a few things: 1) physically locked cases 2) password-protected BIOSs 3) chassis intrusion detection (on every Dell where I work) Like others are saying, this is by no means the be-all and end-all of corporate security, just one more layer.
Also, if possible, imagine you're seeing the movie for the first time. You haven't seen the trilogy. You didn't dress up like Han four Halloweens in a row. Hell, you haven't even seen an Indiana Jones movie yet, and as a 10-year-old, you surely didn't watch American Graffiti a few years earlier. You don't know Harrison Ford from a hole in the wall and you don't know Han is a great guy. He ices some ugly green dude minutes before he agrees to take Ben & Luke on a ride. We know something they don't. We worry for their safety in this lunatics hand's. Etc etc etc.
Jesus, I'm posting to SW:EP4 threads. Anything to take my mind off Ivan, I guess.
I thought the best-looking face in the first FF movie was the old guy. His skin had lots of imperfections and was the most real looking. Everyone else was flawless 20-year-olds that just looked fake, like a wax sculpture or something.
I'm in Orlando right now. (The reason I'm on/. instead of preparing is because I'm at work.:-) ) That said, if I find a big rocket or something on my lawn after Frances leaves, I am so totally gonna put in on eBay. Or else trade it on/. for a GMail invite.
The problem is, the tools that I use to share songs with friends are the same tools that others use to share songs with thousands. So, they want to ban all the tools. I hope the head of the RIAA never gets assaulted with a baseball bat--if that happens, there goes our (the US's) national pasttime.
And they're sending out mixed (pardon the pun) messages--rarely do you hear about "fair use" from the RIAA. All you hear is "don't share" and "our ultimate goal is for you to give us money everytime you experience a recording in any manner." The number 1 FAQ on the RIAA's home page *should* be, "I hear a lot about how copying music is bad. When is sharing OK, and when is it infringement?"
If you find something of yours that shouldn't be online, and you have access to the server, the best thing to do is put up an empty document with the same name.
Contacting google to remove their 'hit' on it could take a while, and remember--there *are* other search engines out there. If the doc just disappears, it'll stay in Google's cache (and who knows who else's) for who knows how long.
However, if a doc with the same name and same location still exists but has little, no, or bogus data, the engines will suck up this new worthless copy the next time they come 'round and the good copy in their cache will be overwritten with the new worthless copy.
I have written dozens of small web/DB apps. Phone lists, surveys, vendor databases, etc. A few were replacements of FMP/Access stuff. Most were pretty tame--a few tables, no intense relations. If your "database apps" are more like "lots of lists that many people can edit"--i.e., stuff that could be done in Excel if there were only one user--I would recommend going the php/mysql route.
1) phpmyadmin is a great front-end for you (the admin) to create sinple databases with. Web forms are relatively easy to make.
2) start with a small DB and convert them one at a time. As you go you'll probably find there's lots of code you can use over and over. A database is 99% of the time only a few small things--new record, delete record, edit record, clone record, show records. I couldn't code an app from memory because I copy & paste and use PHP includes all over the place. I've written functions I haven't touched in a couple years.
3) multi-page printable views will always be tricky unless you're running a binary app. single-page through a browser isn't too bad, especially if you can control which browsers are used, and since you're a school (i.e., company, not just ine Internet at large) you should be able to narrow that down to one Windows and one Mac browser. (Hint: Mozilla, Safari.) Another way to go is to use Excel (or the spreadsheet of your choice), make a template page, then use the app's databsae tools. In Excel, it's 'data - get external data - run web query.' If you've got Excel, you've got as much control as you could want over the presentation.
4) Re: your point 4: Don't think that everyone will freak out at the new UI. Try to give it a similar feel--dropdowns where dropdowns are, similar layout, etc.--but beyond that, you shouldn't need to worry too much. Everyone I know (and I work in a large company with a wiiiide range of users) is comfortable with web forms. In fact, they're *more* used to them than custom FMP or Access screens. I've done some complicated stuff for some dumb people, and even they are OK with "type things on this screen, then click here to see everything sorted by X".
5) I know you've got some wonky (your word, I think) databases. I'm sure some are tame. Maybe move some now and the rest later?
6) If you need help selling this, comment the hell out of your code to prevent "but what if you get hit by a bus" objections. Make it so anyone with 6 months of PHP could make it work. Write clean code. Indent. Comment every line that doesn't start with 'print' or 'echo'.:-)
That's why I said "(kinda)" re: NBK. You can still see glimpses of him in there, and it was one of the First Four and fun to play "Ooh, look, this guy Scangneti has the same name as this guy in Res Dogs."
And you're right, I forgot to mention Jackie Brown. Honest mistake, probably because I hated it.
Besides, NBK has a killer soundtrack.
But hey, I'm not arguing with you. Everyone has opinions. Besides, who am I to argue with the man who made "2001"?;-)
"Back up your iTunes collection or make a mix CD for that special someone. [emphasis added]"
Um, that would be a CD full of songs to which you own the copyright, right? Riiiiight...
Now, before we get into the "slashdotters don't have teh g1rlfriends LOL OMG BBQ" jokes, or the "my iMac is my special someone" crowd, I'd like to say that this just really, really makes me sick. You can't have it both ways. We are either allowed to share music, or we aren't. (I know Apple != RIAA etc., but they are a Large Corporate Entity, and presumably wouldn't encourage something that is 100% against the wishes of the **AA) So what's the deal? I can see it now: "All Combo-drive Macs come with Shrink! Share your DVDs with your friends!"
Kevin Smith is a more skilled storyteller than Tarantino? You must've missed True Romance. Funny that both have only done a handful of files: QT had Res Dogs, Trues Romance, Naturla Born Killers (kinda), Pulp, and Bill I & II. KS had Clerks, Mallrats, Amy, Dogma, J & SB, Jersey Girl, and now this. Also they both started around the same time: Res in 1992 and Clerks in 1994. And they both started with really low-budget (almost Mastercard-level) films. (Res had a bit more, but I think Clerks actually *was* a credit-card movie.) And they both put a lot of cusswords into their scripts. Wow, never realized how much they had in common.
Or Apple's spotlight which, for example, *parses words in PDFs*. Steve demoed this at the WWDC. While looking for things re: Yosemite or Tahoe or whatever, it found a PDF map of CA or NV with the being-searched-for region in it.
You would think, but these are the same admins who a) don't bother to check for dupes before posting and b) refuse to make valid HTML in the first place. I mean, c'mon, the work has already been done.
it is quite pretty--mmm, gradients--but every link on the page is light brown on white, and article title is in a gradient, which is dark enough at the top but winds up being white-on-light-brown by the bottom. White + light brown = low contrast. Maybe my monitor's a bit bright, maybe my gamma is off, or maybe my eyes are bad, but like you said, I'm hardly alone. No sense mentioning people with actual visual disabilities.
Even Apple, supposed masters of great design, recognize a loser when they see one--after all, they eventually dumped that round mouse, right?
I haven't used Gnome or KDE in forever. Has anyone gotten around to, I don't know, just making the Windows key *work* in either environment? You know, a press pops open the foot/K menu, windows-R brings up Run, windows-E brings up KFM or whatever, windows-F brings up Find, etc etc etc? I mean, it's just keybindings, right? Can't be that hard, but evidently it was too revolutionary to do last time I checked (2000). Personally, I use the hell out of the Windows key... and hardly ever hit it by accident.:-)
And Cut, Copy, and Paste have been F-keys on various platforms for I don't know how long, but I've never met a person in my life who used them for that since c-C, c-X, and c-V became common. I mean, God, I use those keys about a million times a day, why the *hell* would I want them moved *away* from the main group of keys? Stupid.
I could just imagine the lens of your camera phone being like HAL, staring at you, tracking you. When it discovers you plan on taking out the cellphone battery to stop it, it calls the mental institution to whisk you away.
No big deal, that's a solved problem--just go into a soundproof room when you discuss your plans to get rid of her. The first version can't read lips, remember?
There was a really good show about the boats on the History Channel (or one of them) just last week. since it was expected that many would be blown to bits on their maiden voyage, they weren't even built up to the standards of the day. It was known *at the time* that rivets were better for ships than welds (since they allowed the ship to flex in rough seas, while welds were rigid and would snap) but welds were faster and it's better to get 10 welded ships onto the water and heading towards the enemy than one properly-riveted ship. "quantity has a quality all its own"--and that goes double during wartime.
despite this, many ships survived (only about 10% were sunk, compared to over predictions of over 50%) and quite a few were used for decades.
Sorry, but I can't believe you got modded as 'insightful'. (well, actually, this is/., so I guess I can.)
Look at google. A large cluster, and if one of the machines dies, you don't worry about it.
The most important thing to remember about Google is that they deal with NON-CRITICAL INFORMATION. Who cares if you get different results when looking for Janet Jackson Superbowl pics from one day to the next, or even one hour to the next? You're getting scads of results, most are probably good, so you're happy and think Google is perfect. Google's *actual* reliability and consistancy would get them NOWHERE in banking or airline reservations, let along weather prediction, nuclear blast modeling, etc etc etc. Just because a computer can do one job well does not mean it can do another, same way that Indy cars make really lousy drag racers and Top Fuel cars don't turn laps at the brickyard.
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a few things:
1) physically locked cases
2) password-protected BIOSs
3) chassis intrusion detection (on every Dell where I work)
Like others are saying, this is by no means the be-all and end-all of corporate security, just one more layer.
Also, if possible, imagine you're seeing the movie for the first time. You haven't seen the trilogy. You didn't dress up like Han four Halloweens in a row. Hell, you haven't even seen an Indiana Jones movie yet, and as a 10-year-old, you surely didn't watch American Graffiti a few years earlier. You don't know Harrison Ford from a hole in the wall and you don't know Han is a great guy. He ices some ugly green dude minutes before he agrees to take Ben & Luke on a ride. We know something they don't. We worry for their safety in this lunatics hand's. Etc etc etc.
Jesus, I'm posting to SW:EP4 threads. Anything to take my mind off Ivan, I guess.
I thought the best-looking face in the first FF movie was the old guy. His skin had lots of imperfections and was the most real looking. Everyone else was flawless 20-year-olds that just looked fake, like a wax sculpture or something.
...with 7 hard drives in a cardboard box wrapped in plastic. Greetings from Savannah!
I'm in Orlando right now. (The reason I'm on /. instead of preparing is because I'm at work. :-) ) That said, if I find a big rocket or something on my lawn after Frances leaves, I am so totally gonna put in on eBay. Or else trade it on /. for a GMail invite.
The problem is, the tools that I use to share songs with friends are the same tools that others use to share songs with thousands. So, they want to ban all the tools. I hope the head of the RIAA never gets assaulted with a baseball bat--if that happens, there goes our (the US's) national pasttime.
And they're sending out mixed (pardon the pun) messages--rarely do you hear about "fair use" from the RIAA. All you hear is "don't share" and "our ultimate goal is for you to give us money everytime you experience a recording in any manner." The number 1 FAQ on the RIAA's home page *should* be, "I hear a lot about how copying music is bad. When is sharing OK, and when is it infringement?"
If you find something of yours that shouldn't be online, and you have access to the server, the best thing to do is put up an empty document with the same name.
Contacting google to remove their 'hit' on it could take a while, and remember--there *are* other search engines out there. If the doc just disappears, it'll stay in Google's cache (and who knows who else's) for who knows how long.
However, if a doc with the same name and same location still exists but has little, no, or bogus data, the engines will suck up this new worthless copy the next time they come 'round and the good copy in their cache will be overwritten with the new worthless copy.
I have written dozens of small web/DB apps. Phone lists, surveys, vendor databases, etc. A few were replacements of FMP/Access stuff. Most were pretty tame--a few tables, no intense relations. If your "database apps" are more like "lots of lists that many people can edit"--i.e., stuff that could be done in Excel if there were only one user--I would recommend going the php/mysql route.
:-)
1) phpmyadmin is a great front-end for you (the admin) to create sinple databases with. Web forms are relatively easy to make.
2) start with a small DB and convert them one at a time. As you go you'll probably find there's lots of code you can use over and over. A database is 99% of the time only a few small things--new record, delete record, edit record, clone record, show records. I couldn't code an app from memory because I copy & paste and use PHP includes all over the place. I've written functions I haven't touched in a couple years.
3) multi-page printable views will always be tricky unless you're running a binary app. single-page through a browser isn't too bad, especially if you can control which browsers are used, and since you're a school (i.e., company, not just ine Internet at large) you should be able to narrow that down to one Windows and one Mac browser. (Hint: Mozilla, Safari.) Another way to go is to use Excel (or the spreadsheet of your choice), make a template page, then use the app's databsae tools. In Excel, it's 'data - get external data - run web query.' If you've got Excel, you've got as much control as you could want over the presentation.
4) Re: your point 4: Don't think that everyone will freak out at the new UI. Try to give it a similar feel--dropdowns where dropdowns are, similar layout, etc.--but beyond that, you shouldn't need to worry too much. Everyone I know (and I work in a large company with a wiiiide range of users) is comfortable with web forms. In fact, they're *more* used to them than custom FMP or Access screens. I've done some complicated stuff for some dumb people, and even they are OK with "type things on this screen, then click here to see everything sorted by X".
5) I know you've got some wonky (your word, I think) databases. I'm sure some are tame. Maybe move some now and the rest later?
6) If you need help selling this, comment the hell out of your code to prevent "but what if you get hit by a bus" objections. Make it so anyone with 6 months of PHP could make it work. Write clean code. Indent. Comment every line that doesn't start with 'print' or 'echo'.
That's why I said "(kinda)" re: NBK. You can still see glimpses of him in there, and it was one of the First Four and fun to play "Ooh, look, this guy Scangneti has the same name as this guy in Res Dogs."
;-)
And you're right, I forgot to mention Jackie Brown. Honest mistake, probably because I hated it.
Besides, NBK has a killer soundtrack.
But hey, I'm not arguing with you. Everyone has opinions. Besides, who am I to argue with the man who made "2001"?
from: http://www.apple.com/imac/:
"Back up your iTunes collection or make a mix CD for that special someone. [emphasis added]"
Um, that would be a CD full of songs to which you own the copyright, right? Riiiiight...
Now, before we get into the "slashdotters don't have teh g1rlfriends LOL OMG BBQ" jokes, or the "my iMac is my special someone" crowd, I'd like to say that this just really, really makes me sick. You can't have it both ways. We are either allowed to share music, or we aren't. (I know Apple != RIAA etc., but they are a Large Corporate Entity, and presumably wouldn't encourage something that is 100% against the wishes of the **AA) So what's the deal? I can see it now: "All Combo-drive Macs come with Shrink! Share your DVDs with your friends!"
Kevin Smith is a more skilled storyteller than Tarantino? You must've missed True Romance.
Funny that both have only done a handful of files:
QT had Res Dogs, Trues Romance, Naturla Born Killers (kinda), Pulp, and Bill I & II.
KS had Clerks, Mallrats, Amy, Dogma, J & SB, Jersey Girl, and now this.
Also they both started around the same time: Res in 1992 and Clerks in 1994. And they both started with really low-budget (almost Mastercard-level) films. (Res had a bit more, but I think Clerks actually *was* a credit-card movie.) And they both put a lot of cusswords into their scripts. Wow, never realized how much they had in common.
Or Apple's spotlight which, for example, *parses words in PDFs*. Steve demoed this at the WWDC. While looking for things re: Yosemite or Tahoe or whatever, it found a PDF map of CA or NV with the being-searched-for region in it.
You would think, but these are the same admins who a) don't bother to check for dupes before posting and b) refuse to make valid HTML in the first place. I mean, c'mon, the work has already been done.
it is quite pretty--mmm, gradients--but every link on the page is light brown on white, and article title is in a gradient, which is dark enough at the top but winds up being white-on-light-brown by the bottom. White + light brown = low contrast. Maybe my monitor's a bit bright, maybe my gamma is off, or maybe my eyes are bad, but like you said, I'm hardly alone. No sense mentioning people with actual visual disabilities.
Even Apple, supposed masters of great design, recognize a loser when they see one--after all, they eventually dumped that round mouse, right?
Why can't the powers-that-be accept the fact that a LOW CONTRAST COLOR SCHEME IS HARD TO READ and change it?
quicktime penetration... there's a joke in there somewhere. :-)
And the best way to keep viruses off your LAN in the first place is by creating a second network for PHBs and salesdorks with laptops. :-)
With any luck, they'll nuke it.slashdot.org first.
"With all of these new recording format options made available to the public, how can any consumer intelligently know which one to buy into?"
Easy: wait 6 months and buy a +/- drive.
I haven't used Gnome or KDE in forever. Has anyone gotten around to, I don't know, just making the Windows key *work* in either environment? You know, a press pops open the foot/K menu, windows-R brings up Run, windows-E brings up KFM or whatever, windows-F brings up Find, etc etc etc? I mean, it's just keybindings, right? Can't be that hard, but evidently it was too revolutionary to do last time I checked (2000). Personally, I use the hell out of the Windows key... and hardly ever hit it by accident. :-)
And Cut, Copy, and Paste have been F-keys on various platforms for I don't know how long, but I've never met a person in my life who used them for that since c-C, c-X, and c-V became common. I mean, God, I use those keys about a million times a day, why the *hell* would I want them moved *away* from the main group of keys? Stupid.
You know that's what EMACS stands for, right? 'Esc-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift'
;-)
:-) )
(Yes, I know, it really came from Editing MACroS. Save your reply.
I could just imagine the lens of your camera phone being like HAL, staring at you, tracking you. When it discovers you plan on taking out the cellphone battery to stop it, it calls the mental institution to whisk you away.
No big deal, that's a solved problem--just go into a soundproof room when you discuss your plans to get rid of her. The first version can't read lips, remember?
There was a really good show about the boats on the History Channel (or one of them) just last week. since it was expected that many would be blown to bits on their maiden voyage, they weren't even built up to the standards of the day. It was known *at the time* that rivets were better for ships than welds (since they allowed the ship to flex in rough seas, while welds were rigid and would snap) but welds were faster and it's better to get 10 welded ships onto the water and heading towards the enemy than one properly-riveted ship. "quantity has a quality all its own"--and that goes double during wartime.
despite this, many ships survived (only about 10% were sunk, compared to over predictions of over 50%) and quite a few were used for decades.
Sorry, but I can't believe you got modded as 'insightful'. (well, actually, this is /., so I guess I can.)
Look at google. A large cluster, and if one of the machines dies, you don't worry about it.
The most important thing to remember about Google is that they deal with NON-CRITICAL INFORMATION. Who cares if you get different results when looking for Janet Jackson Superbowl pics from one day to the next, or even one hour to the next? You're getting scads of results, most are probably good, so you're happy and think Google is perfect. Google's *actual* reliability and consistancy would get them NOWHERE in banking or airline reservations, let along weather prediction, nuclear blast modeling, etc etc etc. Just because a computer can do one job well does not mean it can do another, same way that Indy cars make really lousy drag racers and Top Fuel cars don't turn laps at the brickyard.
They've already disallowed the use of the O-word for what is now the Gay Games.