Those that are visually impaired have the tools to view the site appropriately. For example, my 89-year old father-in-law uses the magification feature in Opera, which (correctly) magnifies both text and graphics.
The only thing you have to do, as others have pointed out, is make sure that the code is accessible (for use with text-mode browsers, for the seriously visually impaired), and browser neutral.
> But as far as I know, I never heard of the big guys (think HP, IBM, GE, P&G etc) got raided. Why is that?
Usually, it's because the larger companies purchase site licenses instead of individual copies. Site licenses (for most products) cost too much for small companies, but are more cost effective on a per seat basis.
At least that was the case until I heard that the licenses cannot be transferred as an asset during a merger or acquisition (have to re-license).
As a result, site licenses may not be such a good idea in the current economy.
... on mainframes in the old days. The idea of a benchmark is to determine how your workload will perform on a given platform. The key here is "your workload". Using synthetic benchmarks is a great way to determine relative performance, if your workload is running synthethic benchmarks. For most people this isn't the case.
The problem is that every workload will have a different I/O and instruction mix. Each instruction has a different execution time, and the performance of I/O devices is frequently a function of the access patterns to data.
As a result, a synthetic benchamrk may be a poor indicator of the result from the actual execution of your individual workload. These benchmarks are intended to provide guidance, and potentially identify platform performance bottlenecks. That's all. Reading any more into them is the fault of those that use the results improperly.
How many hours of Redhat support did you use last year? Divide the number of hours into the support contract cost. If the hourly rate is over $100, (and I'm betting it will be way over) consider getting on-demand support from independent consultants, instead of using a pre-paid contract. Some consultants will even let you buy reasonable (e.g., 10 hour) blocks of support time, which you can use in small (5-15 minute) increments. You have MANY support options. Explore them to see which will save you the most.
Use any savings for training. As your in-house expertise increases, your support costs will decrease. The nice thing about Linux is you only have to pay for the support you need. Too many companies forget that.
Learn to use Google effectively too; 99.9% of all Linux questions I get in a year have already been answered, and are just a quick inquiry away.
If they didn't even have a person verify (and they obviously didn't), isn't this libelous? They are indicating that an individual or group are involved in illegal activity. This is obviously "A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule."
I agree absolutely! When handheld, mobile, IP phones based on 802.11/a/b/g are available with a nationwide infrastructure, they will have the potential to replace cell phones.
This SIP phone isn't a candidate for that environment, unfortunately. All it is, is another thethered phone. As such, it's competing for the rapidly decreasing revenue from traditional landline telephones.
If they had made it into a cell phone-like 802.11 unit, I would have been in the cheering section.
Broadband over power lines is running a high frequency signal over unshielded, untwisted wire, for miles. Hmm, who would have thought that could cause radio interference? Maybe the power companies (and the equipment manufacturers) should have thought about this for a bit longer.
It's one thing to run fiber to the curb, and use a low-power signal to the home - that might be workable. It's basically what the hybrid fiber coax cable systems do, but their wire is shielded too.
If the equipment is generating this much RF interference, I don't see how the equipment could be certified for deployment. If it is certified, I'd be interested to know what agency put their mark on it.
Let's see... the lowest cost unit in the roundup is $70, and it's replacing:
- 3 feet of wire,
- an earphone, and
- a microphone,
which is available at my local dollar store. Yes, for one dollar (cash American) I can get the same wired earbud/microphone that came with my Motorola phone (free), except without the logo.
WiFi at least keeps people from having to ruin a perfectly good weekend or two, drilling holes in walls and fishing cables. But Bluetooth???
I've never understood why someone would want to replace a high security, exquisitely simple, low cost device with a complex, battery consuming, expensive, insecure device. It's not like you have the option of running SSH or IPSEC over Bluetooth, even if you wanted to.
Besides, earphones are cool! You wear them with sunglasses and you look like a narc.:-)
If this came out before the cellular boom, then it might have had a chance. Cellular has become the lifeblood of business. The company I worked for even put cellular repeaters in the building to insure a good signal. Many of the local retail businesses, and especially malls, have done the same.
Most cellular companies now either offer affordable unlimited calling plans, or unlimited calling between cell phones on the same service. You are no longer tied to your desk, and for many, that means they no longer have a desk, once you add 802.11a/b/g to the mix.
People are cancelling their land lines at a significant rate. This is just another landline. The paradym has changed; the phone number is no longer associated with a fixed location, but rather a mobile person.
> And if it was H2O.99999973 , we'd know what CPU
they used to count it with....
This was a funny, but it's also very true. People forget that the instrumentation used is also subject to error. I once spent a day hunting down a network problem, only to realize that the test equipment was creating the error, not the equipment under test. All the same model equipment from that manufacturer had the flaw, which we proved with test equipment from two other manufacturers.
The 5-6 theaters we frequent are all about the same in this area. They're not typical of all the theaters on the planet, but they are typical for where I live.
I have been on trips to other parts of the USA, and many theaters are better (by far, the best was at Pleasure Island in DisneyWorld).
The problem is that I'm not likely to travel 1000 miles to insure a great experience, just to see a movie. Since none of the organizations (THX, Regal, Lowes, Clearview) are interested in improving the situation in this area, that's what I have to work with.
I'd much rather see a movie in a great theater, but failing that, I'd prefer to see it on my home system DVD. With the lack of quality in the local theaters, DVD is my best option.
I hate replying to my own post, but I forgot my favorite part of the rant.:-)
As soon as the credits start, the threater staff comes in and tries to chase everyone out. We always stay through the credits (for the occasional "Easter Egg"). Even when there is a known extra following the credits (like in the Matrix Reloaded), they still try to force people out by starting to sweep around and in front of them.
At the Matrix Reloaded, one of the theater people smacked a guy in the head with the broom. They lucked out; he wasn't the litigious type.
I've never sued anyone in my life, but I would have sued over that. They had no business even being in the theater until the movie was over. The movie's not over until after the credits have finished.
We frequent about a half dozen theaters, from different chains. It's the same in all of them in this area. Going to the movies has really become a sucky experience.
The theaters are so filthy, we go there early to find a clean seat. We used to be able to hold a conversation before the movie. While the theater showed a slideshow accompanied by music, it was quiet. Now, there's 20 minutes of commercials, followed by 10-15 minutes of trailers before the movie, and it's so loud you can't talk over it.
The sound systems are always broken or set improperly (front speakers only). The movie is never in sharp focus (no, it's not my eyes). If there's a problem, you have to wait 15 minutes for the projectionist to show up. We recently watched part of a film burn up, because there was no one in the booth. When there is a problem, they skip ahead to keep the movie on schedule, so you miss part. Sure, if you complain they will give you another ticket, but that's two hours of your time.
I've called the THX number and emailed the theaters to complain, but nothing is improving. Of course, the admission price is going up. It now costs less to buy the DVD than it costs for my wife and I to see the movie in the theater, and we get several hours of extras on the disk.
We obviously loved going to the movies, but with the increasing cost and reduction in quality, it's hard to justify. I can see why people are bootlegging the movies.
If the MPAA wants to stop the bootlegging, they should just release the DVD at the same time as the movie is in the theaters. Let the market decide how they want to see the film.
Our local (NY, NJ, CT) WB affiliate ran a poll the other day, and their result was that 92% think it's OK to share copyrighted files using P2P systems.
As they reported that number, the anchor's comment was, "As you'd expect..". I guess he thought it was OK too.:-)
We were installing Linux desktops at AT&T about 4 years ago, and I doubt our group was the first (by a long shot). There are a lot more Linux desktops out there than anyone knows. By definition, Linux is a "stealth" OS. No license, no registration, and interoperable with almost any environment. By the time IT departments get around to certifying Linux for desktop use, the conversion will be done.:-)
The problem is that you are blocking the IM client on the work machine. If the work machine uses SSH to start the application remotely, all you see is SSH. Since SSH can be configured to run on any port, unless you block all ports (i.e., no Internet access), this method can't be stopped.
For example, say an employer only allowed outgoing web requests. I would configured an SSH server on my home machine on port 80. As far as anything in the path was concerned, the SSH tunnel was an HTTP transaction.
I could then run any application on my home machine, including IM clients, personal email, web browsing prohibited sites, etc., completely secure from evesdropping by my employer.
...Unless all Internet access is blocked, to prevent any IM from being used. Remember, you can always SSH to a home server (using any port you want to configure) and start an IM client via the encrypted tunnel. If you are going to check all data transfer on all ports to/from the Internet, you might as well just block it all. It's the "clever" end-users that know how to do this that are your real worry.
Everyone remembers the paper ballot fun in Florida, right?
Long before there was electronic voting, there was vote tampering. You think the l337 hax0rz are fast are reverse engineering; they've got nothing on those that want to manipulate the vote.
Hanging chads, missing boxes of ballots, spontaneously discovered boxes of ballots, invalidated ballots, you name it.
Anyone that thinks that paper is secure is too gullable.
I wonder how many unlicensed copies of software are running around the MPAA offices, movie studios, and the homes of those poor folks being impacted by movie piracy.
No, muLinux with fvwm95. The distribution is an amazing collection of tight packages, scripted equivalents and even hand coded assembly language replacement utilities. It really is responsive (much more so than my Pentium-133 with 80MB RAM running a minimal Redhat 9 with X (used as an X-terminal, no local wm or apps). Picking the right tools really makes all the difference.
I've just this weekend completed installation of muLinux on an old 25MHz 486SX laptop with 8MB of RAM and a 500MB hard drive that I got for free (because the previous owner thought it was trash). It weights about 4 pounds, and has a TFT color 640x480 screen. I'm now browsing the web, reading email, and SSHing into my server with it. It's very usable.
I have to wonder why so much perfectly good equipment goes to waste, while people lust after new machines, so that their CPU idle time can go from 99% to 99.5%. Especially among the./ geeks, who probably have top end machines already.
Seriously people, if you want to play a game, get a game console. If you want some REAL fun, install Linux with just a floppy drive.:-)
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Those that are visually impaired have the tools to view the site appropriately. For example, my 89-year old father-in-law uses the magification feature in Opera, which (correctly) magnifies both text and graphics.
The only thing you have to do, as others have pointed out, is make sure that the code is accessible (for use with text-mode browsers, for the seriously visually impaired), and browser neutral.
Usually, it's because the larger companies purchase site licenses instead of individual copies. Site licenses (for most products) cost too much for small companies, but are more cost effective on a per seat basis.
At least that was the case until I heard that the licenses cannot be transferred as an asset during a merger or acquisition (have to re-license).
As a result, site licenses may not be such a good idea in the current economy.
... on mainframes in the old days. The idea of a benchmark is to determine how your workload will perform on a given platform. The key here is "your workload". Using synthetic benchmarks is a great way to determine relative performance, if your workload is running synthethic benchmarks. For most people this isn't the case.
The problem is that every workload will have a different I/O and instruction mix. Each instruction has a different execution time, and the performance of I/O devices is frequently a function of the access patterns to data.
As a result, a synthetic benchamrk may be a poor indicator of the result from the actual execution of your individual workload. These benchmarks are intended to provide guidance, and potentially identify platform performance bottlenecks. That's all. Reading any more into them is the fault of those that use the results improperly.
How many hours of Redhat support did you use last year? Divide the number of hours into the support contract cost. If the hourly rate is over $100, (and I'm betting it will be way over) consider getting on-demand support from independent consultants, instead of using a pre-paid contract. Some consultants will even let you buy reasonable (e.g., 10 hour) blocks of support time, which you can use in small (5-15 minute) increments. You have MANY support options. Explore them to see which will save you the most.
Use any savings for training. As your in-house expertise increases, your support costs will decrease. The nice thing about Linux is you only have to pay for the support you need. Too many companies forget that.
Learn to use Google effectively too; 99.9% of all Linux questions I get in a year have already been answered, and are just a quick inquiry away.
Seriously. Hunt them down, and kill them. If they are going to ruin your life, you might as well have some fun with their entrails.
After a couple of us crazies "settle accounts", I think you'll have a hard time finding someone willing to commit identity theft again.
If they didn't even have a person verify (and they obviously didn't), isn't this libelous? They are indicating that an individual or group are involved in illegal activity. This is obviously "A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule."
In other words, exactly what companies seem to want these days.
I agree absolutely! When handheld, mobile, IP phones based on 802.11/a/b/g are available with a nationwide infrastructure, they will have the potential to replace cell phones.
This SIP phone isn't a candidate for that environment, unfortunately. All it is, is another thethered phone. As such, it's competing for the rapidly decreasing revenue from traditional landline telephones.
If they had made it into a cell phone-like 802.11 unit, I would have been in the cheering section.
Broadband over power lines is running a high frequency signal over unshielded, untwisted wire, for miles. Hmm, who would have thought that could cause radio interference? Maybe the power companies (and the equipment manufacturers) should have thought about this for a bit longer.
It's one thing to run fiber to the curb, and use a low-power signal to the home - that might be workable. It's basically what the hybrid fiber coax cable systems do, but their wire is shielded too.
If the equipment is generating this much RF interference, I don't see how the equipment could be certified for deployment. If it is certified, I'd be interested to know what agency put their mark on it.
Let's see... the lowest cost unit in the roundup is $70, and it's replacing:
:-)
- 3 feet of wire,
- an earphone, and
- a microphone,
which is available at my local dollar store. Yes, for one dollar (cash American) I can get the same wired earbud/microphone that came with my Motorola phone (free), except without the logo.
WiFi at least keeps people from having to ruin a perfectly good weekend or two, drilling holes in walls and fishing cables. But Bluetooth???
I've never understood why someone would want to replace a high security, exquisitely simple, low cost device with a complex, battery consuming, expensive, insecure device. It's not like you have the option of running SSH or IPSEC over Bluetooth, even if you wanted to.
Besides, earphones are cool! You wear them with sunglasses and you look like a narc.
Most cellular companies now either offer affordable unlimited calling plans, or unlimited calling between cell phones on the same service. You are no longer tied to your desk, and for many, that means they no longer have a desk, once you add 802.11a/b/g to the mix.
People are cancelling their land lines at a significant rate. This is just another landline. The paradym has changed; the phone number is no longer associated with a fixed location, but rather a mobile person.
This was a funny, but it's also very true. People forget that the instrumentation used is also subject to error. I once spent a day hunting down a network problem, only to realize that the test equipment was creating the error, not the equipment under test. All the same model equipment from that manufacturer had the flaw, which we proved with test equipment from two other manufacturers.
The 5-6 theaters we frequent are all about the same in this area. They're not typical of all the theaters on the planet, but they are typical for where I live.
I have been on trips to other parts of the USA, and many theaters are better (by far, the best was at Pleasure Island in DisneyWorld).
The problem is that I'm not likely to travel 1000 miles to insure a great experience, just to see a movie. Since none of the organizations (THX, Regal, Lowes, Clearview) are interested in improving the situation in this area, that's what I have to work with.
I'd much rather see a movie in a great theater, but failing that, I'd prefer to see it on my home system DVD. With the lack of quality in the local theaters, DVD is my best option.
As soon as the credits start, the threater staff comes in and tries to chase everyone out. We always stay through the credits (for the occasional "Easter Egg"). Even when there is a known extra following the credits (like in the Matrix Reloaded), they still try to force people out by starting to sweep around and in front of them.
At the Matrix Reloaded, one of the theater people smacked a guy in the head with the broom. They lucked out; he wasn't the litigious type.
I've never sued anyone in my life, but I would have sued over that. They had no business even being in the theater until the movie was over. The movie's not over until after the credits have finished.
We frequent about a half dozen theaters, from different chains. It's the same in all of them in this area. Going to the movies has really become a sucky experience.
The theaters are so filthy, we go there early to find a clean seat. We used to be able to hold a conversation before the movie. While the theater showed a slideshow accompanied by music, it was quiet. Now, there's 20 minutes of commercials, followed by 10-15 minutes of trailers before the movie, and it's so loud you can't talk over it.
The sound systems are always broken or set improperly (front speakers only). The movie is never in sharp focus (no, it's not my eyes). If there's a problem, you have to wait 15 minutes for the projectionist to show up. We recently watched part of a film burn up, because there was no one in the booth. When there is a problem, they skip ahead to keep the movie on schedule, so you miss part. Sure, if you complain they will give you another ticket, but that's two hours of your time.
I've called the THX number and emailed the theaters to complain, but nothing is improving. Of course, the admission price is going up. It now costs less to buy the DVD than it costs for my wife and I to see the movie in the theater, and we get several hours of extras on the disk.
We obviously loved going to the movies, but with the increasing cost and reduction in quality, it's hard to justify. I can see why people are bootlegging the movies.
If the MPAA wants to stop the bootlegging, they should just release the DVD at the same time as the movie is in the theaters. Let the market decide how they want to see the film.
Our local (NY, NJ, CT) WB affiliate ran a poll the other day, and their result was that 92% think it's OK to share copyrighted files using P2P systems.
:-)
As they reported that number, the anchor's comment was, "As you'd expect..". I guess he thought it was OK too.
We were installing Linux desktops at AT&T about 4 years ago, and I doubt our group was the first (by a long shot). There are a lot more Linux desktops out there than anyone knows. By definition, Linux is a "stealth" OS. No license, no registration, and interoperable with almost any environment. By the time IT departments get around to certifying Linux for desktop use, the conversion will be done. :-)
...hacked yet?
No!
Is it hacked yet?
No!
Is it hacked yet?
No!
Is it hacked yet?
Fine! Yes, it's hacked! Are you happy now?
Does it run Linux yet?
Arrrrgh!
The problem is that you are blocking the IM client on the work machine. If the work machine uses SSH to start the application remotely, all you see is SSH. Since SSH can be configured to run on any port, unless you block all ports (i.e., no Internet access), this method can't be stopped.
:-)
For example, say an employer only allowed outgoing web requests. I would configured an SSH server on my home machine on port 80. As far as anything in the path was concerned, the SSH tunnel was an HTTP transaction.
I could then run any application on my home machine, including IM clients, personal email, web browsing prohibited sites, etc., completely secure from evesdropping by my employer.
SSH is one of the greatest tools of all time.
...Unless all Internet access is blocked, to prevent any IM from being used. Remember, you can always SSH to a home server (using any port you want to configure) and start an IM client via the encrypted tunnel. If you are going to check all data transfer on all ports to/from the Internet, you might as well just block it all. It's the "clever" end-users that know how to do this that are your real worry.
Everyone remembers the paper ballot fun in Florida, right?
Long before there was electronic voting, there was vote tampering. You think the l337 hax0rz are fast are reverse engineering; they've got nothing on those that want to manipulate the vote.
Hanging chads, missing boxes of ballots, spontaneously discovered boxes of ballots, invalidated ballots, you name it.
Anyone that thinks that paper is secure is too gullable.
I wonder how many unlicensed copies of software are running around the MPAA offices, movie studios, and the homes of those poor folks being impacted by movie piracy.
No, muLinux with fvwm95. The distribution is an amazing collection of tight packages, scripted equivalents and even hand coded assembly language replacement utilities. It really is responsive (much more so than my Pentium-133 with 80MB RAM running a minimal Redhat 9 with X (used as an X-terminal, no local wm or apps). Picking the right tools really makes all the difference.
Absolutely true -- I'm running X on a 25MHz 486SX with 8MB of RAM, and X is very responsive.
I have to wonder why so much perfectly good equipment goes to waste, while people lust after new machines, so that their CPU idle time can go from 99% to 99.5%. Especially among the ./ geeks, who probably have top end machines already.
Seriously people, if you want to play a game, get a game console. If you want some REAL fun, install Linux with just a floppy drive. :-)