I am not well informed about your MIS program so I won't make so many assumptions as the previous reply to your comment. I am a geek, sure, I use Linux, I read Slashdot, I love technology, but it by no means defines me socially.
I am a computer engineer. I also do consultant work in IT/IS. As a computer engineer in the IT field I manage projects that involve the construction of systems. CS types and MIS types are both crucial in the process of specifying and designing a system that solves a problem. I rely on MIS as users of the systems I design. They will be responsible for the product after it's deployed. They will use the reporting systems to extract business information.
In one such project I'm currently on, the MIS individual is responsible for reporting to the department of education on student data. Often she'll need to interpret the state reporting requirements, time frames, inclusion, and exclusion criteria. She'll need to actually produce those reports, verify them, and take ownership of them.
That is an important role, and one I am so glad that I don't have to do. I use the CS to build the system I design. They are trained to adapt to programming technology. They know the nitty-gritty details of software. Algorithms, databases, etc that actually implement the design. I expect the CS to be able to pick up the OCI API, JDBC, or DOM. I expect the MIS to be able to utilize the system we build. It may take some programming to do it, it may take some project management if the requirements are large enough to warrant a team of MIS/IS types to implement it.
Like the previous poster, I too will state that project management takes a lot of experience. You need to know a lot of things. What is needed, how much time do you have, how many people will be working on it, what is the design, how can the design be broken up, how much time does it take to do X, how much time does it take to test Y? These are things that are difficult to learn in school, they come from experience.
Overall I think that the differences between CS, IS, MIS, CE, EE, etc are clear and important. There are gray areas and plenty of crossover. An MIS major may not end up doing MIS work that I described, but then he is no longer really in MIS...
An EE creates the hardware that make a computer, a CE takes the hardware and integrates software to create a platform. The CS develops an application on that platform. The MIS uses that application to get real work done.
I'm sorry if this was too wordy, I wanted to respond without seeming as pessimistic as the previous response. Best of luck in your education, career, and geekdom!
I have first hand experience with this particular individual. I wanted to reply to every post I've read on this page and address each point individually. However, there are too many points to address and too many of my own to add.
My Experiences My first experience with this kid was three years ago. I am a consultant for the school department in which he was attending high school.
One afternoon I got wind of a report that a couple of computers were "operating themselves." Of course, they were not, they were being controlled by VNC. We took the computers out of the library, found the backdoor, and analyzed all the files. We were also able to identify the backdoor that was installed, as well as the many utilities that were downloaded from a file-serving website he had setup.
Many of the files contained portions or the entirety of a first name. The website the files were downloaded from contained the same first name.
The backdoor was installed on the premesis. It was installed before the start of school. The utilities were downloaded during school hours.
We did a first name search in the SIS system, we found five or so individuals with the same first name. None were enrolled in a class that had a computer in the classroom. We then did an attendence search on those individuals. Only one was absent the date the utilities were downloaded. We had our guy, we were confident, but the evidence was circumstantial.
We decided to put the compromised (Windows 98) systems back on the network under surveillance, or specifically tethereal. The systems immediately connected to irc.mircx.com and joined a channel with the first name, again.
For a few days nothing happened. No activity, other than the PING/PONG of IRC. That weekend, however, he bit. He bit hard, too. He searched the names and phone numbers of guidance counsellors, secretaries, and other school personnelle. He obviously conducted some rather trivial social engineering. He was able to gain access to the SIS system, which runs on OpenVMS.
We tracked his every move, I laughed and laughed as he struggled with VMS. Time after time he would break the telnet connection because he was stuck in EDT, or because he confounded the DEC Basic application. He queried himself multiple times, tried to change information about his enemies, I assumed, and made unsuccessful attempts to change his own grades.
The administration didn't buy it. He cried foul, denied any knowledge of computers, claimed he was botted, claimed hackers were out to get him. They didn't pursue the issue, but we 'secured' the network. We dropped all IRC traffic and all VNC traffic. The next day we were subjected to a crippling DDOS, and a bomb threat was called into the school. We couldn't prove it was related and got no support from above.
A few months later, he was cought red handed trying to break into an attendance-entry web interface, by a librarian. He was suspended and removed from computer classes. Case closed, at least from our perspective. A few more days of DDOSes, but that ended quickly.
The next school year, bizarre things started happening again. The High School's network was secured, but the middle schools were not locked down as well. Again, the SIS system was being accessed after hours from backdoored systems. Again, social engineering had taken place. We locked down that building, but the accesses were still happening. It was determined that an unsecured WAP had been installed on site and he was sitting outside the building accessing the network. (Sometimes I wonder why they pay me when they do things like that despite my objections).
Of course, we had even less evidence this time to point to him but it was obviously him. The IRC backdoors were the same, the names were the same, the passwords were the same, but the administration still refused to act. We secured that network and the after hours accesses stopped, but unusual activities continued to arouse suspicions.
This works quite well, but there are some consequences for this action:
1. You are likely to be passed by on promotions because self inflicted developer dependence for this application. 2. You will have to figure it out later, after you've forgotten what all that magic gobly-gook does.
magic gobly-gook: effective, efficient, and incredibly dense code produced wilst 'in the zone'
I did not mean to give the impression that I felt the US should have its hand in every scientific discovery in the universe. I meant it to be a critique of our current administration's scientific policy.
It was supposed to be a nose thumbing at the president's agenda and rhetoric.
I am well aware that the sun will one day set on the American empire, otherwise I don't think I would have left that comment at all.
Your points are all valid, and I agree with them.
Whether has always been a problem word for me. Also the rarity of comma use. I can claim mastery over there, their, and they're, however.;-) "Their is an H in whether...."
I found myself reading this article quite mindful of the frequency of stories recently that suggest the US is headed down a dangerous path of neglect and ignorance. Not only in the arena of biological research (stem cell, et al) but in technological developments as well. This is not a matter of observation but rather official administrative policy http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/0 2/183230&tid=98&tid=103&tid=190&tid=215&tid=231&ti d=14.
"The study was funded by EPSRC in the United Kingdom, Ohio University, Volkswagen, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundations, with additional support by the Scottish Executive and the Royal Society of Edinburgh"
It seems to me that this is exactly one example of the type of technology the government should be promoting, for military benefit or not. What I am not sure of is wether the researches had the option to solicit US funding or if they chose rather to not bother?
I don't know, it struck me as a little odd considering that we're told repeatedly about how important it is to be a world leader in economy, technology, and security here is something that promotes all three and the pentagon's fat couffers are nowhere to be found. (well potentially compromises the third, but that's another story)
Stable and Secure OS! Here here. Obviously you haven't had to use one in a production environment in 10 years. I work for two organizations that currently maintain these overly complext and foolishly configurable systems. VMS may be very secure as a recent hack attempt was repelled, but as for stable I beg to differ.
Years of neglect from Compaq and HP have left OpenVMS on Alpha vulnerable to a great many flaws. Flaws that they are quick to blame on software vendors and terrifyingly slow to patch.
Just last week we needed to null route a VMS server to stop a ddos, and of course it started into a crash-loop. It would run for 10 seconds after a reboot then crash again. 8 hours later I determined NAMED_SERVER was killing the system. Disabled NAMED and it worked great. Yeah, that sounds like a well designed and maintained system to me.
VMS is dead because of neglect and low demand. The last thing in the world VMS needed was another architechture change. VAX->Alpha left it in a pretty sorry state. Alpha->IA-64 would have made it unmanagable.
fuckedcompany? no.. fuckedrepublic
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Someone should make a fuckedrepublic website so that we can predict when our rights are revoked and for which reasons.
Illegal search and seizure, May 8, 2005: Homeland Defense.
Right to Private Property, September 19, 2006: Corporate Bottom Lines.
that is a damn ignorant opinion. Mac OS is solid. Hardly "crap". You obviously have a pro athlon bias, for whatever reason. Certainly you also have some awful longevity and reliability malfunction to run Windows XP and Linux on Athlons.
I've worked in the industry for four years and I've seen many athlons, NONE of which have been in the data center because of their gross unreliability. Who cares if an intel box is $50 more expensive???!?! Mission critical systems deserve an extra $50!
Back to your original statement, however, Apple does not make crap. Their operating system is well designed, well implemented, built on a solid foundation, and leaps and bounds ahead of windows and linux in the UI department. Calling it crap only reduces your comment to a bias-driven bucket of suck.
aha you bastard, ancient technology. every week a decwriter prints out checks for every employee at the huge school department i work for. one night the sucker blew and my check hadn't printed yet. I did the same thing. Well, almost the same thing. i used a peice of the tin foil i had my sandwich wrapped in.
only ever installed vax/vms ~4 using one of those, i didn't actually realize people wrote code using them.
i'm pretty amused that you call something i still support ancient technology.
oh, btw, this was after they stopped paying out OT, so after my check printed i popped the modified fuse back out and went home. my last name starts with a B.. haha, suckas.
You and the submitter both do absolutely no work all day long. You shouldn't be surprised when your jobs are exported.
Fat lazy american pigs.
Oh, I'm one too. Also notice my posting on/. at 3:24. I've done almost nothing all day. Fat, lazy, american pig. I wonder why the CIO is meeting with those Indian suits?
6. Apply for a patent. You will get the patent, is too easy these days.
What bothers me here is that are trying to drum up karma by catering to the USPTO sucks, and lawsuits suck/. crowd. Yes, when it comes to SOFTWARE patents the USPTO is f'n up feircely.
Solar sail technology is legitimately patentable even though it is gritting on the nerves of those who have not made a considerable investment in the development of anything ever.
Readers and contributers to this site seriously need to learn that it takes capital investment to drive an economy. I can not understand how some people complain of an economic slump, specifically in the IT sector, and in the same breath make outrageous claims like software and information should be free.
Yes, SCO sucks. I know. They do, and I'm sick of reading out them. But remember, there are people there who are going to lose their jobs.
If you invested millions into a technology nobody else has wouldn't you like some guarantee that you have the ability to return the investment?
I got a 5 watt FM transmitter a few years ago, scavenged mic, repaired a mixer, built an antenna. I ran a coax from the basement to the garage, and put the antenna up on the roof. I had a couple hundred MP3s that I'd downloaded on a 56kbps before the days of napster.
After a few hours I decided this was no longer any fun because nobody was listening. I tried to sell the whole rig on Ebay. It got delisted and I was told it was contraband.
Come to find out, after I RTFM, the whole thing was very illegal and I would have been looking at several hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for FCC licensing violations, antenna placement procesdures, song licensing, and several others. Well I took the whole rig down and was thankful I didn't get cought.
The whole experience was kind of fun. I don't remember where I put the transmitter, though. Perhaps it's cemented into the patio.
Perhaps you are a zealot. I use Mozilla right beside IE. Actually, I use Mozilla's e-mail client. I will quote you and say that it is quite simply, just better...than outlook [express]. But the performance of the browser is awful. It's clunky, ugly, and quite unusable. Tabs are nice, and so is pop-up blocking, but who cares if its crashy and unresponsive way more often than IE.
That's my opinion, of course. I'm no Microsoft junkie, and I'm certainly not a fanboy, whatever that means. I do know that IE on Windows is a better browser than Mozilla, and I only wish it was a simple task to teach IE that I want Mozilla Mail for mailto: URLs and teach Mozilla that I want IE for http: URLs.
I use a Mac at work, and man, I was so glad when Safari came out. Mozilla on the mac is a steaming pile of crap. IE is no better. Both are sluggish and tired. Unfortunately Mozilla Mail is the only e-mail client that has encryption for e-mail.
Also I am saying Mozilla but I've used the Netscape builds too and what I'm saying holds true. I'm not a zealot, I use the best tool for the job. On a Windows box, the best way to browse is to open IE. Mozilla is my #1 choice on Solaris and Linux, that's for sure.
Perhaps the benchmarks and fanfare are only being used to push those who were interested in purchasing a Mac for the OS but were not going to spend $3000 on a G4 when a G5 was expected.
Those who are deeply entrenched are not going to switch sides because of a benchmarks. There are still people swearing that AMD chips are faster than Intel chips, and when the benchmarks show they are then the Intel fans will swear it's not true. Blah blah blah. Who cares?
People use Macs for reasons other than Benchmakrs against Intel/AMD chips. I have used PCs for a very long time, but I have also been using Mac OS X at work and as often as I could. It really is a terrifically designed system which offers significant benefits. The only thing holding me back what the overpriced G4. Now there is nothing, thank you Apple.
The FBI is an executive agency. I thought the agency is directed by the president. Legislature makes laws, executive enforces laws, and judicial interprets laws. I do not understand how or why the Congress would be detailing the enforcement of particular laws. Certainly Copyright law itself would already fall under the jurisdiction of the FBI. And would thusly be at the will of the presidency to either enforce or ignore. Does anyone have any ideas since IANAL?
You totally missed the point! If a blonde hottie breaks into your house and takes off her clothes, but there's nobody there to watch, then how do you know she's naked?
The higest tier is 600VAC three phase. Then below that is 120VAC service which goes into homes and things. That's why there are huge transformers sitting between two appropriately distanced wires.
As the subject says. The card just doesn't work for more than 10 minutes. Value edition, feh.
Otherwise this is a really good idea, I thought about doing it myself. I was trying to record the simpsons but my whole system just froze up. Tried all the drivers, different video cards, not worth it.
My boss purchased a unit which has VHS and a DVD burner on it for around $600. Very high quality recordings too. He found it in an electronics catalog or something, he talks a lot though so I don't remember the specifics.
Slashdot Mirror
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"Really like your peaches want to shake your tree"
Hmm.
once google indexes this page it'll no longer be a google whack. i'll call this the slashdot-googlewhack uncertainty principle.
I am not well informed about your MIS program so I won't make so many assumptions as the previous reply to your comment. I am a geek, sure, I use Linux, I read Slashdot, I love technology, but it by no means defines me socially.
I am a computer engineer. I also do consultant work in IT/IS. As a computer engineer in the IT field I manage projects that involve the construction of systems. CS types and MIS types are both crucial in the process of specifying and designing a system that solves a problem. I rely on MIS as users of the systems I design. They will be responsible for the product after it's deployed. They will use the reporting systems to extract business information.
In one such project I'm currently on, the MIS individual is responsible for reporting to the department of education on student data. Often she'll need to interpret the state reporting requirements, time frames, inclusion, and exclusion criteria. She'll need to actually produce those reports, verify them, and take ownership of them.
That is an important role, and one I am so glad that I don't have to do. I use the CS to build the system I design. They are trained to adapt to programming technology. They know the nitty-gritty details of software. Algorithms, databases, etc that actually implement the design. I expect the CS to be able to pick up the OCI API, JDBC, or DOM. I expect the MIS to be able to utilize the system we build. It may take some programming to do it, it may take some project management if the requirements are large enough to warrant a team of MIS/IS types to implement it.
Like the previous poster, I too will state that project management takes a lot of experience. You need to know a lot of things. What is needed, how much time do you have, how many people will be working on it, what is the design, how can the design be broken up, how much time does it take to do X, how much time does it take to test Y? These are things that are difficult to learn in school, they come from experience.
Overall I think that the differences between CS, IS, MIS, CE, EE, etc are clear and important. There are gray areas and plenty of crossover. An MIS major may not end up doing MIS work that I described, but then he is no longer really in MIS...
An EE creates the hardware that make a computer, a CE takes the hardware and integrates software to create a platform. The CS develops an application on that platform. The MIS uses that application to get real work done.
I'm sorry if this was too wordy, I wanted to respond without seeming as pessimistic as the previous response. Best of luck in your education, career, and geekdom!
nevermind then, it must be someone else.
I have first hand experience with this particular individual. I wanted to reply to every post I've read on this page and address each point individually. However, there are too many points to address and too many of my own to add.
My Experiences
My first experience with this kid was three years ago. I am a consultant for the school department in which he was attending high school.
One afternoon I got wind of a report that a couple of computers were "operating themselves." Of course, they were not, they were being controlled by VNC. We took the computers out of the library, found the backdoor, and analyzed all the files. We were also able to identify the backdoor that was installed, as well as the many utilities that were downloaded from a file-serving website he had setup.
Many of the files contained portions or the entirety of a first name. The website the files were downloaded from contained the same first name.
The backdoor was installed on the premesis. It was installed before the start of school. The utilities were downloaded during school hours.
We did a first name search in the SIS system, we found five or so individuals with the same first name. None were enrolled in a class that had a computer in the classroom. We then did an attendence search on those individuals. Only one was absent the date the utilities were downloaded. We had our guy, we were confident, but the evidence was circumstantial.
We decided to put the compromised (Windows 98) systems back on the network under surveillance, or specifically tethereal. The systems immediately connected to irc.mircx.com and joined a channel with the first name, again.
For a few days nothing happened. No activity, other than the PING/PONG of IRC. That weekend, however, he bit. He bit hard, too. He searched the names and phone numbers of guidance counsellors, secretaries, and other school personnelle. He obviously conducted some rather trivial social engineering. He was able to gain access to the SIS system, which runs on OpenVMS.
We tracked his every move, I laughed and laughed as he struggled with VMS. Time after time he would break the telnet connection because he was stuck in EDT, or because he confounded the DEC Basic application. He queried himself multiple times, tried to change information about his enemies, I assumed, and made unsuccessful attempts to change his own grades.
The administration didn't buy it. He cried foul, denied any knowledge of computers, claimed he was botted, claimed hackers were out to get him. They didn't pursue the issue, but we 'secured' the network. We dropped all IRC traffic and all VNC traffic. The next day we were subjected to a crippling DDOS, and a bomb threat was called into the school. We couldn't prove it was related and got no support from above.
A few months later, he was cought red handed trying to break into an attendance-entry web interface, by a librarian. He was suspended and removed from computer classes. Case closed, at least from our perspective. A few more days of DDOSes, but that ended quickly.
The next school year, bizarre things started happening again. The High School's network was secured, but the middle schools were not locked down as well. Again, the SIS system was being accessed after hours from backdoored systems. Again, social engineering had taken place. We locked down that building, but the accesses were still happening. It was determined that an unsecured WAP had been installed on site and he was sitting outside the building accessing the network. (Sometimes I wonder why they pay me when they do things like that despite my objections).
Of course, we had even less evidence this time to point to him but it was obviously him. The IRC backdoors were the same, the names were the same, the passwords were the same, but the administration still refused to act. We secured that network and the after hours accesses stopped, but unusual activities continued to arouse suspicions.
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This works quite well, but there are some consequences for this action:
1. You are likely to be passed by on promotions because self inflicted developer dependence for this application.
2. You will have to figure it out later, after you've forgotten what all that magic gobly-gook does.
magic gobly-gook: effective, efficient, and incredibly dense code produced wilst 'in the zone'
I did not mean to give the impression that I felt the US should have its hand in every scientific discovery in the universe. I meant it to be a critique of our current administration's scientific policy.
;-) "Their is an H in whether...."
It was supposed to be a nose thumbing at the president's agenda and rhetoric.
I am well aware that the sun will one day set on the American empire, otherwise I don't think I would have left that comment at all.
Your points are all valid, and I agree with them.
Whether has always been a problem word for me. Also the rarity of comma use. I can claim mastery over there, their, and they're, however.
I found myself reading this article quite mindful of the frequency of stories recently that suggest the US is headed down a dangerous path of neglect and ignorance. Not only in the arena of biological research (stem cell, et al) but in technological developments as well. This is not a matter of observation but rather official administrative policy http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/0 2/183230&tid=98&tid=103&tid=190&tid=215&tid=231&ti d=14 .
"The study was funded by EPSRC in the United Kingdom, Ohio University, Volkswagen, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundations, with additional support by the Scottish Executive and the Royal Society of Edinburgh"
It seems to me that this is exactly one example of the type of technology the government should be promoting, for military benefit or not. What I am not sure of is wether the researches had the option to solicit US funding or if they chose rather to not bother?
I don't know, it struck me as a little odd considering that we're told repeatedly about how important it is to be a world leader in economy, technology, and security here is something that promotes all three and the pentagon's fat couffers are nowhere to be found. (well potentially compromises the third, but that's another story)
fewer electrons.
Sounds like daily driving in the Boston area. Pre big dig southeast expressway, in particular.
Stable and Secure OS! Here here. Obviously you haven't had to use one in a production environment in 10 years. I work for two organizations that currently maintain these overly complext and foolishly configurable systems. VMS may be very secure as a recent hack attempt was repelled, but as for stable I beg to differ.
Years of neglect from Compaq and HP have left OpenVMS on Alpha vulnerable to a great many flaws. Flaws that they are quick to blame on software vendors and terrifyingly slow to patch.
Just last week we needed to null route a VMS server to stop a ddos, and of course it started into a crash-loop. It would run for 10 seconds after a reboot then crash again. 8 hours later I determined NAMED_SERVER was killing the system. Disabled NAMED and it worked great. Yeah, that sounds like a well designed and maintained system to me.
VMS is dead because of neglect and low demand. The last thing in the world VMS needed was another architechture change. VAX->Alpha left it in a pretty sorry state. Alpha->IA-64 would have made it unmanagable.
Someone should make a fuckedrepublic website so that we can predict when our rights are revoked and for which reasons.
Illegal search and seizure, May 8, 2005: Homeland Defense.
Right to Private Property, September 19, 2006: Corporate Bottom Lines.
Freedom of Speech, December 2, 2003: This post.
that is a damn ignorant opinion. Mac OS is solid. Hardly "crap". You obviously have a pro athlon bias, for whatever reason. Certainly you also have some awful longevity and reliability malfunction to run Windows XP and Linux on Athlons.
I've worked in the industry for four years and I've seen many athlons, NONE of which have been in the data center because of their gross unreliability. Who cares if an intel box is $50 more expensive???!?! Mission critical systems deserve an extra $50!
Back to your original statement, however, Apple does not make crap. Their operating system is well designed, well implemented, built on a solid foundation, and leaps and bounds ahead of windows and linux in the UI department. Calling it crap only reduces your comment to a bias-driven bucket of suck.
aha you bastard, ancient technology. every week a decwriter prints out checks for every employee at the huge school department i work for. one night the sucker blew and my check hadn't printed yet. I did the same thing. Well, almost the same thing. i used a peice of the tin foil i had my sandwich wrapped in.
only ever installed vax/vms ~4 using one of those, i didn't actually realize people wrote code using them.
i'm pretty amused that you call something i still support ancient technology.
oh, btw, this was after they stopped paying out OT, so after my check printed i popped the modified fuse back out and went home. my last name starts with a B.. haha, suckas.
You and the submitter both do absolutely no work all day long. You shouldn't be surprised when your jobs are exported.
/. at 3:24. I've done almost nothing all day. Fat, lazy, american pig. I wonder why the CIO is meeting with those Indian suits?
Fat lazy american pigs.
Oh, I'm one too. Also notice my posting on
6. Apply for a patent. You will get the patent, is too easy these days.
/. crowd. Yes, when it comes to SOFTWARE patents the USPTO is f'n up feircely.
What bothers me here is that are trying to drum up karma by catering to the USPTO sucks, and lawsuits suck
Solar sail technology is legitimately patentable even though it is gritting on the nerves of those who have not made a considerable investment in the development of anything ever.
Readers and contributers to this site seriously need to learn that it takes capital investment to drive an economy. I can not understand how some people complain of an economic slump, specifically in the IT sector, and in the same breath make outrageous claims like software and information should be free.
Yes, SCO sucks. I know. They do, and I'm sick of reading out them. But remember, there are people there who are going to lose their jobs.
If you invested millions into a technology nobody else has wouldn't you like some guarantee that you have the ability to return the investment?
RTFM.
I got a 5 watt FM transmitter a few years ago, scavenged mic, repaired a mixer, built an antenna. I ran a coax from the basement to the garage, and put the antenna up on the roof. I had a couple hundred MP3s that I'd downloaded on a 56kbps before the days of napster.
After a few hours I decided this was no longer any fun because nobody was listening. I tried to sell the whole rig on Ebay. It got delisted and I was told it was contraband.
Come to find out, after I RTFM, the whole thing was very illegal and I would have been looking at several hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for FCC licensing violations, antenna placement procesdures, song licensing, and several others. Well I took the whole rig down and was thankful I didn't get cought.
The whole experience was kind of fun. I don't remember where I put the transmitter, though. Perhaps it's cemented into the patio.
Perhaps you are a zealot. I use Mozilla right beside IE. Actually, I use Mozilla's e-mail client. I will quote you and say that it is quite simply, just better...than outlook [express]. But the performance of the browser is awful. It's clunky, ugly, and quite unusable. Tabs are nice, and so is pop-up blocking, but who cares if its crashy and unresponsive way more often than IE.
That's my opinion, of course. I'm no Microsoft junkie, and I'm certainly not a fanboy, whatever that means. I do know that IE on Windows is a better browser than Mozilla, and I only wish it was a simple task to teach IE that I want Mozilla Mail for mailto: URLs and teach Mozilla that I want IE for http: URLs.
I use a Mac at work, and man, I was so glad when Safari came out. Mozilla on the mac is a steaming pile of crap. IE is no better. Both are sluggish and tired. Unfortunately Mozilla Mail is the only e-mail client that has encryption for e-mail.
Also I am saying Mozilla but I've used the Netscape builds too and what I'm saying holds true. I'm not a zealot, I use the best tool for the job. On a Windows box, the best way to browse is to open IE. Mozilla is my #1 choice on Solaris and Linux, that's for sure.
Perhaps the benchmarks and fanfare are only being used to push those who were interested in purchasing a Mac for the OS but were not going to spend $3000 on a G4 when a G5 was expected.
Those who are deeply entrenched are not going to switch sides because of a benchmarks. There are still people swearing that AMD chips are faster than Intel chips, and when the benchmarks show they are then the Intel fans will swear it's not true. Blah blah blah. Who cares?
People use Macs for reasons other than Benchmakrs against Intel/AMD chips. I have used PCs for a very long time, but I have also been using Mac OS X at work and as often as I could. It really is a terrifically designed system which offers significant benefits. The only thing holding me back what the overpriced G4. Now there is nothing, thank you Apple.
The FBI is an executive agency. I thought the agency is directed by the president. Legislature makes laws, executive enforces laws, and judicial interprets laws. I do not understand how or why the Congress would be detailing the enforcement of particular laws. Certainly Copyright law itself would already fall under the jurisdiction of the FBI. And would thusly be at the will of the presidency to either enforce or ignore. Does anyone have any ideas since IANAL?
You totally missed the point! If a blonde hottie breaks into your house and takes off her clothes, but there's nobody there to watch, then how do you know she's naked?
X10.
I appreciate that you do but I need to ask, Why?
The higest tier is 600VAC three phase. Then below that is 120VAC service which goes into homes and things. That's why there are huge transformers sitting between two appropriately distanced wires.
As the subject says. The card just doesn't work for more than 10 minutes. Value edition, feh.
Otherwise this is a really good idea, I thought about doing it myself. I was trying to record the simpsons but my whole system just froze up. Tried all the drivers, different video cards, not worth it.
My boss purchased a unit which has VHS and a DVD burner on it for around $600. Very high quality recordings too. He found it in an electronics catalog or something, he talks a lot though so I don't remember the specifics.
Nothing I'm sure Google can't help you with.