No need to ask for justification. If your customer knows enough to ask for a port to be openned, open it. Even if 20% of your user base asked to have all ports open to make them feel 3l33t your still preventing problems on the other 80%. And the first couple of times you turn off connections to one of those 20% because they are spewing Blaster or something they will go back to default block.
Were talking about auto blocking all but a hand full of ports for people who can't differentiate between Office and Windows not guys who are setting up Sendmail.
And Sendmail?!? Are you kidding? Is there any more arcane piece of software to set up properly in wide spread use. And kind of over kill for the vast majority of people. It's like using Photoshop as an image viewer.
Actually it about testing. You need some kind of OS to test that the machine actually works after you build it. Yah you could boot off of a CD or something but that doesn't test whether that particuliar machine will boot off it's HD. You want the machine to be able to boot imediately before going out the door.
The commissions on both sides are routinely more than even Microsoft's inflated retail prices on just about any of their software. When I stand to pull in several grand I'll spend 30 minutes with a customer making sure they don't/can't back out.
How the smeg is this insightful? If this fool had taken 30 seconds out to read the article instead of going for first post Karma points he'd find that the click through is on the BIOS not windows. Geez.
Sounds like you have only two choices: Suck it up and be unhappy at times or move on to a new position. If you don't have the support of management (by action not words) you won't make any meaniful changes.
Be realistic, how many of those people do you think hang out on/.? Hands up all you feminazies, radical fundies and female geeks who never, ever consume pornography in any flavour.
A 120mph crash in a '73 duster doesn't leave anything to donate.:)
And only a couple miles, what did you do, let up on the gas?:) A two mile a minute head start on him should have been insurmountable. Even if he was driving a 69 Polara 440 pursuit and we give him only a minute to react and then reach it's top speed of 147 mph. Your now two miles ahead and he's only catching up at less than half a mile a minute. Going to take him at least five minutes to catch you. A Crown Vic (128 mph) would have taken 12 minutes.
I'm sure one of the consumer affairs reporters at one of the TV stations in town would be interested in finding out that the major ISP in town is letting their users' passwords and other info get leeched.
They probably wouldn't touch the story. DNS is too technical, heck I'd have to explain this story to some of the support people I've worked with and then a few of them still wouldn't get it. Joe six pack doesn't have a chance, especially since they'd have to achive understanding in the few minutes the medium allows.
The disengagement is a property of the torque converter.
This is got nothing to do with the TC. It's because the transmission only has one pump in it, direct driven by the engine. Lots of early automatic transmissions had two pumps, one driven by the engine the other by the driveshaft. You could push start those autos.
The long run downsides are why I believe copy protection runs in cycles. In the extreme case you need a new partition for every software you want to use and the populous revolts.
Look at the out cry about quick tax. They lost a lot of customers. Users who had been loyal quick tax users for years were bringing me all sorts of weird tax software to install. All of these software titles had one obvious thing in common: No anti piracy measures.
Dongles would be great if you only needed one. Imagine how many you need hanging off the back of your machines just for the programs you use on a weekly basis.
More and more network licenced software is coming with dongles. My poor licence server has 11 dongles hanging off the back. Each dongle seems to require a slightly different version of Flex or some weird custom licence software.
And just to add to the joy some dongles don't like each other. We had to install a second parrallel port to seperate them. I'll be so glad when the piracy counter measures cycle swings back the other way.
At least we don't have to deal with that brain dead protection where the company physically damaged the original floppy media. Back in the days when you ran the game off the floppy. Or Rogue's copy protection that prevented you from running the game on an AT because the machine was to fast and it thought you were coping it.
You think the IIIsi is power hungry? Try an original LaserJet. I took down a 24 unit apartment block (with admitidly substandard wiring) the first time I fired mine up. Still using it today. It's an old mini computer printer, finding the right SERIAL printer cable was quite the chore:)
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Six dollars a pound? That seems kind of high. I can by refined table sugar for less than $6 a pound canadian.
No need to ask for justification. If your customer knows enough to ask for a port to be openned, open it. Even if 20% of your user base asked to have all ports open to make them feel 3l33t your still preventing problems on the other 80%. And the first couple of times you turn off connections to one of those 20% because they are spewing Blaster or something they will go back to default block.
Were talking about auto blocking all but a hand full of ports for people who can't differentiate between Office and Windows not guys who are setting up Sendmail.
And Sendmail?!? Are you kidding? Is there any more arcane piece of software to set up properly in wide spread use. And kind of over kill for the vast majority of people. It's like using Photoshop as an image viewer.
As of this posting it's a 3 ! :)
Actually it about testing. You need some kind of OS to test that the machine actually works after you build it. Yah you could boot off of a CD or something but that doesn't test whether that particuliar machine will boot off it's HD. You want the machine to be able to boot imediately before going out the door.
The notebooks are illustrated. All the text is in Time enough for love.
Spent hours lookig for it before I found the story.
Ya but what's the joke now that the war is over and the occu^H^H^H^H rebuilding is under way?
The commissions on both sides are routinely more than even Microsoft's inflated retail prices on just about any of their software. When I stand to pull in several grand I'll spend 30 minutes with a customer making sure they don't/can't back out.
How the smeg is this insightful? If this fool had taken 30 seconds out to read the article instead of going for first post Karma points he'd find that the click through is on the BIOS not windows. Geez.
Sounds like you have only two choices: Suck it up and be unhappy at times or move on to a new position. If you don't have the support of management (by action not words) you won't make any meaniful changes.
Yah but is it redheads or blonds?
Yah how much longer before we hit seven digits. Who would have thunk this thing would have so much staying power.
Be realistic, how many of those people do you think hang out on /.? Hands up all you feminazies, radical fundies and female geeks who never, ever consume pornography in any flavour.
A 120mph crash in a '73 duster doesn't leave anything to donate. :)
:) A two mile a minute head start on him should have been insurmountable. Even if he was driving a 69 Polara 440 pursuit and we give him only a minute to react and then reach it's top speed of 147 mph. Your now two miles ahead and he's only catching up at less than half a mile a minute. Going to take him at least five minutes to catch you. A Crown Vic (128 mph) would have taken 12 minutes.
:D
And only a couple miles, what did you do, let up on the gas?
Kids these days, no sense of adventure
Umm ... No command line is not a feature.
No problem, 50yrs from now $500 will probably buy you a happy meal. Unless they indexed the payments to inflation.
If only because I don't want to see most people naked regardless of what broad group they may belong to.
But note that the manufacture won't be taking you to court (as in a EULA case) but the goverment who has a specific law against using Lysol as a drug.
'Course the differences aren't something I'd like to differentiate to a series of judges :)
I'm sure one of the consumer affairs reporters at one of the TV stations in town would be interested in finding out that the major ISP in town is letting their users' passwords and other info get leeched.
They probably wouldn't touch the story. DNS is too technical, heck I'd have to explain this story to some of the support people I've worked with and then a few of them still wouldn't get it. Joe six pack doesn't have a chance, especially since they'd have to achive understanding in the few minutes the medium allows.
The disengagement is a property of the torque converter.
This is got nothing to do with the TC. It's because the transmission only has one pump in it, direct driven by the engine. Lots of early automatic transmissions had two pumps, one driven by the engine the other by the driveshaft. You could push start those autos.
The long run downsides are why I believe copy protection runs in cycles. In the extreme case you need a new partition for every software you want to use and the populous revolts.
Look at the out cry about quick tax. They lost a lot of customers. Users who had been loyal quick tax users for years were bringing me all sorts of weird tax software to install. All of these software titles had one obvious thing in common: No anti piracy measures.
The advantage being you CAN collect them over time instead of having to pony up the cash for the whole season in one transaction.
Dongles would be great if you only needed one. Imagine how many you need hanging off the back of your machines just for the programs you use on a weekly basis.
More and more network licenced software is coming with dongles. My poor licence server has 11 dongles hanging off the back. Each dongle seems to require a slightly different version of Flex or some weird custom licence software.
And just to add to the joy some dongles don't like each other. We had to install a second parrallel port to seperate them. I'll be so glad when the piracy counter measures cycle swings back the other way.
At least we don't have to deal with that brain dead protection where the company physically damaged the original floppy media. Back in the days when you ran the game off the floppy. Or Rogue's copy protection that prevented you from running the game on an AT because the machine was to fast and it thought you were coping it.
You think the IIIsi is power hungry? Try an original LaserJet. I took down a 24 unit apartment block (with admitidly substandard wiring) the first time I fired mine up. Still using it today. It's an old mini computer printer, finding the right SERIAL printer cable was quite the chore :)