A lot of times, I'd like to send something to someone with encryption. I know how to get GPG running and do this, but my recipients are your typical "it's too hard" group.:(
I used the Brain back in the 1.x stages, and enjoyed it. I stopped using it after they 'forgot' about the end-user community and started going after companies. I guess now that they're up to version 3, perhaps they went back to the users again. Too late, since I already moved to a wiki, which I can hit from any OS with a browser.
Back then, I also wasn't excited about their patent. So I found another tool.
I've been using TWiki for about a year, and I like it. I've been stuffing all kinds of data into it. I use it for project ideas, basic documentation, to-do lists (with the Alert plugin it does a good job of organizing them).
TWiki is a good bit of work to set up, but I like its features more than most of the others I've seen. It has good access control, page versioning, formatting features, and extensibility.
No, but they'll be the tech support if someone calls about the broken printer.
They can't install antivirus software on someone's system.
I bet they could using some of the newer remote desktop scenarios.
They can't set up the phone+new PC for a new employee.
True, but maybe there won't be many new employees.:)
Further, they're not going to speak English very well...Not to mention the time difference is a royal PITA.
This hasn't stopped Dell from making them the first line of tech support. Probably other companies as well. They're willing to work in the middle of the night to be available, and it's apparently cheap enough to route phone calls halfway around the worlds.
I don't think your job is as safe as you think. Sooner or later we'll all be looking for a new line of work. I'm not excited by that propsect...I like writing software, but I'll deal with it.
I bought a Dell laptop for my mom back in May and the first time I connected there were several megs of XP updates required. Not fun when you're stuck with dial-up.
Beware of those police "charities." There might be some legit ones out there, but I've gotten calls from several who use professional fund-raising firms to call you and then the firm keeps 80% or more of the donation. And often the donation isn't even tax deductible.
The Amiga used floppy drives that had different hardware than the PC, so maybe that feature was part of the Amiga hardware. However, I seem to remember that when you took a disk out of an Amiga drive, you'd hear a periodic soft click, like maybe every few seconds. Perhaps that was sort of a 'ping' that looked to see if the disk was present or not, or if it had changed.
How does a guy in a third-world country, who might have greater knowledge of a potential terrorist act, but far less money compete with someone in the US who bids $100 on a lark?
I wish they'd give programming languages and other software unique and easy-to-search names. C++ doesn't search well in some search engines. C is even worse, since it's so generic and short. Add to that software with names like Word and Access.
It makes a difference when it comes time to search on a feature or problem.
We regularly mute all commercials. I'm so used to doing this than when I'm at someone else's house and the commercials aren't muted, I find it really irritating.
Amusingly, when I'm visiting my mom and I have the remote, she doesn't like silence...she's used to the background noise.
Last summer Counting Crows Hard Candy album had a 'secret' website that used a code from the CD. They had a lot of live tracks for downloading on the site.
Hmm, I wonder how the film in question was public domain, since WWII was only 50 years ago and not prior to the 1923? copyright cutoff. Perhaps it was U.S. Government footage, which might have been public domain?
I have not made the move to a PVR, but we use our 9 year old VCR to tape shows and watch later. And guess what, I use the fast forward button to get through the commercials! Perhaps we should remove that button from all remotes.
Well, the modem could dial when the virus knows it's not on the net.
But, how would your average user know? I don't have my modem speaker turned on, and others probably are the same.
I seem to recall reading a few years back that there was some porn-viewing-software that would turn off the modem speaker, hang up the net connection, and dial a computer in Moldova or some former Soviet republic, and the user would see their massive phone bill later. Not quite the same, but similar.
Sure you could do it with a modem, but most people's modems aren't set to answer phone calls. This Athens PC is designed to be able to do something will all incoming calls.
I am surprised there aren't more virii that get people's modems to dial some 900 number or Mongolia or something.
Taking email worms/virii to a new level! Now a virus on your Athens PC will call people on your contact list, and if another Athens PC answers, transmit the virus!
That reminds me of the my.mp3.com thing where they "verified" that you had the CDs and then let you stream them from their servers. I think a court ruled against mp3.com for doing that.
Seems legit to me but the RIAA has a fit about anything.
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Maybe if he sold more ads on Yahoo!
Eclipse is written in Java, right? It seems speedy enough to me. It's also the nicest Java app I've seen.
A lot of times, I'd like to send something to someone with encryption. I know how to get GPG running and do this, but my recipients are your typical "it's too hard" group. :(
I used the Brain back in the 1.x stages, and enjoyed it. I stopped using it after they 'forgot' about the end-user community and started going after companies. I guess now that they're up to version 3, perhaps they went back to the users again. Too late, since I already moved to a wiki, which I can hit from any OS with a browser.
Back then, I also wasn't excited about their patent. So I found another tool.
I've been using TWiki for about a year, and I like it. I've been stuffing all kinds of data into it. I use it for project ideas, basic documentation, to-do lists (with the Alert plugin it does a good job of organizing them).
TWiki is a good bit of work to set up, but I like its features more than most of the others I've seen. It has good access control, page versioning, formatting features, and extensibility.
If my email was integrated, that would be great.
Nice copy of an existing Slashdot comment. He could have at least fixed the URLs.
Someone in India can't fix the printer.
:)
No, but they'll be the tech support if someone calls about the broken printer.
They can't install antivirus software on someone's system.
I bet they could using some of the newer remote desktop scenarios.
They can't set up the phone+new PC for a new employee.
True, but maybe there won't be many new employees.
Further, they're not going to speak English very well...Not to mention the time difference is a royal PITA.
This hasn't stopped Dell from making them the first line of tech support. Probably other companies as well. They're willing to work in the middle of the night to be available, and it's apparently cheap enough to route phone calls halfway around the worlds.
I don't think your job is as safe as you think. Sooner or later we'll all be looking for a new line of work. I'm not excited by that propsect...I like writing software, but I'll deal with it.
I bought a Dell laptop for my mom back in May and the first time I connected there were several megs of XP updates required. Not fun when you're stuck with dial-up.
Beware of those police "charities." There might be some legit ones out there, but I've gotten calls from several who use professional fund-raising firms to call you and then the firm keeps 80% or more of the donation. And often the donation isn't even tax deductible.
Yeah, with AVG you're downloading a ~1.3 MB every time you update. You'd think they would trim that down to save their bandwidth!
The Amiga used floppy drives that had different hardware than the PC, so maybe that feature was part of the Amiga hardware. However, I seem to remember that when you took a disk out of an Amiga drive, you'd hear a periodic soft click, like maybe every few seconds. Perhaps that was sort of a 'ping' that looked to see if the disk was present or not, or if it had changed.
How does a guy in a third-world country, who might have greater knowledge of a potential terrorist act, but far less money compete with someone in the US who bids $100 on a lark?
This sounds exactly like the argument used by the US media companies to get Sen. Fritz Hollings to propose the SSSCA, or whatever it got renamed to.
Some of us might actually use broadband to transmit large amounts of non-media data, or do VOIP. It isn't all about music and movies!
Fight back!
I wish they'd give programming languages and other software unique and easy-to-search names. C++ doesn't search well in some search engines. C is even worse, since it's so generic and short. Add to that software with names like Word and Access.
It makes a difference when it comes time to search on a feature or problem.
I agree that the eBook prices are too high. I've settled for reading the classics on my Handspring Visor.
Check out Plucker Books. These are Gutenberg books formatted for the Plucker reader.
I still prefer a real book, but these come in handy when I'm feeding my infant son...bottle in one hand and Visor in the other.
We regularly mute all commercials. I'm so used to doing this than when I'm at someone else's house and the commercials aren't muted, I find it really irritating.
Amusingly, when I'm visiting my mom and I have the remote, she doesn't like silence...she's used to the background noise.
Last summer Counting Crows Hard Candy album had a 'secret' website that used a code from the CD. They had a lot of live tracks for downloading on the site.
PKWare's chief competitor, WinZip
I wonder how these guys feel about the zip support embedded in XP?
Hmm, I wonder how the film in question was public domain, since WWII was only 50 years ago and not prior to the 1923? copyright cutoff. Perhaps it was U.S. Government footage, which might have been public domain?
I have not made the move to a PVR, but we use our 9 year old VCR to tape shows and watch later. And guess what, I use the fast forward button to get through the commercials! Perhaps we should remove that button from all remotes.
Well, the modem could dial when the virus knows it's not on the net.
But, how would your average user know? I don't have my modem speaker turned on, and others probably are the same.
I seem to recall reading a few years back that there was some porn-viewing-software that would turn off the modem speaker, hang up the net connection, and dial a computer in Moldova or some former Soviet republic, and the user would see their massive phone bill later. Not quite the same, but similar.
Sure you could do it with a modem, but most people's modems aren't set to answer phone calls. This Athens PC is designed to be able to do something will all incoming calls.
I am surprised there aren't more virii that get people's modems to dial some 900 number or Mongolia or something.
Taking email worms/virii to a new level! Now a virus on your Athens PC will call people on your contact list, and if another Athens PC answers, transmit the virus!
That reminds me of the my.mp3.com thing where they "verified" that you had the CDs and then let you stream them from their servers. I think a court ruled against mp3.com for doing that.
Seems legit to me but the RIAA has a fit about anything.
OK, have them leave neutral feedback. Or they can always reply to negative feedback from the seller saying why they left it.
I bet a few buyers would risk it anyway.