I've just recently noticed that some rather smart companies have started adapting to the new advertising environment and advertise at the theater before the movie starts. Now, this is pretty commonplace for the "Go buy some $6 popcorn and a $4 soda to wash it down" and advertising slideshow that we've all come to know and love (and show up 5 minutes late to the movie to skip), but the new plan seems to be to drop actual TV-like advertising on the very captive audience. While I see this as an excellent adaptation, I believe that I've already paid my $20 to get in to see this movie, and find it quite offensive when it takes place. When did it become the legislative responsibility to support your business model?
If you're using Windoze machines, putty is small, fast, and simple. Even includes a scriptable executable to stuff into your batch scripts. Also comes with psftp, pscp, and pageant (ssh-agent with some key management).
We used VNC for several years on our servers, but when the time came to evaluate it for remote desktop control (troubleshoot from home via SSH tunneled VNC), it fell pretty short. We eventually decided to go with Remote Administrator for a couple of reasons:
1. cheap ($700 site license)
2. more efficient than VNC (10-30% utilization on our web servers vs VNC's 30+)
3. easier to setup and configure using the same OpenSSH tunneling setups
Radmin has proven to be a very effective "middle-of-the-road" solution between freeware VNC and big-$ remote access solutions.
we are talking about a state of war, right? then win dammit! This namby pamby wishy washy crap is what got our asses kicked in Vietnam...Yes, try to minimize civilian casualties. BUT, is the best way to do that to NOT use weapons that will end the conflict in the fastest, most efficient way? It takes your average person several days to die of starvation, but only a couple of minutes to die by bullet wound...
>>As it stands, Gates' legacy has just been written by Judge Jackson, but it could have been radically different. Think of the software a company with $22 billion in the bank (Gates himself has close to $50 billion, at least as of this morning) might have created, the advances it could have made in information technology. Imagine the computers it could have given away, the schools it could have equipped, the tech support it could have provided to the millions of newcomers struggling to get connected, the innovations it could have funded, the programming codes it could have shared, the small, struggling entrepeneurs it could have fostered rather than squash. These 2 paragraphs interest me a great deal. As many celebrities get "Public Service" instead of stiff jail penalties, why not choose that route if MS is found guility. Instead of stiff fines or penalties paid to the gov't/"competitors", require that they build and equip schools with computers (with Linux as the desktop OS) or fund research in some area like Open Source development. Kind of a wishy washy thing to wish for, but it seems that it would be far more productive than some sort of lump sum penalty paid into the bottomless pit that is the government...
ok folks, we all know it's going on...the NSA has been in Americans back pockets for years...why would this shock anyone? BTW, has anyone noticed the sudden diedown of the hoopla over the proposed "modem tax"? And one of the big problems with that scheme was the fact that it is very difficult to determine which are voice calls and which are modem calls. What would someone like to bet that the NSA has (or is rapidly developing) some nifty technology to fit right in that little crack?
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I've just recently noticed that some rather smart companies have started adapting to the new advertising environment and advertise at the theater before the movie starts. Now, this is pretty commonplace for the "Go buy some $6 popcorn and a $4 soda to wash it down" and advertising slideshow that we've all come to know and love (and show up 5 minutes late to the movie to skip), but the new plan seems to be to drop actual TV-like advertising on the very captive audience. While I see this as an excellent adaptation, I believe that I've already paid my $20 to get in to see this movie, and find it quite offensive when it takes place.
When did it become the legislative responsibility to support your business model?
If you're using Windoze machines, putty is small, fast, and simple. Even includes a scriptable executable to stuff into your batch scripts. Also comes with psftp, pscp, and pageant (ssh-agent with some key management).
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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/put
We used VNC for several years on our servers, but when the time came to evaluate it for remote desktop control (troubleshoot from home via SSH tunneled VNC), it fell pretty short. We eventually decided to go with Remote Administrator for a couple of reasons: 1. cheap ($700 site license) 2. more efficient than VNC (10-30% utilization on our web servers vs VNC's 30+) 3. easier to setup and configure using the same OpenSSH tunneling setups Radmin has proven to be a very effective "middle-of-the-road" solution between freeware VNC and big-$ remote access solutions.
Just go Start > Run > "command"
we are talking about a state of war, right? then win dammit! This namby pamby wishy washy crap is what got our asses kicked in Vietnam...Yes, try to minimize civilian casualties. BUT, is the best way to do that to NOT use weapons that will end the conflict in the fastest, most efficient way? It takes your average person several days to die of starvation, but only a couple of minutes to die by bullet wound...
>>As it stands, Gates' legacy has just been written by Judge Jackson, but it could have been radically different. Think of the software a company with $22 billion in the bank (Gates himself has close to $50 billion, at least as of this morning) might have created, the advances it could have made in information technology. Imagine the computers it could have given away, the schools it could have equipped, the tech support it could have provided to the millions of newcomers struggling to get connected, the innovations it could have funded, the programming codes it could have shared, the small, struggling entrepeneurs it could have fostered rather than squash. These 2 paragraphs interest me a great deal. As many celebrities get "Public Service" instead of stiff jail penalties, why not choose that route if MS is found guility. Instead of stiff fines or penalties paid to the gov't/"competitors", require that they build and equip schools with computers (with Linux as the desktop OS) or fund research in some area like Open Source development. Kind of a wishy washy thing to wish for, but it seems that it would be far more productive than some sort of lump sum penalty paid into the bottomless pit that is the government...
ok folks, we all know it's going on...the NSA has been in Americans back pockets for years...why would this shock anyone? BTW, has anyone noticed the sudden diedown of the hoopla over the proposed "modem tax"? And one of the big problems with that scheme was the fact that it is very difficult to determine which are voice calls and which are modem calls. What would someone like to bet that the NSA has (or is rapidly developing) some nifty technology to fit right in that little crack?