Serious admins are probably using Microsoft Outlook tied to some form of Exchange Server. I know it hurts to think it, but Microsoft has the market share in that area, and if you look up the meaning of "market share" it becomes obvious what the majority of admins are using.:-)
Sure...but how many are behind *nix mail gateways?
Now, assume Microsoft bails EDS out, and there is no reason why not, because you can bet they'll send a bunch of temps to every DWP office at EDS' expense if they have too. In a nutshell, Microsoft gets a PR coup: "We've just bailed out out a leading *cough* solution provider! Now imagine that had been, say, a Linux deployment... Who could EDS have called then?" Given the excellent grasp of PR, spin and FUD Microsoft has, I don't think this is going to help break the Microsoft stranglehold at all.
And me without mod points (so mod parent up!). I think you're exactly right...sadly.
What's with all this "Microsoft should patch this", "Microsoft should patch that". I am NOT a pro Microsoft person, but they made SP2 for a reason. If SP2 fixes it, why in the hell should they go back and patch an older version? If you don't like SP2 that's your problem, but if you want to actually get the latest updates, use it. Don't complain if sticking with SP1 (or no SP) is going to stop you from getting any security fixes.
There's an OS besides XP, sweetie. As long as people like Dell sell machines with Win2k because Microsoft still licenses it they have an obligation to fix it.
...I remember that someone else had that trademark "Excel" back then and that's why it was always "Microsoft Excel" never just "Excel." It wasn't that MS was sloppy; someone already had it.
Customers avoid intrusive practices; although this story was written by the Washington Post and I have the URL to the original story available, I declined to link to washingtonpost.com because of their intrusive registration.
That's morally no different than someone buying an outfit, wearing it and returning it for credit (or not, in this case). You have no problem with leeching their content for free. As registrations go, the Post's is pretty benign.
What kind of data mining are they going to do? Someone as paranoid^h^h^h^h^hcautious are you could surely be clever enough to make something up? But even that's halfway sleazy (vs your total sleaziness).
The Post isn't a charity, sweetheart. Neither is any other online newspaper. If you don't like the fact that there's some minimal price to be paid either remain (more) ignorant or get off your ass and pay the $1.50 for the Sunday paper.
Ain't that the truth. I read the below this morning and while some of the observations were trenchant ("All politicians are liars"), opting out of the system isn't the proper conclusion.
As someone who watched the game it means that Bush will win the election and then it'll be overturned in favor of Kerry by the judges. That would be the exact parallel with the game.
The remark about MS patches is just blatant flamebait. Flamebait??? Rare is the MS admin who hasn't had a patch kill a server--I know it's happened to me. The web server might be Linux, but there's more to Paypal than a web server, no?
I wish I had gotten the "Please Move Along..."
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...cuz a Paypal outage is neither "News for Nerds" and certainly not "Stuff That Matters."
That being said, I wonder if they deployed tomorrow's MS patches and went boom.:-)
its the other way around, microsoft stifles innovation
It's not even that. Neither M$ nor "open source" are particularly innovative. In fact, the most innovative thing about "open source" is the model itself, not any results from it. Too much is taking what everyone else has done and trying to do it better, sometimes succeeding and sometimes not.
I'd really like to see real investigators in action like those of Spamhaus (for example) who have entire biographies and histories of spammers. Guys who are geeks, not paper pushers (so to speak).
Leave the classics alone. It's not possible or him to exceed the above linked movie. Or, is this a John Ashcroft advocacy piece? HEY, is this new meaning for "-1 Flamebait?"
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Serious admins are probably using Microsoft Outlook tied to some form of Exchange Server. I know it hurts to think it, but Microsoft has the market share in that area, and if you look up the meaning of "market share" it becomes obvious what the majority of admins are using. :-)
Sure...but how many are behind *nix mail gateways?
...and serious admins aren't exposing Windows to the internet to accept mail. But that's ZDNet for you....
From their Standards for E-Mail Delivery [aol.com]:
AOL's mail servers will reject connections from any IP address that does not have reverse DNS (a PTR record).
And what RFC is that defined in? Right....
Now, assume Microsoft bails EDS out, and there is no reason why not, because you can bet they'll send a bunch of temps to every DWP office at EDS' expense if they have too. In a nutshell, Microsoft gets a PR coup: "We've just bailed out out a leading *cough* solution provider! Now imagine that had been, say, a Linux deployment... Who could EDS have called then?" Given the excellent grasp of PR, spin and FUD Microsoft has, I don't think this is going to help break the Microsoft stranglehold at all.
And me without mod points (so mod parent up!). I think you're exactly right...sadly.
What's with all this "Microsoft should patch this", "Microsoft should patch that". I am NOT a pro Microsoft person, but they made SP2 for a reason. If SP2 fixes it, why in the hell should they go back and patch an older version? If you don't like SP2 that's your problem, but if you want to actually get the latest updates, use it. Don't complain if sticking with SP1 (or no SP) is going to stop you from getting any security fixes.
There's an OS besides XP, sweetie. As long as people like Dell sell machines with Win2k because Microsoft still licenses it they have an obligation to fix it.
...I remember that someone else had that trademark "Excel" back then and that's why it was always "Microsoft Excel" never just "Excel." It wasn't that MS was sloppy; someone already had it.
....buried 500 paragraphs into a EULA that the user "consented" to be monitored?
TigerDirect has actual stores.
You be wrong, fool.
Bite me. 5 "outlet stores" just doesn't compare.
Compare their prices to prices from NewEgg or TigerDirect.
You can't do that. They don't have the overhead that a brick and mortar. Compare to a Circuit City or something like that.
...can be bought in open source politics?
Customers avoid intrusive practices; although this story was written by the Washington Post and I have the URL to the original story available, I declined to link to washingtonpost.com because of their intrusive registration.
That's morally no different than someone buying an outfit, wearing it and returning it for credit (or not, in this case). You have no problem with leeching their content for free. As registrations go, the Post's is pretty benign.
What kind of data mining are they going to do? Someone as paranoid^h^h^h^h^hcautious are you could surely be clever enough to make something up? But even that's halfway sleazy (vs your total sleaziness).
The Post isn't a charity, sweetheart. Neither is any other online newspaper. If you don't like the fact that there's some minimal price to be paid either remain (more) ignorant or get off your ass and pay the $1.50 for the Sunday paper.
I like my Windows boxes junkware-free, thanks (oxymoron noted).
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Oxymoron noted from my spyware-free linux box on my desk at work. When I go home, I'll note that oxymoron from my spyware-free Mac, too.
I guess that would only affect 40% of us though.
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Ain't that the truth. I read the below this morning and while some of the observations were trenchant ("All politicians are liars"), opting out of the system isn't the proper conclusion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3439-20
As someone who watched the game it means that Bush will win the election and then it'll be overturned in favor of Kerry by the judges. That would be the exact parallel with the game.
They seem to be able to master phishing and obfuscated code, but they just can't get the English language:
Sounds like CDR Taco who mastered perl's syntax, but not that of American English.
....Win2k patched fine. Another Tuesday Patch roulette over with....
The remark about MS patches is just blatant flamebait. Flamebait??? Rare is the MS admin who hasn't had a patch kill a server--I know it's happened to me. The web server might be Linux, but there's more to Paypal than a web server, no?
...cuz a Paypal outage is neither "News for Nerds" and certainly not "Stuff That Matters."
:-)
That being said, I wonder if they deployed tomorrow's MS patches and went boom.
its the other way around, microsoft stifles innovation
It's not even that. Neither M$ nor "open source" are particularly innovative. In fact, the most innovative thing about "open source" is the model itself, not any results from it. Too much is taking what everyone else has done and trying to do it better, sometimes succeeding and sometimes not.
I'd really like to see real investigators in action like those of Spamhaus (for example) who have entire biographies and histories of spammers. Guys who are geeks, not paper pushers (so to speak).
This was pedantic in the extreme.
The legendary John Shirley? I've never heard of him, nor has my sci-fi addicted wife.
Do we get to find out what happens to Saruman? Or does he go "poof" like "The Scouring of the Shire" did, too?
Cooking Foreigners
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"'To Serve Man'..It's a cookbook!!!
That's what your line reminded me of.
...how about a damned spoiler alert.....:-(
Leave the classics alone. It's not possible or him to exceed the above linked movie.
Or, is this a John Ashcroft advocacy piece? HEY, is this new meaning for "-1 Flamebait?"