If by "stepping off the grid" you mean "gone on a two week bender" then, yeah. Heh, which segues into an old riddle: Q: What did Abraham Lincoln say after a 3 month bender? A: I freed who?
FTA: Mr Chertoff said yesterday that it was vital to seek compatibility,
holding up the example of the "video war" of 25 years ago, when VHS and
Betamax were in fierce competition to win the status of industry standard
for video recording systems.
If video compatibility is such a big
issue why do they keep 2 main video standards (PAL/NTSC) and continue to put
region encoding on DVDs? That lame "video war" comparison is just to appease
the public into accepting a "New World Order" style of international
identification. Once the US and Great Britain are locked in, it will be
harder for other countries to resist if they want unencumbered
travel for their citizens.
ZyXel has an access point with a small printer (like a cash register) which will print out access codes good for X minutes (programmable by the operator) for each tap of a button. We have one at work we were trying out for guest workers but haven't put it in operation yet.
We also do the networking/VPN/etc between 3 remote locations with another ~40-50 machines.:) There are 2 full time Windows people, the other two (myself incl) do the unixy stuff and networking.
That doesn't address the issue as to why those types of applications are needed in the first place. Microsoft can't fix the house of cards that is Windows so they bought out AV and spyware companies. Also remember that MS is thinking of making these services subscription based so the end user is still shafted if they decide not to pay the MS tithe.
Hey, I still have a Wintel box at home but it's used only for gaming.
Administering Windows XP in a corporate environment isn't that hard.
With what ratio of geeks-users? My workplace has a lot of Linux users and a fair amount of Macs. We have 4 full time people for ~300 machines at this site. If we were all Windows we'd need more people.
Yes, there are security problems with windows, but no, you have to be a giant fucktard newbie to actually ever be affected by them.
So not installing a third party firewall, a third party antivirus scanner and third party spyware software makes one a "giant fucktard newbie"? Perhaps you should address why all these third party applications are needed just to give a Wintel box a basic level of security?
While you point to Yoda as an example, you fail to mention Gollum, who, while CGI, needed a live actor (Andy Serkis) to give animators an idea as to how Gollum would move and act.
Sure, and as studios build up libraries of movements they can use those in place of real people wearing suits with reflective points on them. The original Star Wars movie, back only in 1977, used models on sticks and fancy filmwork to achieve the goal. I won't bother arguing on music or other tangents.
Electronics replacing a human on both film and audio track? It will happen, when is the unknown.
Voice synthesis is getting better all the time. One day there won't be a need for "voice actors" just as CGI is replacing actors and 'muppets' (eg Yoda)
I'm really suprised there isn't an ergonomic version available. A recommendation of the split keyboard from a friend (hi Nugget) saved me from wrist surgery ~6.5 years ago. I swear by them now.
A user of my BBS was nailed for using Silver Bells (free LD calls from an Atari) and a letter I wrote to 2600 when it was paper and staples generated a lot of calls to the system. Maybe that's deep in your memory.
ObPlea: if anyone has old copies, circa 1984-85(?) of 2600 Magazine please email me. I'd love a scan of that page.
Yeah, it seems a bit goofy but back then it was mainly text (and Apple disk images;)) I had moving over the wires. As long as the text came faster than I could read it I was happy.
Old, true story: When I had my BBS running (Demented Data Systems [R.I.P.]) and I had the smokin' 1200 baud modem running I decided to give a hard time to those that ran 300 baud. When they connected they had a lloonngg bit of text on the fruit fly I dutily typed in from an encyclopedia which scrolled by before the password prompt hit.
arg. I should clarify things... I'm not saying bouncing through the ISPs mail server is ideal, it isn't; but it's a shitty solution to an even shitter Microsoft problem (zombies, spam relays, etc)
It's not just ISPs that bounce mail from (semi-)dynamic IP addresses. Many companies uses various blacklists which have those IPs listed (I use one myself). It's not ideal to go through the ISPs mail server but it works well enough. As to "Carnivored SMTP": that's retarded. Plaintext mail gets sifted through regardless of source.
(Didn't realize I was on your foes list, thanks!:P )
It'd be fun to watch for the nostalgia value. Hordes of 80's greasy, long haired geeks with huge glasses (myself included:)) freaking out about how much faster 1200 baud is over the old 110/300.
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Sheets is a boring Microsoft apologist. Google for him.
If by "stepping off the grid" you mean "gone on a two week bender" then, yeah. Heh, which segues into an old riddle:
Q: What did Abraham Lincoln say after a 3 month bender?
A: I freed who?
There are Windows antivirus programs for Linux/*BSD/unix. They're quite useful for samba servers.
FTA: Mr Chertoff said yesterday that it was vital to seek compatibility, holding up the example of the "video war" of 25 years ago, when VHS and Betamax were in fierce competition to win the status of industry standard for video recording systems.
If video compatibility is such a big issue why do they keep 2 main video standards (PAL/NTSC) and continue to put region encoding on DVDs? That lame "video war" comparison is just to appease the public into accepting a "New World Order" style of international identification. Once the US and Great Britain are locked in, it will be harder for other countries to resist if they want unencumbered travel for their citizens.
EA peers into the crystal ball...
ZyXel has an access point with a small printer (like a cash register) which will print out access codes good for X minutes (programmable by the operator) for each tap of a button. We have one at work we were trying out for guest workers but haven't put it in operation yet.
The Matrix rocked. All subsequent efforts to whore out the name have sucked.
While becoming a nun might be an extreme way to avoid senility,
So most slashdotters will keep their sanity into old age if they only undergo a gender change operation?
We also do the networking/VPN/etc between 3 remote locations with another ~40-50 machines. :) There are 2 full time Windows people, the other two (myself incl) do the unixy stuff and networking.
Remember that piece of crap that OS 9 was? Remember that piece of crap Red Hat 5.0 was?
Heh, I rather liked OS9 but my RH5.0 box was my first (and only*) machine that was r00ted. Thank goodness for OpenBSD.
* That I know of.
That doesn't address the issue as to why those types of applications are needed in the first place. Microsoft can't fix the house of cards that is Windows so they bought out AV and spyware companies. Also remember that MS is thinking of making these services subscription based so the end user is still shafted if they decide not to pay the MS tithe.
Hey, I still have a Wintel box at home but it's used only for gaming.
Administering Windows XP in a corporate environment isn't that hard.
With what ratio of geeks-users? My workplace has a lot of Linux users and a fair amount of Macs. We have 4 full time people for ~300 machines at this site. If we were all Windows we'd need more people.
Yes, there are security problems with windows, but no, you have to be a giant fucktard newbie to actually ever be affected by them.
So not installing a third party firewall, a third party antivirus scanner and third party spyware software makes one a "giant fucktard newbie"? Perhaps you should address why all these third party applications are needed just to give a Wintel box a basic level of security?
Damn.. the FBI needs some better web designer. The site looks like crap and could cause a seizure.
It's probably the same person that designed slashdot's IT scheme.
DISCLAIMER: downloading only legal things, of course.
While you point to Yoda as an example, you fail to mention Gollum, who, while CGI, needed a live actor (Andy Serkis) to give animators an idea as to how Gollum would move and act.
Sure, and as studios build up libraries of movements they can use those in place of real people wearing suits with reflective points on them. The original Star Wars movie, back only in 1977, used models on sticks and fancy filmwork to achieve the goal. I won't bother arguing on music or other tangents.
Electronics replacing a human on both film and audio track? It will happen, when is the unknown.
Voice synthesis is getting better all the time. One day there won't be a need for "voice actors" just as CGI is replacing actors and 'muppets' (eg Yoda)
I'm really suprised there isn't an ergonomic version available. A recommendation of the split keyboard from a friend (hi Nugget) saved me from wrist surgery ~6.5 years ago. I swear by them now.
A user of my BBS was nailed for using Silver Bells (free LD calls from an Atari) and a letter I wrote to 2600 when it was paper and staples generated a lot of calls to the system. Maybe that's deep in your memory.
ObPlea: if anyone has old copies, circa 1984-85(?) of 2600 Magazine please email me. I'd love a scan of that page.
this is all google turns up and that was my BBS :) Same one?
hrmm... I am redesigning the whole site... ;)
Old, true story: When I had my BBS running (Demented Data Systems [R.I.P.]) and I had the smokin' 1200 baud modem running I decided to give a hard time to those that ran 300 baud. When they connected they had a lloonngg bit of text on the fruit fly I dutily typed in from an encyclopedia which scrolled by before the password prompt hit.
:)
I was an asshole even then.
arg. I should clarify things... I'm not saying bouncing through the ISPs mail server is ideal, it isn't; but it's a shitty solution to an even shitter Microsoft problem (zombies, spam relays, etc)
It's not just ISPs that bounce mail from (semi-)dynamic IP addresses. Many companies uses various blacklists which have those IPs listed (I use one myself). It's not ideal to go through the ISPs mail server but it works well enough. As to "Carnivored SMTP": that's retarded. Plaintext mail gets sifted through regardless of source.
(Didn't realize I was on your foes list, thanks!
It'd be fun to watch for the nostalgia value. Hordes of 80's greasy, long haired geeks with huge glasses (myself included