Beyond that, though, It's not like any one existing anti-spyware software provides a 100% solution. Not that I'd trust Microsoft to be my sole line of defense against profit-oriented businesses. Is Gator^H^H^H^H^HClaria spyware? CometCursor? Depends on who you ask.
"Unacceptable server down time, maxed network storage, and no backups systems...
I don't know your situation...
Dude, hang up your hat and start gardening, if you can't diagnose that they're running Exchange from that description, you're either very lucky and have never had to deal with Exchange, or shouldn't be posting at/.;)
Mod parent up -- this is a Very Important issue -- we shell out huge bucks for OSes, A-V, firewalls, ad infinitum, with the marketspeek saying "This not only protects you from everything, it will butter your toast, too!" -- yet this is translated in legalese click-throughs as "We aren't liable if this product not only doesn't do what it is marketed to do, but for no apparent reason causes your network to melt. Oh, and it greases your goatse hole, too!"
Yeah, 'cause Red Hat certainly became the best Linux version when it was reasonably far out in the lead.
The strength of Linux is that it's not a monopoly system like Microsoft. There are lots of options depending on what exactly you're looking to do. Dell should figure out what most users of their desktop systems want out of their computers (Corp/Govt vs Home Office vs Gamers) and choose (K)Ubuntu^H^H^H^H^H^Ha distro or three that best support those needs, in a way not dissimilar to Windows product lines, I'm not going to by 2k3 Server for WoW playing, or WinXPHome for hosting a website. (to be fair, I wouldn't choose Windows anything for hosting a website, but that's beyond the point here). Dell is hiding behind this excuse, when really, they should just choose one and move on.
Exactly the point. OK, it's military; there are good and valid reasons to proxy internet connections. pr0n sites, l33t haxx0R sites, and so on provide some bad security problems. Also, do you want General_Joe.Navy.Mil turning up in the web logs of Not_yet_legal_teens.com?
But censoring, blatantly, one half of the political spectrum is... questionable.
Well, NASA has this problem of not keeping their budget from being cut...
Also, it comes from a deep desire from both the Houston and Cape Canaveral bases to have a rusting shuttle sitting on their front lawn "for spare parts"
True, half the course for copy-right, half the course for F/LOSS/GPL/CC/Copy-Left/Public-Domain, what the differences are, what their implications are, a whole lecture series on Disney and the infinite copyright, and what it means for the public domain, and why the only thing you'll ever see on TVs in movies and TV shows are Really Old Videos.
But will this happen? No, it'll be inundated by "free" pre-packaged lessons by the RIAA/MPAA and related friendly institutions with polished and shiney powerpoints and media kits and homework and tests included... as long as they're presented verbatim, without any mention of "GPL" or other communistic ideologies.
Well, if "Microsoft Domain Mgmt" was in your resume, you might be stuck.
I think what really needs to happen is you asking your management about this, and work something out. What shouldn't happen is you buying a Win2k3 CD and lots of books and burning your weekends playing with a test server without compensation. Do OJT training, get a library set up for IT and buy the books, etc. It sounds like you're a pretty big shop, so eventually some consultants (from MS or otherwise) might be useful to do some bootstrap training. There's an optimal solution, find it.
Hell, they can replace half of the workload with some regex script that checks for a few inflamatory comments and common misspellings/l33tsp33k... Of course it's the whole content providor dilemma, if you screen at all, you're responsible for content.
I feel that he's avoiding (not missing, mind you) an underlying problem of conflicting interests:
User: I want information on X Search Engine: I want to give users information about X and advertise services related to X Websites: I want users to become involved at my website that contains content about X
Users want a quick answer, Websites want them to spend some time, sign up/login/register/ignore the "subscribe to newsletter" checkbox being pre-checked, whereas Search Engines want to provide things that look like the answer as best/fastest as possible (and also throw some ads around it). If websites don't want so much leeching from search engines, they must become better known, get a solid brand and offer good and complete information.
A good example -- If I want information about a perl script, I know from experience and recommendation that I can go straight to perl.com or perlmonks and probably find the best answer, and more focused than a google search will generally provide. However, if I'm trying to find help about Random Microsoft Bug #8000436531, experience recommends that I avoid Microsoft.com (which you'd think would be the logical choice) as google will generally return more useful answers and **solutions** and viewpoints, whereas MS will provide only the MS-recommended approach, which may or may not take into account other issues (I love it when the help guide tells you to use a menu feature that's just Not There -- very helpful, thanks)
So, I'd recommend websites, if they're complaining about search engines sucking their users away, should ponder if there's a reason why the user would want to stay at their site -- is it comprehensive? Do you expire/charge for content? Do you require annoying registration? Move all that further back! Make content acquisition easier, and users will want to go straight to a known-good source rather than sifting through Search Engine results.
One side claims "will of the people" and the other side claims "pyramid scheme". Look at the distribution of wealth and tell me which is more likely to fit the model.
That might be one of the most insightful comments on/. I've seen (OK, not always lots of competition...)
Also, paraphrasing conversation with a higher-ed administrator talking about his discussions with policy makers:
Policy Maker: We keep cutting education because they keep being able to survive -- proving that there's lots of cruft
Educator:...ever think that it is one of the few funded categories where a very large chunk of its administration are Ph.Ds and non-MBA Masters graduates?
Hm. I have to say if I ever encountered a bank that wouldn't let me use firefox, I'd complain a lot in the process of closing my accounts and moving to a more competitive bank (or, more likely, credit union).
Requiring IE to use online banking is like requiring that you only use ATMs in high-crime areas after dark. Free toaster with every tenth carjacking!
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Beyond that, though, It's not like any one existing anti-spyware software provides a 100% solution. Not that I'd trust Microsoft to be my sole line of defense against profit-oriented businesses. Is Gator^H^H^H^H^HClaria spyware? CometCursor? Depends on who you ask.
"Unacceptable server down time, maxed network storage, and no backups systems...
/. ;)
I don't know your situation...
Dude, hang up your hat and start gardening, if you can't diagnose that they're running Exchange from that description, you're either very lucky and have never had to deal with Exchange, or shouldn't be posting at
Mod parent up -- this is a Very Important issue -- we shell out huge bucks for OSes, A-V, firewalls, ad infinitum, with the marketspeek saying "This not only protects you from everything, it will butter your toast, too!" -- yet this is translated in legalese click-throughs as "We aren't liable if this product not only doesn't do what it is marketed to do, but for no apparent reason causes your network to melt. Oh, and it greases your goatse hole, too!"
It is what you might say, a problem.
That'd NEVER happen!
Opera has the embedded market / cell phones and such, IIRC
Yeah, 'cause Red Hat certainly became the best Linux version when it was reasonably far out in the lead.
The strength of Linux is that it's not a monopoly system like Microsoft. There are lots of options depending on what exactly you're looking to do. Dell should figure out what most users of their desktop systems want out of their computers (Corp/Govt vs Home Office vs Gamers) and choose (K)Ubuntu^H^H^H^H^H^Ha distro or three that best support those needs, in a way not dissimilar to Windows product lines, I'm not going to by 2k3 Server for WoW playing, or WinXPHome for hosting a website. (to be fair, I wouldn't choose Windows anything for hosting a website, but that's beyond the point here). Dell is hiding behind this excuse, when really, they should just choose one and move on.
Exactly the point. OK, it's military; there are good and valid reasons to proxy internet connections. pr0n sites, l33t haxx0R sites, and so on provide some bad security problems. Also, do you want General_Joe.Navy.Mil turning up in the web logs of Not_yet_legal_teens.com?
... questionable.
But censoring, blatantly, one half of the political spectrum is
I beleive everyone gets a copy of the UCMJ.
I think I just clicked "I Accept" when I got to that screen on the sign-up process...
Personally, I'd prefer the Nintendo light gun so I could go all Cheney on the spam.
A gripe probably lost on /. read0rz, but:
This unique mechanism offers a significantly higher level of security then existing technology.
s/then/than/
when I first read the article summary, I thought it said:
"SCO announced a new MLM called "Me Inc." suing the EdgeClick platform"
But now I see that instead they're going after cell-sms-spam, that's much more on the up-and-up
Well, NASA has this problem of not keeping their budget from being cut...
Also, it comes from a deep desire from both the Houston and Cape Canaveral bases to have a rusting shuttle sitting on their front lawn "for spare parts"
True, half the course for copy-right, half the course for F/LOSS/GPL/CC/Copy-Left/Public-Domain, what the differences are, what their implications are, a whole lecture series on Disney and the infinite copyright, and what it means for the public domain, and why the only thing you'll ever see on TVs in movies and TV shows are Really Old Videos.
... as long as they're presented verbatim, without any mention of "GPL" or other communistic ideologies.
But will this happen? No, it'll be inundated by "free" pre-packaged lessons by the RIAA/MPAA and related friendly institutions with polished and shiney powerpoints and media kits and homework and tests included
Well, if "Microsoft Domain Mgmt" was in your resume, you might be stuck.
I think what really needs to happen is you asking your management about this, and work something out. What shouldn't happen is you buying a Win2k3 CD and lots of books and burning your weekends playing with a test server without compensation. Do OJT training, get a library set up for IT and buy the books, etc. It sounds like you're a pretty big shop, so eventually some consultants (from MS or otherwise) might be useful to do some bootstrap training. There's an optimal solution, find it.
Also, they're keeping Google's bottom line much more impressive than it would be with a billion dollars of salary tacked on.
Hell, they can replace half of the workload with some regex script that checks for a few inflamatory comments and common misspellings/l33tsp33k... Of course it's the whole content providor dilemma, if you screen at all, you're responsible for content.
I feel that he's avoiding (not missing, mind you) an underlying problem of conflicting interests:
User: I want information on X
Search Engine: I want to give users information about X and advertise services related to X
Websites: I want users to become involved at my website that contains content about X
Users want a quick answer, Websites want them to spend some time, sign up/login/register/ignore the "subscribe to newsletter" checkbox being pre-checked, whereas Search Engines want to provide things that look like the answer as best/fastest as possible (and also throw some ads around it). If websites don't want so much leeching from search engines, they must become better known, get a solid brand and offer good and complete information.
A good example -- If I want information about a perl script, I know from experience and recommendation that I can go straight to perl.com or perlmonks and probably find the best answer, and more focused than a google search will generally provide. However, if I'm trying to find help about Random Microsoft Bug #8000436531, experience recommends that I avoid Microsoft.com (which you'd think would be the logical choice) as google will generally return more useful answers and **solutions** and viewpoints, whereas MS will provide only the MS-recommended approach, which may or may not take into account other issues (I love it when the help guide tells you to use a menu feature that's just Not There -- very helpful, thanks)
So, I'd recommend websites, if they're complaining about search engines sucking their users away, should ponder if there's a reason why the user would want to stay at their site -- is it comprehensive? Do you expire/charge for content? Do you require annoying registration? Move all that further back! Make content acquisition easier, and users will want to go straight to a known-good source rather than sifting through Search Engine results.
Yeah, but sunbird's nowhere near as far along as Thunderbird, it's far too buggy right now to get included.
Before their shipping department got slashdotted?
One side claims "will of the people" and the other side claims "pyramid scheme". Look at the distribution of wealth and tell me which is more likely to fit the model.
/. I've seen (OK, not always lots of competition...)
...ever think that it is one of the few funded categories where a very large chunk of its administration are Ph.Ds and non-MBA Masters graduates?
That might be one of the most insightful comments on
Also, paraphrasing conversation with a higher-ed administrator talking about his discussions with policy makers:
Policy Maker: We keep cutting education because they keep being able to survive -- proving that there's lots of cruft
Educator:
In Soviet Russia, procrastination doesn't get around to YOU!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of procrastinators... it'd be the "Deep Blue" of the foosball circuit!
I'll get back to the Korea one later.
Hm. I have to say if I ever encountered a bank that wouldn't let me use firefox, I'd complain a lot in the process of closing my accounts and moving to a more competitive bank (or, more likely, credit union).
Requiring IE to use online banking is like requiring that you only use ATMs in high-crime areas after dark. Free toaster with every tenth carjacking!
Aolbatross! Dead Aolbatross for sale!
And some good side-scrollers, too, gosh-darnit!
I need my Contra/CastleVania/Rush'n'Attack fix!
The man's been married for a while now. By this point, slashdot is the only thing left in his life over which he has any control...
I can't begin to imagine why...