I'd be surprised if Windows 7 really was a huge re-working of the OS. It seems like they are following the same path they did when they released Windows 98. 98 looked and felt almost identical to 95, but had enough improvements that it made people want to switch.
The first thing I thought of when I read that page in the comic was the difference between Mac OS and Windows. In the Mac, the menu bar is always at the top and changes to match the current program, the same way that the address bar is always on top and changes to match the current tab. In Windows, the menu bar is a part of the program itself and moves or resizes with the program.
I'm not sure that one in inherently better than the other; it will be a matter of what a person is used to.
It became the way to do things when ghosting and imaging and network speeds all got good enough to work together. I can spend hours trying to run down why one computer out of 100 identical computers is having a problem or I can push the image down with ghost and have it back up and running in about 20 minutes, assuming the problem isn't actual hardware failure. I've got better things to do with my time and the end user gets a faster answer.
It's different if all computers of a class are having identical problems, but for the one offs, just image it and get on with things.
But if the software isn't written for the users, what is it written for? If it is just written purely for the author's use, then don't bother creating a community. By creating a community with feedback and interaction with the user base, the project is no longer "write a gaim replacement" it has morphed into "create a piece of software for my community." If you don't care about what the users think, don't release the software and build up pidgin.im with its forums and a promise of support and development.
Too bad this isn't like a software maintenance plan. In those cases, you at least own whatever the current version is if you stop paying the licensing.
Just out of curiosity, which of the 3 examples were you thinking wouldn't hold up in court?
The first example, about monitoring all communications and tracking is pretty close to Google's own licenses.
The second example is close to one we ran into where the license said for non-commercial use only. The software's writer said he meant that to be interpreted as a personal computer at home, not a registered non-profit entity. We probably would have won if it had ever actually been adjudicated, but we just found other software to do the job.
There are lot's of contracts and licenses that bind people to a jurisdiction. Makes it easier for the big corporation if there's a problem. Credit cards do this all the time, really any time a company does business across state lines the contract outlines which state laws will control the adjudication of disputes. Dealing with international companies just means your dealing with country laws instead of state laws.
The only things you can't contract for are things that are illegal, like the murder example. You could make a valid legal contract that said you agreed to paint a person's house for $1, slave wages. You'd be stupid, but the contract would probably be ruled valid.
Well, let's say that an employee downloads a piece of software with a license agreement that allows the software manufacturer to monitor all the data the users produces, what websites the user visits, and gives the software manufacturer the right to keep that information in perpetuity. By installing the software on google computers as an employee of google, google is now bound by that license. So sensitive company information ends up being stored on the software manufacturer's computers in perpetuity. And if the license gives the software manufacturer the right to read the information you've got a really nasty can of worms.
Or how about an employee who downloads a piece of software that is only to be installed on the employee's personal computer. The employee installs it on a work computer, thinking that it is the employee's computer and is only using it for personal use. That's wrong and suddenly Google gets audited and sued for illegal software usage.
Or even better, the software manufacturer makes the legal venue the laws of Lichtensteinavania, where the user has no rights at all.
I know, I know, the slashdot response is switch to gpl, but that isn't always an option.
I've actually run into all of these software licensing issues at my job.
I'm not sure the questions were that interesting. Or rather, they weren't questions that a General could easily answer publicly. GIGO. Just because they were the highest rated questions doesn't mean they were the best to ask a General.
The question on most favored nation status for China or determining what counts as an act of war isn't one that is decided by the military. Only Congress can declare war. Most favored nation trading status is a construct of the government. Where it was appropriate, he pointed out that there are laws that determine the military's behavior. Unless he also works for the JAG, he really isn't in a position to summarize all of those laws.
One the other hand, he did answer the questions about older recruits, physical ability and so forth adequately.
For the type of questions he was asked and the forum that they were asked in, he did a good job of answering as best he could.
This is true, except that what is optimal for me may not be optimal for you. Humans are too squishy -- we have habits that we've picked up over the years, physical differences, skill differences, etc.
Yeah, you would get a discount if there were a flat fee to enter the park and then you had to buy A-E tickets for the different rides. If a crappy ride was one A ticket and the cool rides were the E ticket, you'd only have to pay for the tickets for the rides you wanted.
Yes, the monthly updates will get most of the service pack. That's one of the two reasons that the windows update version should only be around 50 megs for a fully patched computer vs. 1 gig for the standalone install: sp1 will rollup already released patches. The other big reason is that the 1 gig version has all of the language files included. You won't download the Japanese language versions of the files from windows update if all you need is English. The 1 gig file will let admins push out just one file to client computers, during a downtime period of course, and know that everything that's needed will be installed.
I've got Firefox, ultramon, two remote desktop sessions, outlook 207, mmc, a few explorer folders, and 4 windows gadgets running and my physical memory is at 57%, 1.14 gb out of 2.
The iPhone is evil, and I will never own one until I have full control over the software on it. And if Apple doesn't want to give it to me, then I don't need to 'buy' their device, if you can be said to own something you can't even replace the software on.
Just out of curiousity, can you replace the software that runs your microwave? Your car? Your stove?
Sorry, but the Dell diagnostics can be run from a boot floppy/usb/cdrom. No need to run them in the installed os.
Plus complete care shouldn't care. If the problem is that you can't run the diagnostics, run it over with your car. That's covered under complete care and they shouldn't expect you to be able to run diagnostics.;)
I think people are getting confused by the/. blurb. This article is not a review, it is a case study. This company is describing the process that it went through months ago in determining which software to use. That's why some of the versions are out of date. That's why they quickly discounted software packages that didn't work with their existing infrastructure. If you read the very first paragraph it tells you that they had very specific design constraints and that's why some packages weren't evaluated fully. You simply don't have that in a review.
A case study is supposed to give an overview of the decision making process and the implementation phases of the project. And that's exactly what this does. They goal was never to produce a document that gave an objective evaluation of the products, it was to show the decision making process they went through in their evaluation. No where does the Dr. Dobb's site call this a review.
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I uninstall Symantec Corporate Edition all the time. Works a treat.
We've got an AV server and all of our clients are managed. We set the server up to check Symantec every two hours for updates and those updates are pushed down to the clients almost immediately.
Need to install all of your clients to the latest version (say from 9 -> 10)? Click Tools | Install Client Remotely and push it down from a central location.
We check our clients and any computer that is more than a week out of date is turned on and updated.
The only reason I can think of that so many people are complaining is because they've only used the consumer version. When we get student laptops we immediately remove it and install the corporate version that is free for them. I've never had a problem uninstalling the trialware version of the AV that ships with so many laptops.
Why does IE7 no longer work with the runas command? What was the thinking behind "breaking" the runas feature?
Some background for people who aren't familiar with runas:
Sometimes I need to browse the network as an administrator while logged in as a non-admin. With IE6, I can type "runas/user:domain\username cmd" to launch a command prompt and then run c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore and then browse to \\servername\sharename as my admin user. Very handy when I need to move a file from one user's area to another's.
But after I installed IE7 final on my test machine, this no longer works. Running ie7 as an admin user, whether by right clicking on the exe and picking run as or running it from a cmd line launched as a admin user, no longer let's me browse network shares or local drives as an admin user. This is really frustrating.
I get calls from people asking about emails from banks that they don't even do business with!
Them: I got a message from XYZ bank that my account is frozen. Do you think it is a scam? Me: Do you have an account with XYZ? Them: No, I've never done any business with them. Me: Then you can be very sure it's a scam.
Easy, shove a.reg file to the machine to disable access to that tab. Easy to bypass, yes. For a geek. But for a general user, not quite so easy for them.
GPO. Then they can't bypass it because the setting will be re-applied.
Also, you can edit one of firefox files that's just plain text to hide those menu settings. It's been awhile since I've done it, but if you do a search for firefox and kiosk you should find the instructions.
The current school systems are already being pumped cash, but still show horrible results. Especially when compared to private schools.
That simply isn't true. The report came out a couple of months ago from a government study that privately run charter school students scored lower than public school students. The report didn't get a lot of press for obvious reasons. Here's the first google news link I found:
Slashdot Mirror
I'd be surprised if Windows 7 really was a huge re-working of the OS. It seems like they are following the same path they did when they released Windows 98. 98 looked and felt almost identical to 95, but had enough improvements that it made people want to switch.
The first thing I thought of when I read that page in the comic was the difference between Mac OS and Windows. In the Mac, the menu bar is always at the top and changes to match the current program, the same way that the address bar is always on top and changes to match the current tab. In Windows, the menu bar is a part of the program itself and moves or resizes with the program.
I'm not sure that one in inherently better than the other; it will be a matter of what a person is used to.
Once I learned how to use it properly, I've grown to like it.
What do people hate about it? I'm genuinely curious.
It became the way to do things when ghosting and imaging and network speeds all got good enough to work together. I can spend hours trying to run down why one computer out of 100 identical computers is having a problem or I can push the image down with ghost and have it back up and running in about 20 minutes, assuming the problem isn't actual hardware failure. I've got better things to do with my time and the end user gets a faster answer.
It's different if all computers of a class are having identical problems, but for the one offs, just image it and get on with things.
But if the software isn't written for the users, what is it written for? If it is just written purely for the author's use, then don't bother creating a community. By creating a community with feedback and interaction with the user base, the project is no longer "write a gaim replacement" it has morphed into "create a piece of software for my community." If you don't care about what the users think, don't release the software and build up pidgin.im with its forums and a promise of support and development.
Too bad this isn't like a software maintenance plan. In those cases, you at least own whatever the current version is if you stop paying the licensing.
Just out of curiosity, which of the 3 examples were you thinking wouldn't hold up in court?
The first example, about monitoring all communications and tracking is pretty close to Google's own licenses.
The second example is close to one we ran into where the license said for non-commercial use only. The software's writer said he meant that to be interpreted as a personal computer at home, not a registered non-profit entity. We probably would have won if it had ever actually been adjudicated, but we just found other software to do the job.
There are lot's of contracts and licenses that bind people to a jurisdiction. Makes it easier for the big corporation if there's a problem. Credit cards do this all the time, really any time a company does business across state lines the contract outlines which state laws will control the adjudication of disputes. Dealing with international companies just means your dealing with country laws instead of state laws.
The only things you can't contract for are things that are illegal, like the murder example. You could make a valid legal contract that said you agreed to paint a person's house for $1, slave wages. You'd be stupid, but the contract would probably be ruled valid.
Well, let's say that an employee downloads a piece of software with a license agreement that allows the software manufacturer to monitor all the data the users produces, what websites the user visits, and gives the software manufacturer the right to keep that information in perpetuity. By installing the software on google computers as an employee of google, google is now bound by that license. So sensitive company information ends up being stored on the software manufacturer's computers in perpetuity. And if the license gives the software manufacturer the right to read the information you've got a really nasty can of worms.
Or how about an employee who downloads a piece of software that is only to be installed on the employee's personal computer. The employee installs it on a work computer, thinking that it is the employee's computer and is only using it for personal use. That's wrong and suddenly Google gets audited and sued for illegal software usage.
Or even better, the software manufacturer makes the legal venue the laws of Lichtensteinavania, where the user has no rights at all.
I know, I know, the slashdot response is switch to gpl, but that isn't always an option.
I've actually run into all of these software licensing issues at my job.
I'm not sure the questions were that interesting. Or rather, they weren't questions that a General could easily answer publicly. GIGO. Just because they were the highest rated questions doesn't mean they were the best to ask a General.
The question on most favored nation status for China or determining what counts as an act of war isn't one that is decided by the military. Only Congress can declare war. Most favored nation trading status is a construct of the government. Where it was appropriate, he pointed out that there are laws that determine the military's behavior. Unless he also works for the JAG, he really isn't in a position to summarize all of those laws.
One the other hand, he did answer the questions about older recruits, physical ability and so forth adequately.
For the type of questions he was asked and the forum that they were asked in, he did a good job of answering as best he could.
This is true, except that what is optimal for me may not be optimal for you. Humans are too squishy -- we have habits that we've picked up over the years, physical differences, skill differences, etc.
Yeah, you would get a discount if there were a flat fee to enter the park and then you had to buy A-E tickets for the different rides. If a crappy ride was one A ticket and the cool rides were the E ticket, you'd only have to pay for the tickets for the rides you wanted.
Yes, the monthly updates will get most of the service pack. That's one of the two reasons that the windows update version should only be around 50 megs for a fully patched computer vs. 1 gig for the standalone install: sp1 will rollup already released patches. The other big reason is that the 1 gig version has all of the language files included. You won't download the Japanese language versions of the files from windows update if all you need is English. The 1 gig file will let admins push out just one file to client computers, during a downtime period of course, and know that everything that's needed will be installed.
I've got Firefox, ultramon, two remote desktop sessions, outlook 207, mmc, a few explorer folders, and 4 windows gadgets running and my physical memory is at 57%, 1.14 gb out of 2.
The iPhone is evil, and I will never own one until I have full control over the software on it. And if Apple doesn't want to give it to me, then I don't need to 'buy' their device, if you can be said to own something you can't even replace the software on.
Just out of curiousity, can you replace the software that runs your microwave? Your car? Your stove?
Even if he is listening to Beethoven, the individual performance of the piece is copyrighted.
That Mondas is the 10th planet. Duh.
As does RIP, Remove It Permanently. Took me a while to find the right place to click for the annoying video though.
Sorry, but the Dell diagnostics can be run from a boot floppy/usb/cdrom. No need to run them in the installed os.
;)
Plus complete care shouldn't care. If the problem is that you can't run the diagnostics, run it over with your car. That's covered under complete care and they shouldn't expect you to be able to run diagnostics.
I think people are getting confused by the /. blurb. This article is not a review, it is a case study. This company is describing the process that it went through months ago in determining which software to use. That's why some of the versions are out of date. That's why they quickly discounted software packages that didn't work with their existing infrastructure. If you read the very first paragraph it tells you that they had very specific design constraints and that's why some packages weren't evaluated fully. You simply don't have that in a review.
A case study is supposed to give an overview of the decision making process and the implementation phases of the project. And that's exactly what this does. They goal was never to produce a document that gave an objective evaluation of the products, it was to show the decision making process they went through in their evaluation. No where does the Dr. Dobb's site call this a review.
I uninstall Symantec Corporate Edition all the time. Works a treat.
We've got an AV server and all of our clients are managed. We set the server up to check Symantec every two hours for updates and those updates are pushed down to the clients almost immediately.
Need to install all of your clients to the latest version (say from 9 -> 10)? Click Tools | Install Client Remotely and push it down from a central location.
We check our clients and any computer that is more than a week out of date is turned on and updated.
The only reason I can think of that so many people are complaining is because they've only used the consumer version. When we get student laptops we immediately remove it and install the corporate version that is free for them. I've never had a problem uninstalling the trialware version of the AV that ships with so many laptops.
Why does IE7 no longer work with the runas command? What was the thinking behind "breaking" the runas feature?
/user:domain\username cmd" to launch a command prompt and then run c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore and then browse to \\servername\sharename as my admin user. Very handy when I need to move a file from one user's area to another's.
Some background for people who aren't familiar with runas:
Sometimes I need to browse the network as an administrator while logged in as a non-admin. With IE6, I can type "runas
But after I installed IE7 final on my test machine, this no longer works. Running ie7 as an admin user, whether by right clicking on the exe and picking run as or running it from a cmd line launched as a admin user, no longer let's me browse network shares or local drives as an admin user. This is really frustrating.
DC will sell you one for $25. The Planet Krypton set of 5 was only $100 and had Hal, Kyle, Alan, Sinestro and Power Ring versions.
I get calls from people asking about emails from banks that they don't even do business with!
Them: I got a message from XYZ bank that my account is frozen. Do you think it is a scam?
Me: Do you have an account with XYZ?
Them: No, I've never done any business with them.
Me: Then you can be very sure it's a scam.
Easy, shove a .reg file to the machine to disable access to that tab. Easy to bypass, yes. For a geek. But for a general user, not quite so easy for them.
GPO. Then they can't bypass it because the setting will be re-applied.
Also, you can edit one of firefox files that's just plain text to hide those menu settings. It's been awhile since I've done it, but if you do a search for firefox and kiosk you should find the instructions.
The current school systems are already being pumped cash, but still show horrible results. Especially when compared to private schools.
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That simply isn't true. The report came out a couple of months ago from a government study that privately run charter school students scored lower than public school students. The report didn't get a lot of press for obvious reasons. Here's the first google news link I found:
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/9765/1/338