One of the first things we do with a new Mac here is plug a Microsoft or Logitech USB scroll mouse (user's choice) in, and we put the original mouse away. Probably oughta ebay those.
I don't know about all the apps, but all the basic stuff finder, browser, etc) make use of extra buttons if you do.
I think the last upgrade was the first one I've done where most of my extensions still worked. Ionly use a handful, but I hate having to wait for them to show up and then reload them each time. I expect that in the 0.x releases, but after that, it shouldn't happen with most extensions until you jump major level numbers.
I don't remember if I had to reload the theme I use or not, because that's pretty minor to me. But it's a huge deal for Joe and Jane User, so it needs to work the same way extensions should.
1) Many houses and apartments are not wired the way
you think; all the outlets in one room may not be
on the same breaker. Other rooms may have outlets
on that breaker. Lights may or may not be on the
outlet with that breaker. IOW, you would need to
test thoroughly, and probably do some rewiring.
And you still might miss something. 2) If you miswire anything and the house burns down,
your insurance may not cover you. You'll need to
check what the code is where you live and look into
inspections. Getting a licensed electrician involved
is a good idea. 3) You don't want to plug your vacuum cleaner into the
output side of your UPS; not great for either one
of them. Sooner or later, something like that will
happen. 4) If you have a laser printer, startup surges can be
huge; not a good idea to be on the UPS.
There are others, but this should be enough. I have to go along with the people who receommended running one (or however many) separate outlets for the UPS. These can be current or new outlets wired to the UPS and *clearly labeled*. Maybe use red covers or something, with a label "Computer equipment only" or "Ask Fred before plugging anything in here". Of course, you'd have to change your name to Fred.... Depending on who could possibly be plugging things in, you could even consider switching to no normal outlets; hardwire some power strips into a junction box, and bolt them underneath the desks the equipment sits on. The biggest problem with that is moving the desks.
And finally, what happens when you move? You need to make sure this isn't too hard to reverse, or consider what happens if you leave it. You don't want someone coming after you with an axe or lawyer later.
Here in Texas, "old" means you can recollect when the news took days, weeks or months ta get here, dependin' on where it was comin' from. It means ya remember the time ya saw Jesse James and stayed outa his way, or how it felt when ya heard about the Alamo. It means gettin all excited when the railroads brought the tracks in. It means moseyin' takes longer than it usedta.
So all you young whippersnappers out there who think old has somethin' ta do with them dang books or buildins, think again.
Now gather round while I search for ma teeth, and I'll larn ya bout how I made friends with the Commanche, and the time we stole General Custer's clothes while he was asleepin!
And the woinner of the "Losing Face" award is...
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[Since we're talking about ``a transplanted face being rejected and sloughing away'']...Michael Jackson!
Yes, the discussion linked to is far better than most/. discussions these days. It reminds me of a more idyllic/. time, when the hapy dinosaurs danced about the net.
While I disagree with Scott on most of the tab issues, I thought it was a great article. And it was really cool to se ethat he, Asa and the others are already discussing these thins (at the above-ref'd link) in a way that should engender improvements.
OK, let's look at actual time invested in each FS over 10 years...
ResierFS = what? 50 man years? 100 man years? WinFS =~ 10K man years? 100k man years?
Both at 10 years old. But... Some 10 year olds are fairly mature while some are essentially two year olds still running around yelling "No!", just in bigger bodies.
Nobody cares. Well, a bunch of lawyers care, and a few anal retentive types, and about three people who did calculations on how much space they should have and didn't bother to look at reality.
Even if you aren't a troll, you should be modded into troll heck (Phil, where are you with that pitchspoon?) for propagating this silliness.
If you really, really think this is important, then I really, really think you need a month at the beach. [I know I do, but for different reasons...]
I have it on good authority that some of the most impoartant items are missing:
1) How to determine caffeine / worker ratios, where to put the coffee pot and soda machines, whether and how much to charge, and a list o vendors who still deliver Jolt. 2) Air lock standards so you can crank up a stereo in the machine room loud enough to drown out the machine noise, without irritating fellow workers in cubes, managers walking around, and customers waiting in the lobby with different musical preferences. 3) Minimal standards for protection against Slashdot Effect.
hence the document is about as valuable as most New orleans real estate at the moment.
One of the main reasons a lot of companies were afraid of GNU software in the early days (as recently as the mid 90s, maybe even today) was fear of just this. While OSS has a lot more inertia and acceptance, and the GPL and its drivers have certainly helped in that arena, trying to force this on companies would be a death knell.
It would be seen as attempting to force communism down the companies' throats. That'll play in a few countries, but not in many.
I actually still use a "lab book" for many notes. I tell users to send email to the SA mailing list for all tasks; those, the SA internal responses and the final user responses (plus other, related emails) all go in an SA folder. Each year I start a new one and archive the old one. They're available for grep'ing for whatever text I need to find. Finally, I moved the task list from the white board (so I could do more than the 10 hot topics) into a web interface/simple database I threw together with mySql and phpMyAdmin.
Anything anyone else needs to know about goes into an email and/or onto the internal web pages.
Well, they have a few things in common. But every idiot and his pet rat seem to be blogging, and the vast, *vast* majority of it isn't worth reading, except maybe by friends and some family.
The quality of the average open source project is far better than the average blog, and far more useful to many people.
You might as well claim the Spac Shuttle and the personal bicycle have a lot in common because they both help people go places.
``First of all, KDE is still ridden with [Ok][Cancel]-buttons. These are sooo 1992-like and should be replaced with verbs, like they have correctly done with [Add to panel] in one of the screenshots. This should all be changed, and no new dialogs should be accepted until they confirm.''
That's just pure evil. Consistency is absolutely key in a GUI. If you're going to use different verb pairs for everything, you might as well use different languages for every panel as well.
Swahili, Yankee, Japanese, Portuguese, French, and Texan, anyone?
Be careful of strangers unless in public (e.g., be wary of taxis); see #3 above.
You will find a lot of hospitable, giving people; they may be a bit offended if you reject their hospitality. This can conflict with #1 here, but that's life.
Finding a local mentor will help immensely.
Expect to not be able to find a lot of things you can easily get here, such as PopTarts.
Talk to a travel bureau about clothing, etc.
Caveat: I haven't been personally, but have several friends who have been within the past year. These suggestions are based on their stories of their trips.
...and you have to ask the carnie apes for your glasses that fell off and fell to the ground. They keep all the change that falls out of pockets, though. I think working ithe Zipper is highly sought after for just that reason.
Oh. And Anthony runs off to puke in a garbage can. Don't let Anthony ride the Zipper with you. I wasn't sure he'd last the ride.
One of the most evil rides ever. I love it. Closest thing to having a motorcycle wreck I've done without actually having one (I've had a few.)
No. A single virus can cause *billions of dollars* of damage. Do you have any clue how many lives that screws up, how much lost productivity that is, how many hours of peoples' lives are wasted, how many pepole end up losing sleep, getting ulcers, and so forth? Stocks drop. Old people lose their retirements. The list goes on practically forever.
I don't know if or when the death penalty should be invoked, but I have absolutely no problem with sentencing criminals such as the Sasser worm writer to a lifetime of extremely hard, onerous labor. Or to spend the rest of their lives in public stocks. I can think of several lifetime penalties that would be excellent, even though they don't begin to repay the debt (it's impossible).
This has nothing to do with people who merely hack into systems to see if they can. This is about property damage on a colossal scale, and wasted lives.
Now frankly, I think you could make the same case against certain government agencies, but that's another thread.
I second that. The GT College of Computing has an excellent Graphics and Visualization Unit, which also gets involved with research through the Georgia Tech Research Institute (their research arm).
It would appear that it *was* a bug in 1.3 (it's not very clear on most of the pages). And it seems to have been fixed in 1.3.33, as you can read here:
``unless you have some service between your web server and the public, this vulnerability doesn't seem to affect you.''
You mean like any caching server the public may be using? Like proxies at firewalls to cut out porn and such? So suddenly all my web pages in their cache are screwed up?
I distinctly recall going to the Apache web site right after it was announced. They explained the "a patchy server" thing there. They explained it on the NCSA httpd mailing list. They said it everywhere; they were quite up front about it. I distinctly recall as I thought it was moderately clever, but not really very cute. But I still liked the name, and eventually converted to Apache when NCSA gave up on their httpd. (I was maintaining a couple of ports.)
I don't know if a spin doctor is in charge, or someone thinks it sounds juvenile, and thinks that part of growing up and leaving college behind is to lie and cover your tracks (OK, maybe they've been hanging around national level politicians).
Whatever the explanation, I would happily testify in a court of law that this is what they said from the beginning.
His crime? His actions were directly and indirectly responsible for millions of dollars of problems, for many thousands of hours wasted in peoples' lives, virtual trespassing, the list is rather long. The crime isn't that he wrote a piece of software. It's what he did with it. He screwed over a lot of people, businesses, and organizations. Including, IIRC hospitals. You know, the places that care for sick and dying people?
I don't recall the details of this specific worm (MS plays only a very small role in my job, thank God, and a microscopic role at my home; hence I never saw the thing) so I won't argue how much of the blame resides with users in this specific case.
But regardless of that, the guy who comes in through the window and trashes your house is the criminal, and should be prosecuted, whether you were stupid enough to lock the doors and windows or not.
Whether your insurance company compensates you for damages is another issue.
That's because there's not much else there
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Every few years, MS announces a revolutionary new OS. A complete rewrite. Everything you ever wanted in an OS- an more. Breakthroughs. Security. Ease of use. Your PC will be more helpful than a correctly working NS5 in _I, Robot_. It will bear your children. Etc.
And every time, before shipping, features slowly fall away, the release date slips, and eventually we get... a new GUI to learn and a new set of bugs and security holes. The GUI is usually about all they *can* talk about safely.
But the article discusses other things as well. Such as the new way a user can install drivers without being Administrator and opening up a zillion security holes. Now that's advanced. After all, it's only been possible in *nix for a couple of decades.
Slashdot Mirror
One of the first things we do with a new Mac here is plug a Microsoft or Logitech USB scroll mouse (user's choice) in, and we put the original mouse away. Probably oughta ebay those.
I don't know about all the apps, but all the basic stuff finder, browser, etc) make use of extra buttons if you do.
I think the last upgrade was the first one I've done where
most of my extensions still worked. Ionly use a handful,
but I hate having to wait for them to show up and then
reload them each time. I expect that in the 0.x releases,
but after that, it shouldn't happen with most extensions
until you jump major level numbers.
I don't remember if I had to reload the theme I use or not,
because that's pretty minor to me. But it's a huge deal for
Joe and Jane User, so it needs to work the same way extensions
should.
1) Many houses and apartments are not wired the way
you think; all the outlets in one room may not be
on the same breaker. Other rooms may have outlets
on that breaker. Lights may or may not be on the
outlet with that breaker. IOW, you would need to
test thoroughly, and probably do some rewiring.
And you still might miss something.
2) If you miswire anything and the house burns down,
your insurance may not cover you. You'll need to
check what the code is where you live and look into
inspections. Getting a licensed electrician involved
is a good idea.
3) You don't want to plug your vacuum cleaner into the
output side of your UPS; not great for either one
of them. Sooner or later, something like that will
happen.
4) If you have a laser printer, startup surges can be
huge; not a good idea to be on the UPS.
There are others, but this should be enough. I have
to go along with the people who receommended running
one (or however many) separate outlets for the UPS.
These can be current or new outlets wired to the UPS
and *clearly labeled*. Maybe use red covers or something,
with a label "Computer equipment only" or "Ask Fred
before plugging anything in here". Of course, you'd
have to change your name to Fred.... Depending on who
could possibly be plugging things in, you could even
consider switching to no normal outlets; hardwire some
power strips into a junction box, and bolt them underneath
the desks the equipment sits on. The biggest problem with
that is moving the desks.
And finally, what happens when you move? You need to make
sure this isn't too hard to reverse, or consider what
happens if you leave it. You don't want someone coming
after you with an axe or lawyer later.
Here in Texas, "old" means you can recollect when the news took days, weeks or months ta get here, dependin' on where it was comin' from. It means ya remember the time ya saw Jesse James and stayed outa his way, or how it felt when ya heard about the Alamo. It means gettin all excited when the railroads brought the tracks in. It means moseyin' takes longer than it usedta.
So all you young whippersnappers out there who think old has somethin' ta do with them dang books or buildins, think again.
Now gather round while I search for ma teeth, and I'll larn ya bout how I made friends with the Commanche, and the time we stole General Custer's clothes while he was asleepin!
[Since we're talking about ``a transplanted face being rejected and sloughing away''] ...Michael Jackson!
Soon his nose will be on his bellybutton.
Yes, the discussion linked to is far better than most /. discussions these days. It reminds me of a more idyllic /. time, when the hapy dinosaurs danced about the net.
While I disagree with Scott on most of the tab issues, I thought it was a great article. And it was really cool to se ethat he, Asa and the others are already discussing these thins (at the above-ref'd link) in a way that should engender improvements.
OK, let's look at actual time invested in each FS over 10 years...
ResierFS = what? 50 man years? 100 man years?
WinFS =~ 10K man years? 100k man years?
Both at 10 years old. But... Some 10 year olds are fairly mature while some are essentially two year olds still running around yelling "No!", just in bigger bodies.
Physical age is no indicator of maturity.
Nobody cares. Well, a bunch of lawyers care, and a few anal retentive types, and about three people who did calculations on how much space they should have and didn't bother to look at reality.
Even if you aren't a troll, you should be modded into troll heck (Phil, where are you with that pitchspoon?) for propagating this silliness.
If you really, really think this is important, then I really, really think you need a month at the beach. [I know I do, but for different reasons...]
I have it on good authority that some of the most impoartant items are missing:
1) How to determine caffeine / worker ratios, where to put the coffee pot and soda machines, whether and how much to charge, and a list o vendors who still deliver Jolt.
2) Air lock standards so you can crank up a stereo in the machine room loud enough to drown out the machine noise, without irritating fellow workers in cubes, managers walking around, and customers waiting in the lobby with different musical preferences.
3) Minimal standards for protection against Slashdot Effect.
hence the document is about as valuable as most New orleans real estate at the moment.
One of the main reasons a lot of companies were afraid of GNU software in the early days (as recently as the mid 90s, maybe even today) was fear of just this. While OSS has a lot more inertia and acceptance, and the GPL and its drivers have certainly helped in that arena, trying to force this on companies would be a death knell.
It would be seen as attempting to force communism down the companies' throats. That'll play in a few countries, but not in many.
I actually still use a "lab book" for many notes. I tell users to send email to the SA mailing list for all tasks; those, the SA internal responses and the final user responses (plus other, related emails) all go in an SA folder. Each year I start a new one and archive the old one. They're available for grep'ing for whatever text I need to find. Finally, I moved the task list from the white board (so I could do more than the 10 hot topics) into a web interface/simple database I threw together with mySql and phpMyAdmin.
Anything anyone else needs to know about goes into an email and/or onto the internal web pages.
Open Source and blooging have a lot in common?
Well, they have a few things in common. But every idiot and his pet rat seem to be blogging, and the vast, *vast* majority of it isn't worth reading, except maybe by friends and some family.
The quality of the average open source project is far better than the average blog, and far more useful to many people.
You might as well claim the Spac Shuttle and the personal bicycle have a lot in common because they both help people go places.
``First of all, KDE is still ridden with [Ok][Cancel]-buttons. These are sooo 1992-like and should be replaced with verbs, like they have correctly done with [Add to panel] in one of the screenshots. This should all be changed, and no new dialogs should be accepted until they confirm.''
That's just pure evil. Consistency is absolutely key in a GUI. If you're going to use different verb pairs for everything, you might as well use different languages for every panel as well.
Swahili, Yankee, Japanese, Portuguese, French, and Texan, anyone?
- Be careful of strangers unless in public (e.g., be wary of taxis); see #3 above.
- You will find a lot of hospitable, giving people; they may be a bit offended if you reject their hospitality. This can conflict with #1 here, but that's life.
- Finding a local mentor will help immensely.
- Expect to not be able to find a lot of things you can easily get here, such as PopTarts.
- Talk to a travel bureau about clothing, etc.
Caveat: I haven't been personally, but have several friends who have been within the past year. These suggestions are based on their stories of their trips....and you have to ask the carnie apes for your glasses that fell off and fell to the ground. They keep all the change that falls out of pockets, though. I think working ithe Zipper is highly sought after for just that reason.
Oh. And Anthony runs off to puke in a garbage can. Don't let Anthony ride the Zipper with you. I wasn't sure he'd last the ride.
One of the most evil rides ever. I love it. Closest thing to having a motorcycle wreck I've done without actually having one (I've had a few.)
No. A single virus can cause *billions of dollars* of damage. Do you have any clue how many lives that screws up, how much lost productivity that is, how many hours of peoples' lives are wasted, how many pepole end up losing sleep, getting ulcers, and so forth? Stocks drop. Old people lose their retirements. The list goes on practically forever.
I don't know if or when the death penalty should be invoked, but I have absolutely no problem with sentencing criminals such as the Sasser worm writer to a lifetime of extremely hard, onerous labor. Or to spend the rest of their lives in public stocks. I can think of several lifetime penalties that would be excellent, even though they don't begin to repay the debt (it's impossible).
This has nothing to do with people who merely hack into systems to see if they can. This is about property damage on a colossal scale, and wasted lives.
Now frankly, I think you could make the same case against certain government agencies, but that's another thread.
I second that. The GT College of Computing has an excellent Graphics and Visualization Unit, which also gets involved with research through the Georgia Tech Research Institute (their research arm).
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/
It would appear that it *was* a bug in 1.3 (it's not very clear on most of the pages). And it seems to have been fixed in 1.3.33, as you can read here:
l
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement.htm
``unless you have some service between your web server and the public, this vulnerability doesn't seem to affect you.''
You mean like any caching server the public may be using? Like proxies at firewalls to cut out porn and such? So suddenly all my web pages in their cache are screwed up?
That affects me.
Sorry; my fingers got carried away. Maybe it's the Apache influence. 8^)
I was helping maintain a couple of ports, doing tests and submitting patches. I wasn't a primary maintainer. Just to keep things straight!
I distinctly recall going to the Apache web site right after it was announced. They explained the "a patchy server" thing there. They explained it on the NCSA httpd mailing list. They said it everywhere; they were quite up front about it. I distinctly recall as I thought it was moderately clever, but not really very cute. But I still liked the name, and eventually converted to Apache when NCSA gave up on their httpd. (I was maintaining a couple of ports.)
I don't know if a spin doctor is in charge, or someone thinks it sounds juvenile, and thinks that part of growing up and leaving college behind is to lie and cover your tracks (OK, maybe they've been hanging around national level politicians).
Whatever the explanation, I would happily testify in a court of law that this is what they said from the beginning.
His crime? His actions were directly and indirectly responsible for millions of dollars of problems, for many thousands of hours wasted in peoples' lives, virtual trespassing, the list is rather long. The crime isn't that he wrote a piece of software. It's what he did with it. He screwed over a lot of people, businesses, and organizations. Including, IIRC hospitals. You know, the places that care for sick and dying people?
I don't recall the details of this specific worm (MS plays only a very small role in my job, thank God, and a microscopic role at my home; hence I never saw the thing) so I won't argue how much of the blame resides with users in this specific case.
But regardless of that, the guy who comes in through the window and trashes your house is the criminal, and should be prosecuted, whether you were stupid enough to lock the doors and windows or not.
Whether your insurance company compensates you for damages is another issue.
Absolutely.
My wife really loathes having to use a computer. She will seldom use one if she doesn't have to. She'd rather do things by hand 99% of the time.
But she quite happily logs on and goes to Amazon to buy books. So they must be doing a lot of things right.
I hear they like books...
Every few years, MS announces a revolutionary new OS. A complete rewrite. Everything you ever wanted in an OS- an more. Breakthroughs. Security. Ease of use. Your PC will be more helpful than a correctly working NS5 in _I, Robot_. It will bear your children. Etc.
And every time, before shipping, features slowly fall away, the release date slips, and eventually we get... a new GUI to learn and a new set of bugs and security holes. The GUI is usually about all they *can* talk about safely.
But the article discusses other things as well. Such as the new way a user can install drivers without being Administrator and opening up a zillion security holes. Now that's advanced. After all, it's only been possible in *nix for a couple of decades.