As far as I can remember, you can also enter it into the address bar of the Windows Explorer. At least you used to be able to do it, no clue how that looks on Vista interface where everything is located at a brand new +5 clicks fashion. Didn't see a Windows Explorer in ages anyway, thanks god!
Same here. The games and habit kept me on dual boot mainly with windows for ages. About two years ago I got rid of it.
Since then my temptation to migrate back is nil. Actually it is decreasing day by day, if that is possible.
Now the fact that Windows gets crappier, more restricted and bloated with every new release don't help them too much in this. Anyone actually ever migrated to Windows based on features ever?
While technically it is no problem to send them large quantities of information, local law prohibits most of it and you will be sued by different interest groups if you try. So if we find someone out there, then we will probably start to spam them with viagra adds..
Well, I'm playing with ZODB, which is a Python object database. Nice thing, can also be run as clustered version, is really scalable and reliable. The thing is, only very few know it, even less want to know about it. If people talk about databases, they think about RDBMs. Developers hate new stuff, that's why relational databases will stay for a very long time, even in situations where they might not be the optimal choice. That's life.
Nah, you actually think more creative under the influence of alcohol. The thing is just, that you don't remember who the chick is you wake up next morning with and forget all the fun parts, and also maybe get a fun infection because of your carelessness.
Agree, can't we just stick to established open standards and leave the binary blobs where they belong (garbage bin). It seriously does not help the OS'es/Browsers to have to support 16 different binary blobs which are mostly released only for specific architectures and have to be wrapped to oblivion, are slow and break all the time. Also you can't comprehend what they are doing and who they are talking to most of the time.
Please cut the crap. Intel is investing $7 Billion in US based production. That's a lot of employees making and selling chips, paying taxes, buying stuff and not starving. I find it unusually sane this time. Makes the economy spin. They should be able to finance it, I'm sure they did the math. It's also a competitive advantage with the new technology. So what is exactly your problem? What do you suggest? Should they sit on the money and wait what happens? Does not sound convincing, does it?
Oh, and the too big to fail argument is total bullocks. Who came up with such a nonsense? It's supposed to be a free market! If something is not sustainable, then it has to go, no matter how big it is. It will be followed by smaller and more efficient ones as long as the need persists for the goods. The folks that got the bailout only did a bunch of asshattery in congress.
Yea, that'll make things simpler. Search the whole revision history since the article went on-line to check if your edit was in there somewhere before the external reference. Now give me my damn pony..
Finally a reasonable comment. The question was indeed completely pointless and ignores most of the requirements that are needed for data security.
First of, if you encrypt the whole hard drive, then start a virus riddled system and connect to the Internet while the encrypted volumes are mounted, you managed to achieve nothing.
If you really want your data secure, then you have to create a sane data handling policy, restrict data access, train your staff and then encrypt the confidential stuff.
Obviously Slashdot seems to be the wrong place to start. Ask a security professional.
So I'm with you for the general user interface, Firefox, Pidgin, OOo.. but GIMP.. not even techie friends of mine could figure that one out. You need to learn that one. But I think it's no different with Photoshop anyway, just more popular..
I still don't understand why they don't just sandbox any application that wants to be installed and only when it tries to access user data there should be a prompt.
You know, something like "Market watch X wants to inspect your porn collection [allow] [yes]" instead of "blah blah privileges blah [allow] [maybe]"
Heck, the last thing I would want anybody is to run as root if not engaged in some kind of setup process.
It would just make more sense to make this process straight forward (initiate setup process, do stuff, end setup). This would require a one time authorization and a clue on what one is doing. -> education.
Wait a sec. When did the UAC ever provide protection for the system? Even before it appeared, nobody read the waring dialogs. The design failure was to try improving the security by prompting even more dialogs which led to the phenomenon that even less of those dialogs were ever read.
I still think it would be a better way to teach the user about security than to prompt him messages he/she does not understand anyway.
How about including a security and basic computer usage tutorial in the OS? Put in some porn and computer security will rise at once!
True. The browser is not so important. Who uses that anyway? Much more interesting would be to add different versions of DRM as a bundle, or put it as optional add-on. For example the DRM from Apple and Sony. I'm curious of how they would try to convince the customers to install that as optional and suggested extension. But wait a sec, they would probably have to rewrite half of the os for that. It's much easier with the browser - oh, wait..
The first thing I do with newly set up browsers (user interfaces in general) is to disable marquee.. blinking and then ads. I hate those things. They are distracting me and are hell of annoying. So why exactly should I want to put a huge marquee on my desk?
Whatever your problem is, it is not Google. At least it works perfectly fine here and I never got problems about it. Maybe your connection is crappy, or your OS. Did you make some comparisons? Anyway, for private use I would recommend Gmail, it's quite a good service.
As for business solutions, I would also prefer in house solutions. Not just because of the reliability. Also you get more control of the filtering. You have more configuration options. Less information leakage risks. Can set up your own server sided AV. And so on.. But that is kind of a different story.
I typed a few years in QUERTY up to a good touch typing efficiency. Then I played with the idea of switching to Dvorak. Took me a lot of self conviction, but I finally just switched the layout. The first day was totally confusing. Then it got better. Then worse again, because the old reflexes snaped in again. After 1-2 months the conversion was about done. Now I use it since a few years and never had even the slightest desire to switch to QUERTY again.
Speed is one thing and back when there was a guiness book discipline for touch typing - dvorak was on the first place, but the more important thing is, that it does not stress the hands too much and I don't get RSI even with much typing. There is another thing: it is actually fun typing in Dvorak.
Now I don't care what market analysts say. Especially people who don't type in Dvorak. It's like the Windows vs. Linux discussion. Linux people know why they like Linux because they use it. Windows people have no clue. Gets old.
For havens sake, do the content providers realize how much profit loss the ISP's would suffer when they loose the last bit of faith of their customers? The first ISP's that get the reputation of fu*king with their customers would face a massive loss of their customer base. I can't imagine this would be equalized with the settlements, especially since the users (the ones left) would accommodate and use new means for their illicit content distribution (new technologies and services for this infrastructure would arise quite fast).
Furthermore the technical means for monitoring and identifying such legally illicit use of the network would also cost a lot of money that also pays a big rule in the calculation. Especially for encrypted transfer they would have to set up listening posts to get the content (engage in file-sharing themselves, at least as lechers).
There are a lot of technically uneducated people out there, but this kind of infrastructure is so massive, that there are always solution providers even for this group and they tend to follow the stream.
Another thing I was wondering about is: what the heck do they want to protect anymore. As far as I see the creative output of Holywood and co. stopped about 2-3 years ago. There is actually not much left to 'steal' by now. So what's the point of this kind of FUD. I don't see any. Can someone please explain?
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Well, if you read the acronym correctly, then it says "I am not anal". Believe me, nobody on Slashdot wants to be anal.
*ducks*
As far as I can remember, you can also enter it into the address bar of the Windows Explorer. At least you used to be able to do it, no clue how that looks on Vista interface where everything is located at a brand new +5 clicks fashion. Didn't see a Windows Explorer in ages anyway, thanks god!
Same here. The games and habit kept me on dual boot mainly with windows for ages. About two years ago I got rid of it.
Since then my temptation to migrate back is nil. Actually it is decreasing day by day, if that is possible.
Now the fact that Windows gets crappier, more restricted and bloated with every new release don't help them too much in this. Anyone actually ever migrated to Windows based on features ever?
While technically it is no problem to send them large quantities of information, local law prohibits most of it and you will be sued by different interest groups if you try. So if we find someone out there, then we will probably start to spam them with viagra adds..
Well, I'm playing with ZODB, which is a Python object database. Nice thing, can also be run as clustered version, is really scalable and reliable. The thing is, only very few know it, even less want to know about it. If people talk about databases, they think about RDBMs. Developers hate new stuff, that's why relational databases will stay for a very long time, even in situations where they might not be the optimal choice. That's life.
Nah, you actually think more creative under the influence of alcohol. The thing is just, that you don't remember who the chick is you wake up next morning with and forget all the fun parts, and also maybe get a fun infection because of your carelessness.
Agree, can't we just stick to established open standards and leave the binary blobs where they belong (garbage bin). It seriously does not help the OS'es/Browsers to have to support 16 different binary blobs which are mostly released only for specific architectures and have to be wrapped to oblivion, are slow and break all the time. Also you can't comprehend what they are doing and who they are talking to most of the time.
You've go my vote for this! This stuff starts to really get on my nerves.
Please cut the crap. Intel is investing $7 Billion in US based production. That's a lot of employees making and selling chips, paying taxes, buying stuff and not starving. I find it unusually sane this time. Makes the economy spin. They should be able to finance it, I'm sure they did the math. It's also a competitive advantage with the new technology. So what is exactly your problem? What do you suggest? Should they sit on the money and wait what happens? Does not sound convincing, does it?
Oh, and the too big to fail argument is total bullocks. Who came up with such a nonsense? It's supposed to be a free market! If something is not sustainable, then it has to go, no matter how big it is. It will be followed by smaller and more efficient ones as long as the need persists for the goods. The folks that got the bailout only did a bunch of asshattery in congress.
Yea, that'll make things simpler. Search the whole revision history since the article went on-line to check if your edit was in there somewhere before the external reference. Now give me my damn pony..
Finally a reasonable comment. The question was indeed completely pointless and ignores most of the requirements that are needed for data security.
First of, if you encrypt the whole hard drive, then start a virus riddled system and connect to the Internet while the encrypted volumes are mounted, you managed to achieve nothing.
If you really want your data secure, then you have to create a sane data handling policy, restrict data access, train your staff and then encrypt the confidential stuff.
Obviously Slashdot seems to be the wrong place to start. Ask a security professional.
So I'm with you for the general user interface, Firefox, Pidgin, OOo.. but GIMP.. not even techie friends of mine could figure that one out. You need to learn that one. But I think it's no different with Photoshop anyway, just more popular..
I still don't understand why they don't just sandbox any application that wants to be installed and only when it tries to access user data there should be a prompt.
You know, something like "Market watch X wants to inspect your porn collection [allow] [yes]" instead of "blah blah privileges blah [allow] [maybe]"
True. I visited the site that supposed to have this "unblockable" popups, but they failed to pop up on my Firefox. Adblock plus is a wonderful plugin.
Heck, the last thing I would want anybody is to run as root if not engaged in some kind of setup process.
It would just make more sense to make this process straight forward (initiate setup process, do stuff, end setup). This would require a one time authorization and a clue on what one is doing. -> education.
Wait a sec. When did the UAC ever provide protection for the system? Even before it appeared, nobody read the waring dialogs. The design failure was to try improving the security by prompting even more dialogs which led to the phenomenon that even less of those dialogs were ever read.
I still think it would be a better way to teach the user about security than to prompt him messages he/she does not understand anyway.
How about including a security and basic computer usage tutorial in the OS? Put in some porn and computer security will rise at once!
Yes
True. The browser is not so important. Who uses that anyway? Much more interesting would be to add different versions of DRM as a bundle, or put it as optional add-on. For example the DRM from Apple and Sony. I'm curious of how they would try to convince the customers to install that as optional and suggested extension. But wait a sec, they would probably have to rewrite half of the os for that. It's much easier with the browser - oh, wait..
Huh? You watch TV with no broadband? What century are you coming from?
The first thing I do with newly set up browsers (user interfaces in general) is to disable marquee.. blinking and then ads. I hate those things. They are distracting me and are hell of annoying. So why exactly should I want to put a huge marquee on my desk?
Whatever your problem is, it is not Google. At least it works perfectly fine here and I never got problems about it. Maybe your connection is crappy, or your OS. Did you make some comparisons? Anyway, for private use I would recommend Gmail, it's quite a good service.
As for business solutions, I would also prefer in house solutions. Not just because of the reliability. Also you get more control of the filtering. You have more configuration options. Less information leakage risks. Can set up your own server sided AV. And so on.. But that is kind of a different story.
I typed a few years in QUERTY up to a good touch typing efficiency. Then I played with the idea of switching to Dvorak. Took me a lot of self conviction, but I finally just switched the layout. The first day was totally confusing. Then it got better. Then worse again, because the old reflexes snaped in again. After 1-2 months the conversion was about done. Now I use it since a few years and never had even the slightest desire to switch to QUERTY again.
Speed is one thing and back when there was a guiness book discipline for touch typing - dvorak was on the first place, but the more important thing is, that it does not stress the hands too much and I don't get RSI even with much typing. There is another thing: it is actually fun typing in Dvorak.
Now I don't care what market analysts say. Especially people who don't type in Dvorak. It's like the Windows vs. Linux discussion. Linux people know why they like Linux because they use it. Windows people have no clue. Gets old.
Oh, now I get it. Your post was ironical for the GP. Sorry there.
Maybe I missed something, but since when exactly are CD's analog, hm?
For havens sake, do the content providers realize how much profit loss the ISP's would suffer when they loose the last bit of faith of their customers? The first ISP's that get the reputation of fu*king with their customers would face a massive loss of their customer base. I can't imagine this would be equalized with the settlements, especially since the users (the ones left) would accommodate and use new means for their illicit content distribution (new technologies and services for this infrastructure would arise quite fast).
Furthermore the technical means for monitoring and identifying such legally illicit use of the network would also cost a lot of money that also pays a big rule in the calculation. Especially for encrypted transfer they would have to set up listening posts to get the content (engage in file-sharing themselves, at least as lechers).
There are a lot of technically uneducated people out there, but this kind of infrastructure is so massive, that there are always solution providers even for this group and they tend to follow the stream.
Another thing I was wondering about is: what the heck do they want to protect anymore. As far as I see the creative output of Holywood and co. stopped about 2-3 years ago. There is actually not much left to 'steal' by now. So what's the point of this kind of FUD. I don't see any. Can someone please explain?