I agree. Correlation doesnt equal causation. It seems more likely that the market finally giving people want they want through services like grooveshark and itunes is the cause. Encforcing draconian bullshit on the worst p2p service available is ancillary.
He's right... a private company can refuse service to anyone.. why can't they? They have the same liberties as you.
The real fault here lies with you, me, and everyone on the planet. We let our entire monetary infrastructure be controlled by these oliogopies. The blame is entirely on us... and we should cases like this as a wake up call. The financial system needs to be completely redesigned... we don't buy shit with gold ingots anymore... its time to evolve.
People always forget that windows didn't neccessarily dominate from anything THEY were doing... it was from the standardization to the IBM i386 platform that they just happened to be the OS of choice for at the time.
Android wont take over until people care about open software standards. How do you make them care? Provide some sort of benefit. In the case of the i386 platform it was hardware manufacturers that got behind it because they now only had to write one set of drivers and had universal specifications to build their designs around.
The real quest is is there a similar benefit to software developers? I dont see one.
People who know better hate Apple, but for each one of them theres 3 that dont care. I would say expect an oliogopy where apples a big player.
MMO's. I know that sounds dirty and people are going to be like "omg addiction" but really its all that's done it for me since I was about 16.
Ever since Ultima Online I have been completely ruined for single player games. They feel like sitting inside playing with a ball and cup vs playing a game of touch football with the neighborhood.
"However, the attack presented only applies to a specific network card model (Broadcom NetXtreme) whenever a remote administration functionality (called ASF for Alert Standard Format 2.0) is turned on (it is off by default) and configured. According to vendors, this functionality is far from being widely used. As a consequence, this vulnerability is really likely to have a very limited impact in practice."
I think OP has missed the point. [Normal] people don't really care what theyre using... they just want it to work for their needs.
I've always run Ubuntu on my laptop for example, because it works well for what I need my laptop to do. I dont run it on my desktop because every game is unsupported, multi-monitor support is brutal, silverlight support for my stock portfolio is non-existant, etc.
A computer is a tool; and as with any tool: sometimes you need a spoon, and sometimes you need a backhoe.
I've done a few dozen of these so I'll give you my opinon on this: "Make your life as easy as possible".
I'm a linux guy outside the office so it's very tempting to try to be benevolent and go with centOS, macbooks, etc, etc like some people have been suggesting. DONT LISTEN TO THEM.
Microsoft has spent nearly 3 decades perfecting the small office and enterprise network. They will make your life so much easier.
In this case youd need a decent server machine, somewhere in the 3-5 grand category. Install Server 2008 R2, configure Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and Exchange on it. Get a small cisco firewall that can also take care of the routing. Set up GPO's as permitted by user software. Get a nice central managed antivirus solution like eScan or Comodo. Create login scripts for mapping shared drives and installing printers and make sure all people are working off the network drives at all times.
If youre really ambitious you can also set up a network boot ghosting option for quick imaging rebuilds... although this may be a bit outside the scope of your company.
Now sit back and relax. Most days you will be legitimately doing nothing.
This is coming from a linux guy... go with Microsoft.. it makes your life easier and hey...its not your money anyways.
I couldnt agree more. Im a big FOSS guy and when I first started in the industry I was ambitious to deploy open source alternatives just like you. The final conclusion I came to: It's just not worth the headache. Microsoft has spent A LOT of time and money making the enterprise office environment it's domain. Make your life easier and stick with what works.
Hardly. This is a move to crush anyone that wants to use Java to build a cross platform "app" that would work on Blackberrys, windows, linux, iphones, osx, etc.
Apple was officially licenced to produce their own JVM. To say they were worried about a lawsuit is horribly naive.
Apple is an evil, exclusive company that has forever been secretly trying to go 1984 all over the personal computing industry. Once again their true colors are showing.
This is moot. If you dont have the knowledge to repair yourself you send it to a professional. Any real professional has OPK copies of your OS and can re-install using the licence key sticker on the case.
People that get the recovery disc sent with their PC lose it/throw it out anyways. I dont even ask them if they have it... its a waste of my time.
One thing I would, however, like to see PC manufacturers do is affix product keys for ALL licenced software somewhere on the case; most specifically if they've purchased a licenced copy of MS Office with their new PC.
For the first time in history the underground market is offering a more reliable, convenient, transferable, and overall BETTER product. It is no wonder that people are gravitating to it. The only solution is for the industry to evolve to what it's customers want. No amount of DRM or legislation is going to save them.
Yes your brother will be screwed. If the big guys can't serve him then its not adsl and is probably wireless. Of course this is basically a wireless proxy network on a dsl or cable wholesale account so if the big provider uses this legislation to such said wholesaler off then your brother is back on dialup.
I live in Alberta and have petitioned through competitivebroadband as any concerned citizen should, however, I'm afraid the problem is much larger than this.
As a user stated above, the wholesale ISP industry is dead anyways. The margins are so razor thin and the big companies just bully the reseller with their purchasing power (free modems, discounted rate plans, large scale commercial advertising, etc).
I moved to Calgary recently and was surprised to find my choices for an ISP were Shaw (cable) and Telus (DSL). There's a few independent companies like Terago and Radiant but they serve business only accounts.
Upon further investigation I realized that Telus blocks alot of standard incomming ports so my choice was narrowed to Shaw alone and I pay something like $45 a month for standard high speed with no option of switching (ie if Shaw raises their price to $100 a month tomorrow I guess I will be paying $100 a month).
This is absolutely ridiculous and our government has been letting tech companies get away with this for decades (roger's GSM monopoly is another good example). What we really need is reform on the fundamental principals of the data backbone. Electronic information sharing is quite obviously a fundamental aspect of our lives that needs to be governed by the tax payers, period. I'm no finance minister so I don't know the complications of federalizing communication highways but I do know that the commercial (almost military) monopolization of the Canadian data structure cannot continue without some serious future economic complications.
Wireless should work fine assuming the chipset in her box is supported by Ubuntu (assuming it is). One guy here was talking about having an incompatible dhcp client. Im assuming this is very rare but, of course, dhcp is not required for a connection.
VPN should also work. Most likely she will have to deal with the pptp protocol but this is supported in Ubuntu with a little bit of apt-get.
Printing is driver dependent (usually pretty good) and application support is dependent on the application (obviously). If its coded using the winapi and not supported by wine then shes outta luck. A virtual machine might be a good solution for her in this case.
I would very much hope you don't want executable permissions to apply automatically to a mounted usb drive. The security implementations of this are pretty obvious I would think.
The UID differences is a pinnacle feature of ext and this is exactly why its common practice to format removable drives as FAT. Although it was originally developed by Gates and could be considered legacy it is currently the most viable solution for operating system compatibility. I would agree a newer universal removable drive file system would be great but good luck getting MS to support it. If you want security with FAT use encryption.
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with swtor I will kill someone.
I agree. Correlation doesnt equal causation. It seems more likely that the market finally giving people want they want through services like grooveshark and itunes is the cause. Encforcing draconian bullshit on the worst p2p service available is ancillary.
He's right... a private company can refuse service to anyone.. why can't they? They have the same liberties as you.
The real fault here lies with you, me, and everyone on the planet. We let our entire monetary infrastructure be controlled by these oliogopies. The blame is entirely on us... and we should cases like this as a wake up call. The financial system needs to be completely redesigned... we don't buy shit with gold ingots anymore... its time to evolve.
Mail a cheque?
People always forget that windows didn't neccessarily dominate from anything THEY were doing... it was from the standardization to the IBM i386 platform that they just happened to be the OS of choice for at the time.
Android wont take over until people care about open software standards. How do you make them care? Provide some sort of benefit. In the case of the i386 platform it was hardware manufacturers that got behind it because they now only had to write one set of drivers and had universal specifications to build their designs around.
The real quest is is there a similar benefit to software developers? I dont see one.
People who know better hate Apple, but for each one of them theres 3 that dont care. I would say expect an oliogopy where apples a big player.
Yes, you're right. The term 'United Statesian' is much more ambiguous than 'American'.
MMO's. I know that sounds dirty and people are going to be like "omg addiction" but really its all that's done it for me since I was about 16.
Ever since Ultima Online I have been completely ruined for single player games. They feel like sitting inside playing with a ball and cup vs playing a game of touch football with the neighborhood.
"However, the attack presented only applies to a specific network card model (Broadcom NetXtreme) whenever a remote administration functionality (called ASF for Alert Standard Format 2.0) is turned on (it is off by default) and configured. According to vendors, this functionality is far from being widely used. As a consequence, this vulnerability is really likely to have a very limited impact in practice."
Doesnt seem like theres much to worry about.
I think OP has missed the point. [Normal] people don't really care what theyre using... they just want it to work for their needs.
I've always run Ubuntu on my laptop for example, because it works well for what I need my laptop to do. I dont run it on my desktop because every game is unsupported, multi-monitor support is brutal, silverlight support for my stock portfolio is non-existant, etc.
A computer is a tool; and as with any tool: sometimes you need a spoon, and sometimes you need a backhoe.
I've done a few dozen of these so I'll give you my opinon on this: "Make your life as easy as possible". I'm a linux guy outside the office so it's very tempting to try to be benevolent and go with centOS, macbooks, etc, etc like some people have been suggesting. DONT LISTEN TO THEM. Microsoft has spent nearly 3 decades perfecting the small office and enterprise network. They will make your life so much easier. In this case youd need a decent server machine, somewhere in the 3-5 grand category. Install Server 2008 R2, configure Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and Exchange on it. Get a small cisco firewall that can also take care of the routing. Set up GPO's as permitted by user software. Get a nice central managed antivirus solution like eScan or Comodo. Create login scripts for mapping shared drives and installing printers and make sure all people are working off the network drives at all times. If youre really ambitious you can also set up a network boot ghosting option for quick imaging rebuilds... although this may be a bit outside the scope of your company. Now sit back and relax. Most days you will be legitimately doing nothing. This is coming from a linux guy... go with Microsoft.. it makes your life easier and hey.. .its not your money anyways.
I couldnt agree more. Im a big FOSS guy and when I first started in the industry I was ambitious to deploy open source alternatives just like you. The final conclusion I came to: It's just not worth the headache. Microsoft has spent A LOT of time and money making the enterprise office environment it's domain. Make your life easier and stick with what works.
Hardly. This is a move to crush anyone that wants to use Java to build a cross platform "app" that would work on Blackberrys, windows, linux, iphones, osx, etc. Apple was officially licenced to produce their own JVM. To say they were worried about a lawsuit is horribly naive. Apple is an evil, exclusive company that has forever been secretly trying to go 1984 all over the personal computing industry. Once again their true colors are showing.
You should. Ubuntu is honestly getting real slick. Everything works OOB, especially for laptops. I would recommend it to my grandma.
Personal gmail account?
This is moot. If you dont have the knowledge to repair yourself you send it to a professional. Any real professional has OPK copies of your OS and can re-install using the licence key sticker on the case. People that get the recovery disc sent with their PC lose it/throw it out anyways. I dont even ask them if they have it... its a waste of my time. One thing I would, however, like to see PC manufacturers do is affix product keys for ALL licenced software somewhere on the case; most specifically if they've purchased a licenced copy of MS Office with their new PC.
iPhones are also GSM only. There is no CDMA model that I'm aware of.
Guess that'll teach ya to buy GSM only and direct from the manufacturer.
For the first time in history the underground market is offering a more reliable, convenient, transferable, and overall BETTER product. It is no wonder that people are gravitating to it. The only solution is for the industry to evolve to what it's customers want. No amount of DRM or legislation is going to save them.
Why don't you ask the "donate now" button?
Yes your brother will be screwed. If the big guys can't serve him then its not adsl and is probably wireless. Of course this is basically a wireless proxy network on a dsl or cable wholesale account so if the big provider uses this legislation to such said wholesaler off then your brother is back on dialup.
I live in Alberta and have petitioned through competitivebroadband as any concerned citizen should, however, I'm afraid the problem is much larger than this. As a user stated above, the wholesale ISP industry is dead anyways. The margins are so razor thin and the big companies just bully the reseller with their purchasing power (free modems, discounted rate plans, large scale commercial advertising, etc).
I moved to Calgary recently and was surprised to find my choices for an ISP were Shaw (cable) and Telus (DSL). There's a few independent companies like Terago and Radiant but they serve business only accounts. Upon further investigation I realized that Telus blocks alot of standard incomming ports so my choice was narrowed to Shaw alone and I pay something like $45 a month for standard high speed with no option of switching (ie if Shaw raises their price to $100 a month tomorrow I guess I will be paying $100 a month).
This is absolutely ridiculous and our government has been letting tech companies get away with this for decades (roger's GSM monopoly is another good example). What we really need is reform on the fundamental principals of the data backbone. Electronic information sharing is quite obviously a fundamental aspect of our lives that needs to be governed by the tax payers, period. I'm no finance minister so I don't know the complications of federalizing communication highways but I do know that the commercial (almost military) monopolization of the Canadian data structure cannot continue without some serious future economic complications.
Wireless should work fine assuming the chipset in her box is supported by Ubuntu (assuming it is). One guy here was talking about having an incompatible dhcp client. Im assuming this is very rare but, of course, dhcp is not required for a connection. VPN should also work. Most likely she will have to deal with the pptp protocol but this is supported in Ubuntu with a little bit of apt-get. Printing is driver dependent (usually pretty good) and application support is dependent on the application (obviously). If its coded using the winapi and not supported by wine then shes outta luck. A virtual machine might be a good solution for her in this case.
I would very much hope you don't want executable permissions to apply automatically to a mounted usb drive. The security implementations of this are pretty obvious I would think. The UID differences is a pinnacle feature of ext and this is exactly why its common practice to format removable drives as FAT. Although it was originally developed by Gates and could be considered legacy it is currently the most viable solution for operating system compatibility. I would agree a newer universal removable drive file system would be great but good luck getting MS to support it. If you want security with FAT use encryption.