This is a NYTimes issue just as rotten meat is the supermarkets problem--whether or not its because of a rotten vendor. If you go with your attitude, we can never blame anyone-- Honda may get some parts manufactured at a 3rd party foundry, so theyre not to blame for defects! Dell uses Foxconn for their power supplies, so you cant blame Dell for computers that crap out in 2 years! Sony outsources its battery manufacturing to Taiwan, its not THEIR fault the batteries can catch fire, honest!
Um, they tell their current ad network that things are unacceptable and find a new provider? How does a supermarket deal with a meat seller that provides bad meat? Do they ignore the issue or find another vendor?
This IS a free market society, one of the hallmarks is being able to ditch a vendor that costs you money or PR. Its NOT difficult, and NYTimes shouldnt get a pass just cause its not their ad. Its their adspace, its their problem.
Why has noone posted about just using an ubuntu boot disk? Simple removal process tends to be: Use sysinternals autoruns to find what needs to be removed, find them on ubuntu disk, move files to quarantine folder.
Removal is generally done in 20 minutes, and all you need is a usb key with autoruns + an ubuntu disk. (or knoppix, doesnt particularly matter)
And how many make money from giving works away for free? The question isnt whether they were able to give it away, but whether it was commercially viable, which it isnt (in the short term) for those up and coming artists. It may make them money LATER (through publicity) but it makes them nothing now. "Nothing to lose" doesnt mean that the lost sales from giving stuff away will for sure be made up in increased sales later.
To be fair many linux distros (including Ubuntu older than 7.10) would blow up if xorg.conf was missing, or misconfigured, etc. Both the registry and the xorg problems could be fixed with time and patience (ERUNT, repair install, etc).
Theres an option called "Content protection" in blackberry options. Turn it on, and all your data (optionally including contacts) is encrypted-- this can be either 3DES to AES, set by the BES. I am unaware of some magical way of getting past AES encryption short of bruteforcing the password.
Additionally, if your blackberry is stolen and you are worried, theres a nifty "wipe handheld" option in the BES, as well as the ability to remove redirection. Additionally, if your WinMobile or iPhone is stolen, your activesync details are on that phone waiting to compromise other areas (such as OWA). Blackberries dont use activesync, so once the account is removed from the BES, the thief wont be able to recover any login details (unless they break the encryption and find an email or memo with that info in it).
And if what youre saying about encryption is true, then I certainly hope you dont use online banking, or Amazon, or Ebay, or do any sort of online purchases whatsoever.
And from what I've seen end users tend to have no reason at all for never changing. Theyll use Internet Explorer 6 forever and complain about how slow it is, and if you suggest chrome / firefox and they see that its faster they will begin using that, and stick on that forever. People will use what theyre given, and will do their jobs without giving the IT stuff a second thought in most cases.
Google apps is a hell of a lot cheaper in many cases, and can potentially have lower downtime. And if SSL isnt secure, then i think we're all in trouble. As for "owning your data", do you have a citation from the EULA of Google Apps for business to back this up?
Exchange has a lot going for it, but so does Google Apps-- for example, instead of spending $500 (WinServ license) + $20 per WinServ cal + $1100 (exchange license) + $40 per exchange cal + $200 for office (and outlook), you could just sign up for Google Apps. Want a more large-scale setup supporting blackberries? There's a connector for BES. Maintenance costs are literally nil-- that doesnt mean theres no downtime, but historically downtime has been very low.
That said Im not sure of the wisdom in switching from an already-deployed Exchange environment to Google Docs; that seems somewhat backwards.
Or they have no particular reason to use Exchange, except that its Exchange, and that hasnt changed yet. That doesnt mean one solution is better than the other-- ive seen people migrate away from Google Apps because they used gmail IMAP into outlook and wondered why it was awful.
I think it is much easier to teach someone HOW a computer works in linux, since many people KNOW how linux works. It is also easier to tailor windows to the job. And the areas where linux lacks polish can be a good thing as it can challenge the students.
Teaching someone to use windows is NOT teaching them to use a computer. Linux is a FAR better baseline because you can actually get hands on and deep-down into how computers work. It does NOT take the span of a child's education to learn to use windows-- thats something they could learn in the span of a college orientation. What would you rather have-- spend millions on windows licensing so that your students are taught the easiest to learn and least educational OS, or get free OS's that can be tailored to the need (you could make a simple "English" distro, "Math" distro, etc) and can actually teach the student somethign about the software choices out there?
The goal in school is to challenge students and make them think, not shove the lowest common denominator at them and then wonder why theyre retarded enough to get malware down the road.
If you actually read those stories you linked, youll see that its not saying the cops planted the cocaine they found, but rather that the field tests were either incorrect or fabricated. There IS a difference, you know--one is an innocent person being framed, and another is a possibly guilty person having their rights violated.
Some sage products blew up if IE7 was installed a few years ago, and one or two Server 2003 updates caused the serverside database to consume 100% cpu. Then theres SP3 which rendered some computers unbootable, SP2 which caused IT headaches all over the place, etc etc.
WSUS was created for a reason, you know, some updates really can blow things up.
Cant you switch it to the oldstyle task bar? Not everyone needs to see the title, and if you are just using outlook with 9 windows, a media player, firefox with 7 tabs, and 10 other programs, the new taskbar saves a ton of realestate. I dont need to have the full title on my firefox button, i already know its firefox.
Just because it doesnt work for you doesnt mean its bad, and the window management shortcuts are much nicer this time around (win+# for taskbar min/maximize, win+left/right to move the window, etc).
Thats probably because you used some silly setting like Gutmann. Just use pseudorandom and be done with it. (esp since gutmann isnt really relevant anymore....)
Pseudorandom wipe can apparently do an 80gb drive (hooked up via usb) in about 40 minutes.
If youre doing multiple passes, you may want to make sure that doing it via overwrites (rather than destruction) is really good enough for your data:)
Windows mobile is especially bad, this is not your standard level of failure. When it takes me 4 clicks to even begin dialing a number on my "phone", and it takes about 15 seconds for the system to catch up, we have issues. Its especially a problem when a much less powerful blackberry is much more responsive and useable for everything except the web.
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This is a NYTimes issue just as rotten meat is the supermarkets problem--whether or not its because of a rotten vendor. If you go with your attitude, we can never blame anyone-- Honda may get some parts manufactured at a 3rd party foundry, so theyre not to blame for defects! Dell uses Foxconn for their power supplies, so you cant blame Dell for computers that crap out in 2 years! Sony outsources its battery manufacturing to Taiwan, its not THEIR fault the batteries can catch fire, honest!
and a lot of Vista users would be suspicious if it looks like XP.
You really think so?
Um, they tell their current ad network that things are unacceptable and find a new provider? How does a supermarket deal with a meat seller that provides bad meat? Do they ignore the issue or find another vendor?
This IS a free market society, one of the hallmarks is being able to ditch a vendor that costs you money or PR. Its NOT difficult, and NYTimes shouldnt get a pass just cause its not their ad. Its their adspace, its their problem.
wrong slash. Linux root is /, since we're nitpicking here, same as the slashes used for slashdot and the rest of the web.
Why has noone posted about just using an ubuntu boot disk? Simple removal process tends to be: Use sysinternals autoruns to find what needs to be removed, find them on ubuntu disk, move files to quarantine folder. Removal is generally done in 20 minutes, and all you need is a usb key with autoruns + an ubuntu disk. (or knoppix, doesnt particularly matter)
And how many make money from giving works away for free? The question isnt whether they were able to give it away, but whether it was commercially viable, which it isnt (in the short term) for those up and coming artists. It may make them money LATER (through publicity) but it makes them nothing now. "Nothing to lose" doesnt mean that the lost sales from giving stuff away will for sure be made up in increased sales later.
Penumbra DOES have DRM last i checked, at least on linux. It is unobtrusive and sane, and i have no issues with it.
To be fair many linux distros (including Ubuntu older than 7.10) would blow up if xorg.conf was missing, or misconfigured, etc. Both the registry and the xorg problems could be fixed with time and patience (ERUNT, repair install, etc).
Theres an option called "Content protection" in blackberry options. Turn it on, and all your data (optionally including contacts) is encrypted-- this can be either 3DES to AES, set by the BES. I am unaware of some magical way of getting past AES encryption short of bruteforcing the password.
Additionally, if your blackberry is stolen and you are worried, theres a nifty "wipe handheld" option in the BES, as well as the ability to remove redirection. Additionally, if your WinMobile or iPhone is stolen, your activesync details are on that phone waiting to compromise other areas (such as OWA). Blackberries dont use activesync, so once the account is removed from the BES, the thief wont be able to recover any login details (unless they break the encryption and find an email or memo with that info in it).
And if what youre saying about encryption is true, then I certainly hope you dont use online banking, or Amazon, or Ebay, or do any sort of online purchases whatsoever.
And from what I've seen end users tend to have no reason at all for never changing. Theyll use Internet Explorer 6 forever and complain about how slow it is, and if you suggest chrome / firefox and they see that its faster they will begin using that, and stick on that forever. People will use what theyre given, and will do their jobs without giving the IT stuff a second thought in most cases.
Google apps is a hell of a lot cheaper in many cases, and can potentially have lower downtime. And if SSL isnt secure, then i think we're all in trouble. As for "owning your data", do you have a citation from the EULA of Google Apps for business to back this up?
Exchange has a lot going for it, but so does Google Apps-- for example, instead of spending $500 (WinServ license) + $20 per WinServ cal + $1100 (exchange license) + $40 per exchange cal + $200 for office (and outlook), you could just sign up for Google Apps. Want a more large-scale setup supporting blackberries? There's a connector for BES. Maintenance costs are literally nil-- that doesnt mean theres no downtime, but historically downtime has been very low.
That said Im not sure of the wisdom in switching from an already-deployed Exchange environment to Google Docs; that seems somewhat backwards.
Or they have no particular reason to use Exchange, except that its Exchange, and that hasnt changed yet. That doesnt mean one solution is better than the other-- ive seen people migrate away from Google Apps because they used gmail IMAP into outlook and wondered why it was awful.
The amish dont drink coffee? Really?
I think it is much easier to teach someone HOW a computer works in linux, since many people KNOW how linux works. It is also easier to tailor windows to the job. And the areas where linux lacks polish can be a good thing as it can challenge the students.
Teaching someone to use windows is NOT teaching them to use a computer. Linux is a FAR better baseline because you can actually get hands on and deep-down into how computers work. It does NOT take the span of a child's education to learn to use windows-- thats something they could learn in the span of a college orientation. What would you rather have-- spend millions on windows licensing so that your students are taught the easiest to learn and least educational OS, or get free OS's that can be tailored to the need (you could make a simple "English" distro, "Math" distro, etc) and can actually teach the student somethign about the software choices out there?
The goal in school is to challenge students and make them think, not shove the lowest common denominator at them and then wonder why theyre retarded enough to get malware down the road.
Thats not what a Catch-22 is.
Theyd probably blame the hammer on viruses too.
If you actually read those stories you linked, youll see that its not saying the cops planted the cocaine they found, but rather that the field tests were either incorrect or fabricated. There IS a difference, you know--one is an innocent person being framed, and another is a possibly guilty person having their rights violated.
Some sage products blew up if IE7 was installed a few years ago, and one or two Server 2003 updates caused the serverside database to consume 100% cpu. Then theres SP3 which rendered some computers unbootable, SP2 which caused IT headaches all over the place, etc etc.
WSUS was created for a reason, you know, some updates really can blow things up.
Compare the number of viruses dealt with on vista to XP, there does seem to be a difference.
Cant you switch it to the oldstyle task bar? Not everyone needs to see the title, and if you are just using outlook with 9 windows, a media player, firefox with 7 tabs, and 10 other programs, the new taskbar saves a ton of realestate. I dont need to have the full title on my firefox button, i already know its firefox.
Just because it doesnt work for you doesnt mean its bad, and the window management shortcuts are much nicer this time around (win+# for taskbar min/maximize, win+left/right to move the window, etc).
Well, beer does make you cool, noone can deny that,...
Raise the drive to the curie point. All magnetic domains are destroyed, and recovery is impossible with currently known methods.
Thats probably because you used some silly setting like Gutmann. Just use pseudorandom and be done with it. (esp since gutmann isnt really relevant anymore....)
:)
Pseudorandom wipe can apparently do an 80gb drive (hooked up via usb) in about 40 minutes.
If youre doing multiple passes, you may want to make sure that doing it via overwrites (rather than destruction) is really good enough for your data
Windows mobile is especially bad, this is not your standard level of failure. When it takes me 4 clicks to even begin dialing a number on my "phone", and it takes about 15 seconds for the system to catch up, we have issues. Its especially a problem when a much less powerful blackberry is much more responsive and useable for everything except the web.