out of your way for a year until it's time to subscribe again.
It's getting to where Sun's only popular and successful product is Java. The standard edition SDK and Netbeans are free, but for how much longer? I think they'll start squeezing for money if they keep getting their asses kicked in hardware and OSes.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. C-beams glittering in the dark by the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I'd rather go somewhere else where the music is better, the downloads are virtually unlimited and the sound quality is the best of any subscription service on the net (Lame VBR encoded MP3s).
No, they don't have stuff like Britney Spears and Led Zeppelin, but they have more excellent indie, experimental, electronic, metal, jazz, punk, classical and uncategorizable music than you could ever listen to in a lifetime. If you're sick of Clear Channel bullshit and hungry for something exciting and interesting, it is a feast.
And you get to keep every single file you have downloaded. Permanently.
(I know they had some trouble recently with their new servers wbut that seems to be resolved now)
I don't care if this is redundant and costs me points, it needs to be repeated as often as possible:
Emusic has unlimited downloads of excellent indie, electronic, blues, jazz and classical,etc. etc. music - full albums, ten bucks a month if you subscribe for a year. Well encoded except for the metal, where the distorted guitars suffer a bit from the 128k bit rate.
They have the entire Matador catalog, and oodles and oodles of other off-center selections. The first few days I was subscribed I downloaded 2 gigs of stuff and felt faint and woozy with music lust.
There's no Britney or Zeppelin, but who cares? If you're a Slashdot reader you probably have offbeat tastes, so go dig in!
I've been reading the short stories of Anton Chekhov. Click the link to read Gusev, one of his best imho.
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick was fantastic. I've got my wife reading Valis.
Read Naked Lunch if you haven't already. Don't expect it to make sense; just laugh at the funny parts. There are lots of funny parts. Did I ever tell you the one about the man who taught his asshole to talk?
Love is a Dog from Hell and Hot Water Music are the best by Charles Bukowski. You can really smell the urinal.
Edgar Allan Poe is a weird read, especially his comic work. Ya just don't expect youyrself to be laughing out loud over Poe.
I'd like to recommend Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon but I just can't finish it. Every goddamn chapter has enough material in it for several novels already. Read the first third of it like I did, it's pretty good, also very funny.
Read these while listening to Capitol K, Jan Jelinek, the Handsome Family, Posthuman, and anything else that is a) astonishingly good and b) on an indie label.
A techie friend of mine is recommending a whole bunch of sci fi and fantasy authors I've never heard of, but he's a Microsoft weenie so I might have to disregard that shit and eat his skin.
God damn those dickshitting chancre-eating mongo fuckers!
Last night I heard a great new artist on a shoutcast station (another non-approved media outlet that they're trying to shut down) and today when I go to sample a couple more tracks, I find everything is locked up.
Audiogalaxy was truly the best. It had just about every non-mainstream artist I'd ever heard of and then some. I've been buying CDs for the past two years exclusively based on stuff I've been able to sample from them.
Compared to Audiogalaxy, Gnutella, Limewire and Kazaa users have nothing but crap. You might as well try and shop for interesting music at Walmart.
Mainstream media can go BUTTFUCK ITSELF IN THE MOUTH. I'm still going to try and find stuff that gooses my juices but it's going to be harder to find and I won't therefore be buying as much. Not that the RIAA gives a bearded hag's ass--they only notice when someone buys the ten godzillionth unit of some spastic fucking living dead Franken-pop they sewed together out of Elvis Presley's anal warts and scraps from the dumpster out back Michael Jackson's plastic surgery disaster clinic.
I'd love to hear more of what he has to say about media decentralization and the gargantuan shift from megastars to niche artists. Can we try and do one of those "ask Bowie 20 questions" thingies?
I still think there's room for artists to sell music in a physical medium, with disks, nice cover art, books, perhaps a box set. I've downloaded just about everything by Tommy Guerrero but I'm collecting the CDs anyways... better sound quality, more permanent, nice cover art, and the pleasure of owning them and knowing I've contributed something to the artist. (TG does amazing grooving downtempo Cali-Latin style funky jazzy ambient blues, kinda like Booker T meets Tortoise with a bottle of wine on Carlos Santana's back porch.).
When they start being held accountable for their actions. This kind of stuff needs to be spoken about with the same tones of outrage or concern, as when someone leave the office doors unlocked at night.
Well there's the thing. If you voice those concerns in advance, they'll ask "well how are people going to get in if the doors aren't unlocked" or words to that effect.
I don't think you understand how fucking stupid people are, or how their ignorance translates into policy.
Okay, what patents has Microsoft filed and not used, purely in potential self-defense?
Oh Gee, there's Clear Type, an idea which they seem to have stolen from Apple.
So tell me, what groundbreaking ideas have they patented in their self defense?
(What else have they come up with? NT, which is lifted from the OS/2 codebase, which seems to be based on VMS. SQL server, which was licensed from Sybase. The GUI, which they stole from Apple, who stole it from Xerox. Disk compression, which they stole from Stac. Their TCP/IP stack, which they stole from BSD. Their version of Kerberos, which they lifted from an open spec. Wow! The government needs to protect these invaluable innovators!)
But an admin should have access to EVERYTHING without having to hack into it.
User stupidity is a prime example. If you want to instill security into a user base, you should be able to enforce password rules and expiration dates. You should be able to change password God123 to Gh0D3s1 at your whim and force the user to memorize the goddamned thing, and tear any post-it notes off the user's monitor bezel as it suits you. But that's just my POV, I could be wrong.
And if your (l)users are using Hotmail for mission critical data, you should be allowed to stick white hot donkey rods of PURE HATRED up their quivering clueless assholes.
And again, that is just my personal opinion; I could be wrong.
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That's built on a barebones Asus Z71V. Damn fine laptop. I'm typing on one as we speak.
I've used Nod32 for years - it uses hardly any system resources and has a stellar record of detecting viruses according to the Virus Bulletin's 100% awards.
Recently though it didn't detect a couple of p2p trojans on clients' machines and a demo of Kaspersky did. I'm considering switching to Kaspersky when my Nod32 license expires.
What exactly is the point of computerizing any step in the process, if you end up counting physical ballots?
Here is a link to what a Canadian ballot looks like. You mark an X in the circle. We used these yesterday. They work.
You have ten times our population in the US, so that's a lot more ballots, but that means you also have ten times the willing volunteers to tabulate these things, no?
I suggest we refer to this hardware cookie as a shit biscuit.
Only this time it's on topic!
They just got Sufjan Stevens in which is nice. Been looking forward to that. The Alarm, The Hold Steady, Antony and the Johnsons, Arcade Fire, The Microphones, The Pixies, at 25 cents a track, high quality Lame VBR encodings - what are you waiting for?
Radio is that thing that plays the music that gets mentioned on entertainment news shows, right?
I think I know some old people who still listen to it.
And those in the blue states will claim to have invented it.
They, uh, did.
Look at the cast page in the Flash. All the evil henchmen are black - even the Russian one.
I've got a better way to convince users.
We need to stand up and tell all the family members and friends we're supporting for free - we are, after all, unpaid Microsoft technical support, without whom the users might as well be using command-line Unix - that they can either stop using IE, stop calling us for support, or expect a $200.00 per hour charge, with a one hour minimum per call.
Enough is enough. No more unpaid work cleaning up after Bill. It's like walking behind an elephant with a dustpan and a broom.
I like the Mostly Crystal theme, with small icons of course. Just the right amount of eye candy IMHO - much nicer than the new default theme.
eMusic gives you tracks for 22 cents each - Lame VBR encoded MP3s - and of course there's no copy protection. And they have great independent labels like Matador, Kill Rock Stars, 5 Rue Christine, Thrill Jockey, Mille Plateaux, Schematic, etc. plus a shitload of jazz and classical. I have the 90 songs a month for 20 bucks deal - you can buy more if your downloads run out before the month is up.
I refuse to buy into this dollar a song for inferior closed formats with DRM deal. eMusic may not be perfect but it's the closest thing going.
eMusic
"What Mozilla needs to do is get their browser out there and on desktops, but more importantly they need to document(!) and further develop XUL. Try to use it for making business applications like I've mentioned above (not chat clients, get serious). Find out where the weak spots and gaps are and fix and fill them in. At the same time they need to get things working happening on the server side. OSS is strong on the server, but we need proper libraries and support for XUL apps on the server written in Java, PHP, etc hell even C# if really want to use a window webserver. For the love of god Mozilla, get in touch with Apache.org, Tomcat and friends. Create a full and complete platform (server + client) for creating and delivery business/database applications. We already have the big pieces."
Exactly - you clearly Get It.
Let's say there's an existing database in MySQL or whatever - if you could write an interface to it in XUL and have the "browser" construct a rich client front that understands transactions, field validation and persistence - that would be heaven. The Eclipse RCP project is very close to doing something useful and usable in this domain but it still seems to require too much hand coding for the front end.
Symantec - yeesh, where to begin - it destabilizes and slows down any computer it's installed on. To be fair it does a halfway decent job at detecting viruses if you keep it updated, but Eset Nod32 is a much much better piece of software. I love the new version - it automatically installs with what I think are the best possible defaults, then stays out of your way for a year until it's time to subscribe again.
It's getting to where Sun's only popular and successful product is Java. The standard edition SDK and Netbeans are free, but for how much longer? I think they'll start squeezing for money if they keep getting their asses kicked in hardware and OSes.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. C-beams glittering in the dark by the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Um. I would be careful of who I get my news from. Tbrnews.org is run by these clowns who appear to be neo-nazis.
So while the site may actually link to some decent material, perhaps you ought to get it elsewhere if you can...
I'd rather go somewhere else where the music is better, the downloads are virtually unlimited and the sound quality is the best of any subscription service on the net (Lame VBR encoded MP3s).
What am I talking about? EMusic of course.
No, they don't have stuff like Britney Spears and Led Zeppelin, but they have more excellent indie, experimental, electronic, metal, jazz, punk, classical and uncategorizable music than you could ever listen to in a lifetime. If you're sick of Clear Channel bullshit and hungry for something exciting and interesting, it is a feast.
And you get to keep every single file you have downloaded. Permanently.
(I know they had some trouble recently with their new servers wbut that seems to be resolved now)
I don't care if this is redundant and costs me points, it needs to be repeated as often as possible:
,etc. etc. music - full albums, ten bucks a month if you subscribe for a year. Well encoded except for the metal, where the distorted guitars suffer a bit from the 128k bit rate.
Emusic has unlimited downloads of excellent indie, electronic, blues, jazz and classical
They have the entire Matador catalog, and oodles and oodles of other off-center selections. The first few days I was subscribed I downloaded 2 gigs of stuff and felt faint and woozy with music lust.
There's no Britney or Zeppelin, but who cares? If you're a Slashdot reader you probably have offbeat tastes, so go dig in!
I've been reading the short stories of Anton Chekhov. Click the link to read Gusev, one of his best imho.
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick was fantastic. I've got my wife reading Valis.
Read Naked Lunch if you haven't already. Don't expect it to make sense; just laugh at the funny parts. There are lots of funny parts. Did I ever tell you the one about the man who taught his asshole to talk?
Love is a Dog from Hell and Hot Water Music are the best by Charles Bukowski. You can really smell the urinal.
Edgar Allan Poe is a weird read, especially his comic work. Ya just don't expect youyrself to be laughing out loud over Poe.
I'd like to recommend Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon but I just can't finish it. Every goddamn chapter has enough material in it for several novels already. Read the first third of it like I did, it's pretty good, also very funny.
Read these while listening to Capitol K, Jan Jelinek, the Handsome Family, Posthuman, and anything else that is a) astonishingly good and b) on an indie label.
A techie friend of mine is recommending a whole bunch of sci fi and fantasy authors I've never heard of, but he's a Microsoft weenie so I might have to disregard that shit and eat his skin.
G
The right mouse doesn't really know what the left mouse is doing, does it?
I mean, does Disney's animation department have any idea of the ramifications of the legislation proposed by their government employee (Hollings)?
I guess this is good news... at least there are people within Disney who will (one expects) fight to keep their OWN TOOLS from becoming contraband.
G
God damn those dickshitting chancre-eating mongo fuckers!
Last night I heard a great new artist on a shoutcast station (another non-approved media outlet that they're trying to shut down) and today when I go to sample a couple more tracks, I find everything is locked up.
Audiogalaxy was truly the best. It had just about every non-mainstream artist I'd ever heard of and then some. I've been buying CDs for the past two years exclusively based on stuff I've been able to sample from them.
Compared to Audiogalaxy, Gnutella, Limewire and Kazaa users have nothing but crap. You might as well try and shop for interesting music at Walmart.
Mainstream media can go BUTTFUCK ITSELF IN THE MOUTH. I'm still going to try and find stuff that gooses my juices but it's going to be harder to find and I won't therefore be buying as much. Not that the RIAA gives a bearded hag's ass--they only notice when someone buys the ten godzillionth unit of some spastic fucking living dead Franken-pop they sewed together out of Elvis Presley's anal warts and scraps from the dumpster out back Michael Jackson's plastic surgery disaster clinic.
Fuck. I reiterate, FUCKKK.
G
I'd love to hear more of what he has to say about media decentralization and the gargantuan shift from megastars to niche artists. Can we try and do one of those "ask Bowie 20 questions" thingies?
I still think there's room for artists to sell music in a physical medium, with disks, nice cover art, books, perhaps a box set. I've downloaded just about everything by Tommy Guerrero but I'm collecting the CDs anyways... better sound quality, more permanent, nice cover art, and the pleasure of owning them and knowing I've contributed something to the artist. (TG does amazing grooving downtempo Cali-Latin style funky jazzy ambient blues, kinda like Booker T meets Tortoise with a bottle of wine on Carlos Santana's back porch.).
G
Well there's the thing. If you voice those concerns in advance, they'll ask "well how are people going to get in if the doors aren't unlocked" or words to that effect.
I don't think you understand how fucking stupid people are, or how their ignorance translates into policy.
G
Okay, what patents has Microsoft filed and not used, purely in potential self-defense?
Oh Gee, there's Clear Type, an idea which they seem to have stolen from Apple.
So tell me, what groundbreaking ideas have they patented in their self defense?
(What else have they come up with? NT, which is lifted from the OS/2 codebase, which seems to be based on VMS. SQL server, which was licensed from Sybase. The GUI, which they stole from Apple, who stole it from Xerox. Disk compression, which they stole from Stac. Their TCP/IP stack, which they stole from BSD. Their version of Kerberos, which they lifted from an open spec. Wow! The government needs to protect these invaluable innovators!)
G
LOL Yeah I'm still lobbying for a marble desk.
But an admin should have access to EVERYTHING without having to hack into it.
User stupidity is a prime example. If you want to instill security into a user base, you should be able to enforce password rules and expiration dates. You should be able to change password God123 to Gh0D3s1 at your whim and force the user to memorize the goddamned thing, and tear any post-it notes off the user's monitor bezel as it suits you. But that's just my POV, I could be wrong.
And if your (l)users are using Hotmail for mission critical data, you should be allowed to stick white hot donkey rods of PURE HATRED up their quivering clueless assholes.
And again, that is just my personal opinion; I could be wrong.
G