It's built on wine, they feed back into wine, and it allows me to run the few remaining software apps I need to that are only available for Windows. I also still run Microsoft Office under Crossover but am almost always now using OpenOffice instead. Using Crossover, I hardly ever boot into Windows any more (yeah, I am set up dual boot still...).
OK, copyright law is one thing, but frauds like Uri Geller do whatever they can to keep anyone from showing their tricks. He's no more than the tent evangelist that has shills in the audience or people who listen to conversations so the perp can somehow know something personal about their next mark.
Geller is only one step away from the televangelists that want you to lay hands on your TV and feel the power... and then send in your contribution.
I think it is still very relevant. Microsoft has not slowed down one bit from their tactics of intimidation aimed at any reseller that dares to load another OS. They still use monopolistic tactics in the marketplace. They still try to sell buggy and unfit software as the greatest thing since sliced bread. They lie. (They claimed Vista was a complete re-write of Windows when it turns out that new XP security holes also exist in Vista. How can that be if Vista code is all new?)
Microsoft has always been far better at bully marketing tactics, stealing code, locking out competitors, and squeezing the customer for every penny they possibly can, than they have ever been at producing a good reliable and secure operating system.
I believe the Borg comparison is still entirely valid.
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AT&T was right there with Verizon giving customer's personal information and calling histories/stats/numbers to the Bush administration when they asked - without a warrant.
The only company that I know of that refused to give such information to the Bush administration was Qwest.
Why people are willing to continue to reward a company that violates your privacy in return for special consideration is beyond me. People should drop AT&T and Verizon if it is at all possible.
And shareholder's data. Make a law that puts the money-grubbing CEO and other officer's data in the databases with the customer's data. Then sit back and see what kind of directives management gives to their IT departments to secure data, networks, and workstations. But put their personal data to the same risk as what they deem is sufficient for all the people they don't know or care about. Then see how responsible they get.
Why does it take a data breach happening to some organization to get them to decide to protect information?
Maybe a law should be made that any organization that is trusted with public data be forced to imbed all of their CEO's, CFO's, other officers, management, and shareholder's data in the same databases.
I know that the reason all this data keeps getting exposed is because management would rather save money instead of training their IT staff (if they need it) or just giving them the time to implement good, safe, data handling practices. Put their data on the line too and let's see how they decide about safe data handling practices.
That they complied with one of Bush's illegal and immoral demands for information without a warrant.
I dropped them cold. I terminated my account. Sold my phone. and switched to Qwest - because they refused the illegal demands.
And all should know - if you can retroactively make illegal acts legal, you can make them illegal again if the whole act of making them legal was illegal - which it is.
This administration is so far from a democracy it is amazing that the American people have stood for it. That said, I have to congratulate the Bush administration for convincing an entire country that black is white, facism is freedom, and the immorality is moral.
Sadly, I think that it is too late for this country, and by extension, the world. The Bush administration has let the real issues, the most dangerous to humanity, fester -- or has actually made them worse. We have lost eight years in working to solve the world's greatest threats - eight years that one day people will look back on and curse that they could have done something and yet did not.
And Bill Clinton also wasted ten years. While not as outright damaging as George Bush, Bill Clinton also threw away a huge opportunity to do good.
This problem is far more common than people think -- especially at smaller companies that are trying to make ends meet.
What I did in one case was to comply with the order and then got the hell out. I needed the time to find another job. I didn't turn them in to SPA or anything but I sometimes wish I had after some wait long enough to not point the finger back at me.
In another instance, I discovered that my predecessor had installed a bunch of copies of software without having the licenses (nowhere near) to cover the installations. I knew my supervisor was (a) a slimeball, and (b) short on money to cover the software. When I told him about the situation, he asked me to find out how much it would cost to make all the software legal so I did. It was too much for him to cover so he decided not to do anything about it.
Not wanting to be associated with illegal software (I can't go into details, but this was a place with oversight and the consequences to being a party to this would mean immediate dismissal), and wanting to cover my butt, I talked to a company rep for the software and asked if there was a way to convert old licenses to new through some kind of upgrade, plus get a discount on a volume buy. I did this without my supervisor's knowledge or permission.
I felt I had no choice. I did not see going to his supervisor as an option as I was relatively new and my supervisor had lots of friends. I did the only thing that I thought I could to cover myself. By contacting the company rep, I alerted the company that there was technically piracy going on with their software. I did it without authority, but I also covered the entity's butt I worked for by owning up to the software company and appearing to be proactive. I covered my organization's butt to our parent organization as we were subject to software audits -- which would have put us (and me) in an extreme corner. I also forced my supervisor to pony up for the illegal software. And I also documented dates, inventories, and anything to make my case just in case someone tried to blame me for the illegal copies.
My supervisor, however, targeted me and cut my position at his very next opportunity and I had to take another position in the organization. Luckily it worked out for the better. He was also eventually targeted and demoted by his supervisor. Maybe I could have gone above him but I didn't know that at the time.
It was a really tough position. I did what I felt I had to do to cover myself and the organization I work for and to force the hand of my supervisor who was quite content to operate with tens of thousands of dollars of illegal software. I had already been through the situation once and didn't feel like doing it again. It also really made me angry that someone would put me in that position when I am an IT professional. It just sucked. I have absolutely no respect for any supervisor who would do that to an employee and if placed in that position in the future, I would probably be even more open about cutting off their dick by documenting, buidling a case, and going as high as I needed to go to get the issue resolved. I realize that sometimes the supervisor is the CEO/director/whatever, and you can't go higher. In such cases I think all you can do is comply to buy time and get the hell out.
I am glad to hear that it won't be Windows. Open software is a much better choice when you are trying to distribute low-cost computers to every child. Windows would have locked them into the Windows upgrade cycle, required frequent net access for updates, and would have just hidden a lot of the internals from the kids.
Open software, while it also requires updates, gives them a much better platform on which to learn. They can explore *nix operating systems, add programs - almost always for free, plus it will build an open software user base around the world. Not that that isn't already happening as more and more countries and companies switch to open source software, but by bringing on a new generation, this will be the push to put open source over the top.
But we are. Every one of us and everything we know around us is made up of star debris. We are all the products of fusion reactions in stars. We are made of atoms that are billions and billions of years old.
We have been deep in space. We have ridden on asteroids, meteorites, comets, and planets.
I am in IT and I have to take on call. We rotate it. But we also get an extra bump when we are on call - whether we get called in or not. But sometimes we end up spending all night and all weekend having to fix stuff and that does get real old really fast. I had to miss my fiancee's sister's birthday because I was on call and got called in.
Now, management sees the on call pay as an expense they would like to cut. When/if they cut it, I think the on call response is going to get a lot worse. A lot worse.
It was basically a manual DNS attack. With so many waiting until the last minute, what do people expect? File at least a day before the deadline. What difference does a day's worth of interest make on the average IRS tax bill? And if people are so concerned about a day's worth of interest, print the damn return and mail it with a check. That way you get a few more days of interest.
I just don't understand the dorks that wait so long they have no options.
Gag. I have two boxes I run XP on (dual boot with Linux) and that's as far as it is ever going to get. I'm off the Microsoft treadmill and doubt I will ever get back on. I can do everything I need to do under XP or Linux - with more and more that I can do under Linux all the time. I don't think I've booted into Windows in a couple of months now - literally.
With all the uproar over losing troops in Iraq, and all the embarassment that brings to the Bush administration, you can bet everything you own and will ever own that a technically good robot will be deployed instead of people and will be used to target everything strategically significant in a war zone - including people.
Let them run a Microsoft OS! Then, not only would they require periodic and untimely reboots, but they would spray spam and DDOS attacks wherever they were deployed.
"Sargent, sir, the latest Microsoft patch, deployed during the robot squad's advance on the target, requires a reboot. Not only that, but there are several zero day exploits that the enemy knows about. The server is telling us there will be an automatic reboot in 30 seconds. What are your orders, sir?"
Wonderful. All we need are even more boxes, running Microsoft "spambot-ready" software, administered by people with no clue how to really protect a system.
Nothing like thousands or millions of always-on bots, filtering keystrokes, launching DDOS attacks, spamming everyone in any e-mail to/from list that happens to pass through.
I for one do not welcome our new incompetent spam-bot non-administrator overlords.
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It's built on wine, they feed back into wine, and it allows me to run the few remaining software apps I need to that are only available for Windows. I also still run Microsoft Office under Crossover but am almost always now using OpenOffice instead. Using Crossover, I hardly ever boot into Windows any more (yeah, I am set up dual boot still...).
OK, copyright law is one thing, but frauds like Uri Geller do whatever they can to keep anyone from showing their tricks. He's no more than the tent evangelist that has shills in the audience or people who listen to conversations so the perp can somehow know something personal about their next mark.
Geller is only one step away from the televangelists that want you to lay hands on your TV and feel the power... and then send in your contribution.
And it seems that no matter what they do, Microsoft can't find it.
My damn automatic cupholder quit working. I called Dell but they just laughed at me.
What kind of company just laughs at their customers???
And two Office licenses, you can have four actual computers running Linux with no registration hassles and far fewer security issues...
That icon isn't even relevant anymore.
I think it is still very relevant. Microsoft has not slowed down one bit from their tactics of intimidation aimed at any reseller that dares to load another OS. They still use monopolistic tactics in the marketplace. They still try to sell buggy and unfit software as the greatest thing since sliced bread. They lie. (They claimed Vista was a complete re-write of Windows when it turns out that new XP security holes also exist in Vista. How can that be if Vista code is all new?)
Microsoft has always been far better at bully marketing tactics, stealing code, locking out competitors, and squeezing the customer for every penny they possibly can, than they have ever been at producing a good reliable and secure operating system.
I believe the Borg comparison is still entirely valid.
AT&T was right there with Verizon giving customer's personal information and calling histories/stats/numbers to the Bush administration when they asked - without a warrant.
The only company that I know of that refused to give such information to the Bush administration was Qwest.
Why people are willing to continue to reward a company that violates your privacy in return for special consideration is beyond me. People should drop AT&T and Verizon if it is at all possible.
And shareholder's data. Make a law that puts the money-grubbing CEO and other officer's data in the databases with the customer's data. Then sit back and see what kind of directives management gives to their IT departments to secure data, networks, and workstations. But put their personal data to the same risk as what they deem is sufficient for all the people they don't know or care about. Then see how responsible they get.
Why does it take a data breach happening to some organization to get them to decide to protect information?
Maybe a law should be made that any organization that is trusted with public data be forced to imbed all of their CEO's, CFO's, other officers, management, and shareholder's data in the same databases.
I know that the reason all this data keeps getting exposed is because management would rather save money instead of training their IT staff (if they need it) or just giving them the time to implement good, safe, data handling practices. Put their data on the line too and let's see how they decide about safe data handling practices.
Not to worry - I'm sure our corporate masters are working very hard to come up with the next great ass-fuck for us. I have no doubts at all.
Sorry - meant to say Bill Clinton wasted eight years - not ten...
That they complied with one of Bush's illegal and immoral demands for information without a warrant.
I dropped them cold. I terminated my account. Sold my phone. and switched to Qwest - because they refused the illegal demands.
And all should know - if you can retroactively make illegal acts legal, you can make them illegal again if the whole act of making them legal was illegal - which it is.
This administration is so far from a democracy it is amazing that the American people have stood for it. That said, I have to congratulate the Bush administration for convincing an entire country that black is white, facism is freedom, and the immorality is moral.
Sadly, I think that it is too late for this country, and by extension, the world. The Bush administration has let the real issues, the most dangerous to humanity, fester -- or has actually made them worse. We have lost eight years in working to solve the world's greatest threats - eight years that one day people will look back on and curse that they could have done something and yet did not.
And Bill Clinton also wasted ten years. While not as outright damaging as George Bush, Bill Clinton also threw away a huge opportunity to do good.
This problem is far more common than people think -- especially at smaller companies that are trying to make ends meet.
What I did in one case was to comply with the order and then got the hell out. I needed the time to find another job. I didn't turn them in to SPA or anything but I sometimes wish I had after some wait long enough to not point the finger back at me.
In another instance, I discovered that my predecessor had installed a bunch of copies of software without having the licenses (nowhere near) to cover the installations. I knew my supervisor was (a) a slimeball, and (b) short on money to cover the software. When I told him about the situation, he asked me to find out how much it would cost to make all the software legal so I did. It was too much for him to cover so he decided not to do anything about it.
Not wanting to be associated with illegal software (I can't go into details, but this was a place with oversight and the consequences to being a party to this would mean immediate dismissal), and wanting to cover my butt, I talked to a company rep for the software and asked if there was a way to convert old licenses to new through some kind of upgrade, plus get a discount on a volume buy. I did this without my supervisor's knowledge or permission.
I felt I had no choice. I did not see going to his supervisor as an option as I was relatively new and my supervisor had lots of friends. I did the only thing that I thought I could to cover myself. By contacting the company rep, I alerted the company that there was technically piracy going on with their software. I did it without authority, but I also covered the entity's butt I worked for by owning up to the software company and appearing to be proactive. I covered my organization's butt to our parent organization as we were subject to software audits -- which would have put us (and me) in an extreme corner. I also forced my supervisor to pony up for the illegal software. And I also documented dates, inventories, and anything to make my case just in case someone tried to blame me for the illegal copies.
My supervisor, however, targeted me and cut my position at his very next opportunity and I had to take another position in the organization. Luckily it worked out for the better. He was also eventually targeted and demoted by his supervisor. Maybe I could have gone above him but I didn't know that at the time.
It was a really tough position. I did what I felt I had to do to cover myself and the organization I work for and to force the hand of my supervisor who was quite content to operate with tens of thousands of dollars of illegal software. I had already been through the situation once and didn't feel like doing it again. It also really made me angry that someone would put me in that position when I am an IT professional. It just sucked. I have absolutely no respect for any supervisor who would do that to an employee and if placed in that position in the future, I would probably be even more open about cutting off their dick by documenting, buidling a case, and going as high as I needed to go to get the issue resolved. I realize that sometimes the supervisor is the CEO/director/whatever, and you can't go higher. In such cases I think all you can do is comply to buy time and get the hell out.
I am glad to hear that it won't be Windows. Open software is a much better choice when you are trying to distribute low-cost computers to every child. Windows would have locked them into the Windows upgrade cycle, required frequent net access for updates, and would have just hidden a lot of the internals from the kids.
Open software, while it also requires updates, gives them a much better platform on which to learn. They can explore *nix operating systems, add programs - almost always for free, plus it will build an open software user base around the world. Not that that isn't already happening as more and more countries and companies switch to open source software, but by bringing on a new generation, this will be the push to put open source over the top.
(Apologies to Carl Sagan)
But we are. Every one of us and everything we know around us is made up of star debris. We are all the products of fusion reactions in stars. We are made of atoms that are billions and billions of years old.
We have been deep in space. We have ridden on asteroids, meteorites, comets, and planets.
It's kind of cool to think about it.
Wow, I'm sure that if he was alive, he would discount you as the angry and ineffectual waste of space that you are.
Do you think we could talk him into going there?
I hope this guy doesn't end up on an Al Jazeera video getting his head sawed off with a dull sword. No amount of money is worth that.
I am in IT and I have to take on call. We rotate it. But we also get an extra bump when we are on call - whether we get called in or not. But sometimes we end up spending all night and all weekend having to fix stuff and that does get real old really fast. I had to miss my fiancee's sister's birthday because I was on call and got called in.
Now, management sees the on call pay as an expense they would like to cut. When/if they cut it, I think the on call response is going to get a lot worse. A lot worse.
"Oh, a double-disk failure? Darn..."
You forgot Christopher Pike...
It was basically a manual DNS attack. With so many waiting until the last minute, what do people expect? File at least a day before the deadline. What difference does a day's worth of interest make on the average IRS tax bill? And if people are so concerned about a day's worth of interest, print the damn return and mail it with a check. That way you get a few more days of interest.
I just don't understand the dorks that wait so long they have no options.
Gag. I have two boxes I run XP on (dual boot with Linux) and that's as far as it is ever going to get. I'm off the Microsoft treadmill and doubt I will ever get back on. I can do everything I need to do under XP or Linux - with more and more that I can do under Linux all the time. I don't think I've booted into Windows in a couple of months now - literally.
Adios, Microsoft.
Is pretty damn naive.
With all the uproar over losing troops in Iraq, and all the embarassment that brings to the Bush administration, you can bet everything you own and will ever own that a technically good robot will be deployed instead of people and will be used to target everything strategically significant in a war zone - including people.
It is inevitable.
Let them run a Microsoft OS! Then, not only would they require periodic and untimely reboots, but they would spray spam and DDOS attacks wherever they were deployed.
"Sargent, sir, the latest Microsoft patch, deployed during the robot squad's advance on the target, requires a reboot. Not only that, but there are several zero day exploits that the enemy knows about. The server is telling us there will be an automatic reboot in 30 seconds. What are your orders, sir?"
Wonderful. All we need are even more boxes, running Microsoft "spambot-ready" software, administered by people with no clue how to really protect a system.
Nothing like thousands or millions of always-on bots, filtering keystrokes, launching DDOS attacks, spamming everyone in any e-mail to/from list that happens to pass through.
I for one do not welcome our new incompetent spam-bot non-administrator overlords.