Isn't freedom of choice supposed to be the whole point to Open source software? I always thought that the potpourri of software was a plus. Of course, I understand that the newbie would have trouble with some of this, but I don't want our choices to go away so that we are locked into one format, one way of doing things (ONE TO RULE THEM ALL!) like you-know-who did.
Don't know where you are from, but my TW isn't that bad at all. I pay 40 per month + 20 total for two digital cable boxes, plus 25 for hbo/max/starz package, and 45 for my RR. And I was told by the network admin himself that routers and multiple computers were perfectly fine, but they didn't help you with or support the internal network. They even give out business cards of local networking companies that *will* help you and support the internal network if you need them too. This is residential OR commercial service. $125 is quite a bill, but considering that includes all the channels I can get except Showtime and high speed internet that has been very reliable and seemingly not extensively oversold, I figure it's not too terribly bad. Considering the only alternative is static or a dish, then it's livable. And, for the record, I record all kinds of shows, and NEVER have a problem recording shows with a VCR, unless some weather catastrophe hits. The most annoying problem for me is that these new channels that like to put little commercials for their shows in the bottom of the screen after the show comes back on after commercial break. THAT's freakin' annoying. Is it overpriced? Probably? Do I have a choice? Not really, but their service has been good enough so that it hasn't really mattered so far. I watch alot of tv, and I work with computers, so internet is important. I do think that competition should be there, but my market isn't large enough to make it worth while, so we deal.
that they are trying to push, this just might be a rumor. They had a whole booth at Gen Con where you could learn and play the game. This rumor was around after third season as well.
I am one teacher who knows more than my middle school and high school students. They hate it. They don't get away with anything in my lab. I know all of the tricks. OF course, the rest of the teachers in the school need clue sticks, but I am working on all of them. I suppose most computer teachers should be ahead of the kids, but that's isn't necessarily how it really is, and most teachers of other subjects just don't get the internet-thing either.
The Microsoft Works Suite, as names by Microsoft DOES INDEED include a full version of Word. You get Works, Word, and Money, and I think Encarta. That's what came on my HP that I bought before I knew better.
I am surprised they aren't going for something more compatible with Microsoft Office like Star Office. People are used to using Office products as the 'standard', so why not give them an alternative that will operate approximately the same. Putting Word Perfect on them will just confuse the people who are used to Word, and they will be upset when their Word at work will not read what they did at home. They won't understand enough to install the converters, and even those don't work 100%. I realize that SO and Open Office aren't perfect either, but I am not sure this is the best way to go Microsoft-free for the average consumer.
We also use Spam Assassin. It's really nice with IMAP, because I have a special IMAP folder, and SA sorts all of the incoming spam right into the spam folder. Once a week I do a quick skim and make sure nothing important got stopped, and then it gets the old dumperoo. You can't do that with POP3, but it really doesn't stop that many that are legit, unless they are mailing list e-mails from crap like Yahoo groups and such. I like the various criteria it uses for what is considered spam, it has to get a certain score before it is considered spam. Combine that with the use of AmaViS for virus filtering, and you're good to go. We've had great luck with it.
We are taking this FAR beyond our forefathers EVER intended. This country was founded by religious people who were fleeing those were persecuting them. Now this same country has ended up persecuting the religious. This is not what was intended by separation of church and state. It was to keep religious leaders from being THE leaders and having too much power and thus corruption. Our freakin' country's motto is "In God We Trust" for pete's sake. I'm thinking we were better off when we really believed that. Every religion has a 'God' in some form, this is becoming a crusade to remove all religion and spirituality from this country, and we are doomed when that happens. I had a friend in school whose parents didn't want her to say the pledge. She had a note. She didn't say, while we did. No big deal. It wasn't an issue. No one was hurt by it. I am scared for the direction this country is taking. The schools are where this country is going wrong. We wonder why it's such a mess, take a look at the schools. Thank god for private schools.
Then they need to do the same thing to Domain Registrars of America, who uses the same practice. I have gotten three 'renewal' notices for different domains and I don't use them as a registrar. I also have a client who fell for this, their old registrar froze their domain on them becuase their e-mail was bad on their record, and the 'renewal'/transfer didn't go through. When confronted about the 'renewal' notice, they said that was just the way they 'worded' the advertisement. Yeah right.
Changing companies can have a MAJOR effect on connection speed. Jus because the company changes, don't assume they will use the same equipment. They could be using different access servers that do not like your modem as well, they could have analog lines instead of a DS3 fiber connection, there could be several mitigating factors. The brand of access server is a big one. A 3com might allow older computers to connect at faster speeds and connect easier while an Ascend might be harder to connect, and negotiate a lower speed.
While they may not cripple the internet, virii cost corporations ALOT OF MONEY. I work in the service industry, and EVERY DAY I am at some company to clean virii off of machines. These aren't large companies with IT people, these are the small business where every machine gets decimated by virii that can't be cleaned with wiping the system, and if they are cleanable, the files are OFTEN corrupted and of no use. Of course, these are also small business that never thought of backup. Virii might be good for my business, but when these companies are paying me $65 an hour (or my boss) to clean them when they get them every time (because that handy antivirus we put on their machines last time hasn't been updated since we left), it gets expensive.
Yeah, Those are Cutco signs. I sold it for a year, and then became an asst manager for awhile. It is actually one of those jobs that if you do the work, you get paid nicely. IF you are a good salesperson, or play the innocent college kid routine well. That's what I did. Getting 50% commission is sweet, but it isn't easy. My co-assistant manager sold the most during a summer in the 90's, and got a scholarship and made major bucks. BUT, it's not something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, even if the product is really good. It was good cash in college though.
AOL/Time WArner was forced to open their cable systems in my area to other ISP's as part of their merger agreement. Now I have a choice between AOL, Roadrunner and Earthlink. Prices aren't any different. I know of one local ISP trying to get into the action, but I already know that they are going to have to charge more than the other three to do it. "Open" systems just mean that they will "open" them to select partners, keeping their monopoly through backroom deals. I can't even beleive that they consider AOL and Roadrunner different ISP's at this point.
I have been using it for three weeks and I disagree with this. Win2K is much slower on my
hardware, and I am using a AMD 650 with 256 megs of RAM on. My Photoshop and Dreamweaver, and Office apps load more quickly, and I have yet to
have a problem with squandered resources, EXCEPT from Outlook Express 6, which has crashed quite a few times. The networkinf stuff is slick, and
sets itself up, and I mean it literally sets itself up. I have moved this harddrive between work and home, and it configures itself for the network each time, and Ihave had no hardware issues doing this either. Now, I do think it is bloated, and Windows Messenger that you must edit your registry to even have the option to remove it is evil, especially when the thing opens when Outlook Express opens no matter WHAT you have it set to do. The.NET stuff is annoying as well. There are strengths, and there are drawbacks. I do like the built in file decompression, which I am sure WinZIP and other such programs are not liking one bit. I didn't have to download a program at all to open a compressed file. So, there are good and bad things, but I don't agree that Win2K is faster. It just isn't on my system configuration.
for about a week. I got WIndows XP Pro, corporate
edition, and so far, it's good for some things, bad for others. We wanted to use it a little bit so that we knew what we were dealing with. It's good with programs like Photoshop becuase memory management seems better, but there is still a problem with lots of programs, lesser name
software vendors and freeware/shareware.
And OE still sucks.
This stuff would be happening no matter WHO was in office. The public is demanding action against terrorist activity. It's damn scary what I have heard people I know say about what they government should be allowed to do in order to catch these people. They have no clue that most of it would end up being used against THEM and not likely many terrorists. THere is no way something like THIS would pass because they would have no proof that the mp3's were *illegal*.
What if I own all of these cds? Of course, if I were sharing them out, that would be illegal.
But the constitution is pretty clear about our
rights in this instance. But at times like these,
the American people will actually tolerate violations, little by little, and then they'll notice when the Army is marching up and down the streets, breaking down our doors whenever they feel like it to search the place. By then, it's too late.
When Star Office 6 Beta came out, I downloaded it and installed it on my Windows machine and a co-worker who uses Office on a daily basis. I asked him to use SO instead of Office until I told him
to stop. In the last week, I have kept hearing his rave reviews of SO, and every document he has produced has been fully usable by others in the office using Office. In fact, he actually seemed to like it *better* for certain tasks, and considered as good in most others. He is not a techie, but a marketing person. I am in a small office, so my experiment is a small one, but I plan to expand to some of the others next week and see what happens. I also admin an IIS server and an Apache server on Linux. Apache is WAY easier to administer, even for a newbie, because I was taught by the old admin to do this stuff. I have been using MS products a lot longer than *nix products, and I find IIS a bigger pain in the butt than Apache. I have more trouble adding users and getting FP extentions to work properly,
something different goes wrong everytime. On Apache, the steps are simply executed, and it goes smoothly every time. It takes me twice the time on the Win2K server to do anything. An admin shouldn't just know Windows or Unix anyway... you should at least be aware of everything..I can't imagine a *good* sysadmin that didn't know how
to use a unix machine...how can you secure your network if you don't understand the tools that the
enemy could be using? That goes for knowing Microsoft problems and Unix problems, and the way both can be used to exploit said problems.
Plus, I think companies are starting to learn the
dangers of being too dependent on one companies' products. With this new licensing of XP products, I have already been asked by customers what alternatives there are for them. With the economy showing a slowdown, companies are more likely to try something new that is MUCH cheaper than to fork out alot of money for an 'upgrade' that they really don't need expect for the fact they are being told by MS 'do it now or pay for it later'.
to seeing all of the reasons for the Prime Directive and the other Starfleet rules.;-)
Obviously, this show will probably end up showing us WHY we were constantly subjected to PD arguments in the other Trek series' (of course, they violated it alot anyway) As far as the Vulcan/human relationship, I think that they did a good job with it, it's been 100 years, humans resent the Vulcans a bit for 'holding back' humanity, so there is more tension than in the later series', or at least it was hinted at. They needed someone on the ship who had been in space before, but even at that, this ought to be interesting.
I can't imagine NOT having cash. I have been in places before when the credit machine wasn't working, or the check acceptance software wasn't working, without cash, we are putting WAAYY too much dependence on computers and such, and while we are 'computer people' not even *I* trust them that much. Not every vendor can afford to take credit cards, not every person in the world has the credit history that allows them to get debit cards, credit cards, etc. Things are still at the point where if you've had troubles in the past paying bills, it's still difficult to get such things. I have a checking account, but can't get a debit cardfor some financial trouble I had years ago, but I do have a credit card. Go figure. I think we are a ways off from actually having no cash, of course, my boss is convinced that this is all leading to biblical armegeddan becuase we will all be branded and kept track of...that alone could be a hinderance because the super-religious folk are ALL saying this.
Already downloaded from Gnutella, and listened
to it. It was painful, but the quality of sound
was good.;-) Got two versions, actually, an extended version and the cd version.
Re:um, yeah, whatever
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Actually this DOES have uses. We have a client
right now that wanted two buildings connected so
that they could share info, but didn't want that
info to be accessible on the internet at all.
We ran an alarm circuit between the two buildings,
plugged in a box on each side, and got a 2 meg
circuit up between them. Yes, there are lots of
uses for this. Not *everything* needs to be about
the *internet*, sometimes it's just about sharing information.
Oh, good point on the Photoshop update.
5.5 and 6 are vastly different creatures.
Luckily, I installed a full version of 6
on my machine, and it co-exists nicely with
5.5, so I can use whichever I want. Of course,
that is rather costly when done the legal
way (buying the full version) and not just
the upgrade. I'd be screwed without having
both right now. Although I do like the new
text warping features in 6:-) With ANY
new OS, people should expect updates to fix
the problems. No OS can be beta-tested enough..
it's releasing it into the wild and seeing havoc
it causes (read: Windows ME) to see what all is
really wrong. The problem is that when a Microsoft
product has a problem, it takes them too long to get fixes for them. When something is wrong in
Linux, you have a better chance of someoene coming
up with a fix when more people are working on it
(particularly security flaws) Not dealing with
MACs much, I don't know what their history for this really is, but this update thing seems par for the course to me.
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Isn't freedom of choice supposed to be the whole point to Open source software? I always thought that the potpourri of software was a plus. Of course, I understand that the newbie would have trouble with some of this, but I don't want our choices to go away so that we are locked into one format, one way of doing things (ONE TO RULE THEM ALL!) like you-know-who did.
Don't know where you are from, but my TW isn't that bad at all. I pay 40 per month + 20 total for two digital cable boxes, plus 25 for hbo/max/starz package, and 45 for my RR. And I was told by the network admin himself that routers and multiple computers were perfectly fine, but they didn't help you with or support the internal network. They even give out business cards of local networking companies that *will* help you and support the internal network if you need them too. This is residential OR commercial service. $125 is quite a bill, but considering that includes all the channels I can get except Showtime and high speed internet that has been very reliable and seemingly not extensively oversold, I figure it's not too terribly bad.
Considering the only alternative is static or a dish, then it's livable. And, for the record, I record all kinds of shows, and NEVER have a problem recording shows with a VCR, unless some weather catastrophe hits. The most annoying problem for me is that these new channels that like to put little commercials for their shows in the bottom of the screen after the show comes back on after commercial break. THAT's freakin' annoying. Is it overpriced? Probably? Do I have a choice? Not really, but their service has been good enough so that it hasn't really mattered so far. I watch alot of tv, and I work with computers, so internet is important. I do think that competition should be there, but my market isn't large enough to make it worth while, so we deal.
that they are trying to push, this just might be a rumor. They had a whole booth at Gen Con where you could learn and play the game. This rumor was around after third season as well.
I am one teacher who knows more than my middle school and high school students. They hate it. They don't get away with anything in my lab. I know all of the tricks. OF course, the rest of the teachers in the school need clue sticks, but I am working on all of them. I suppose most computer teachers should be ahead of the kids, but that's isn't necessarily how it really is, and most teachers of other subjects just don't get the internet-thing either.
The Microsoft Works Suite, as names by Microsoft DOES INDEED include a full version of Word. You get Works, Word, and Money, and I think Encarta. That's what came on my HP that I bought before I knew better.
I am surprised they aren't going for something more compatible with Microsoft Office like Star Office. People are used to using Office products as the 'standard', so why not give them an alternative that will operate approximately the same. Putting Word Perfect on them will just confuse the people who are used to Word, and they will be upset when their Word at work will not read what they did at home. They won't understand enough to install the converters, and even those don't work 100%. I realize that SO and Open Office aren't perfect either, but I am not sure this is the best way to go Microsoft-free for the average consumer.
We also use Spam Assassin. It's really nice with
IMAP, because I have a special IMAP folder, and
SA sorts all of the incoming spam right into the spam folder. Once a week I do a quick skim and make sure nothing important got stopped, and then it gets the old dumperoo. You can't do that with POP3, but it really doesn't stop that many that are legit, unless they are mailing list e-mails from crap like Yahoo groups and such. I like the various criteria it uses for what is considered spam, it has to get a certain score before it is considered spam. Combine that with the use of AmaViS for virus filtering, and you're good to go. We've had great luck with it.
We are taking this FAR beyond our forefathers EVER intended. This country was founded by religious people who were fleeing those were persecuting them. Now this same country has ended up persecuting the religious. This is not what was intended by separation of church and state. It was to keep religious leaders from being THE leaders and having too much power and thus corruption. Our freakin' country's motto is "In God We Trust" for pete's sake. I'm thinking we were better off when we really believed that. Every religion has a 'God' in some form, this is becoming a crusade to remove all religion and spirituality from this country, and we are doomed when that happens. I had a friend in school whose parents didn't want her to say the pledge. She had a note. She didn't say, while we did. No big deal. It wasn't an issue. No one was hurt by it.
I am scared for the direction this country is taking. The schools are where this country is going wrong. We wonder why it's such a mess, take a look at the schools. Thank god for private schools.
Then they need to do the same thing to Domain Registrars of America, who uses the same practice.
I have gotten three 'renewal' notices for different domains and I don't use them as a registrar. I also have a client who fell for this, their old registrar froze their domain on them becuase their e-mail was bad on their record, and the 'renewal'/transfer didn't go through. When confronted about the 'renewal' notice, they said that was just the way they 'worded' the advertisement. Yeah right.
Changing companies can have a MAJOR effect on connection speed. Jus because the company changes, don't assume they will use the same equipment. They could be using different access servers that do not like your modem as well, they could have analog lines instead of a DS3 fiber connection, there could be several mitigating factors. The brand of access server is a big one. A 3com might allow older computers to connect at faster speeds and connect easier while an Ascend might be harder to connect, and negotiate a lower speed.
While they may not cripple the internet, virii cost corporations ALOT OF MONEY. I work in the service industry, and EVERY DAY I am at some company to clean virii off of machines. These aren't large companies with IT people, these are the small business where every machine gets decimated by virii that can't be cleaned with wiping the system, and if they are cleanable, the files are OFTEN corrupted and of no use. Of course, these are also small business that never thought of backup. Virii might be good for my business, but when these companies are paying me $65 an hour (or my boss) to clean them when they get them every time (because that handy antivirus we put on their machines last time hasn't been updated since we left), it gets expensive.
Yeah, Those are Cutco signs. I sold it for a year, and then became an asst manager for awhile. It is actually one of those jobs that if you do the work, you get paid nicely. IF you are a good salesperson, or play the innocent college kid routine well. That's what I did. Getting 50% commission is sweet, but it isn't easy. My co-assistant manager sold the most during a summer in the 90's, and got a scholarship and made major bucks. BUT, it's not something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, even if the product is really good. It was good cash in college though.
AOL/Time WArner was forced to open their cable systems in my area to other ISP's as part of their merger agreement. Now I have a choice between AOL, Roadrunner and Earthlink. Prices aren't any different. I know of one local ISP trying to get into the action, but I already know that they are going to have to charge more than the other three to do it. "Open" systems just mean that they will "open" them to select partners, keeping their monopoly through backroom deals. I can't even beleive that they consider AOL and Roadrunner different ISP's at this point.
Hey! I'm a network administrator and my name is Amy, so there are two of us out there...
Only 5%???? That's a little low, don't ya think ;-)
I have been using it for three weeks and I disagree with this. Win2K is much slower on my .NET stuff is annoying as well. There are strengths, and there are drawbacks. I do like the built in file decompression, which I am sure WinZIP and other such programs are not liking one bit. I didn't have to download a program at all to open a compressed file. So, there are good and bad things, but I don't agree that Win2K is faster. It just isn't on my system configuration.
hardware, and I am using a AMD 650 with 256 megs of RAM on. My Photoshop and Dreamweaver, and Office apps load more quickly, and I have yet to
have a problem with squandered resources, EXCEPT from Outlook Express 6, which has crashed quite a few times. The networkinf stuff is slick, and
sets itself up, and I mean it literally sets itself up. I have moved this harddrive between work and home, and it configures itself for the network each time, and Ihave had no hardware issues doing this either. Now, I do think it is bloated, and Windows Messenger that you must edit your registry to even have the option to remove it is evil, especially when the thing opens when Outlook Express opens no matter WHAT you have it set to do. The
for about a week. I got WIndows XP Pro, corporate
edition, and so far, it's good for some things, bad for others. We wanted to use it a little bit so that we knew what we were dealing with. It's good with programs like Photoshop becuase memory management seems better, but there is still a problem with lots of programs, lesser name
software vendors and freeware/shareware.
And OE still sucks.
This stuff would be happening no matter WHO was in office. The public is demanding action against terrorist activity. It's damn scary what I have heard people I know say about what they government should be allowed to do in order to catch these people. They have no clue that most of it would end up being used against THEM and not likely many terrorists. THere is no way something like THIS would pass because they would have no proof that the mp3's were *illegal*.
What if I own all of these cds? Of course, if I were sharing them out, that would be illegal.
But the constitution is pretty clear about our
rights in this instance. But at times like these,
the American people will actually tolerate violations, little by little, and then they'll notice when the Army is marching up and down the streets, breaking down our doors whenever they feel like it to search the place. By then, it's too late.
Not in my experience. My sites on IIS are much
slower than on Apache. And it takes me longer to do anything to the IIS machine.
When Star Office 6 Beta came out, I downloaded it and installed it on my Windows machine and a co-worker who uses Office on a daily basis. I asked him to use SO instead of Office until I told him
to stop. In the last week, I have kept hearing his rave reviews of SO, and every document he has produced has been fully usable by others in the office using Office. In fact, he actually seemed to like it *better* for certain tasks, and considered as good in most others. He is not a techie, but a marketing person. I am in a small office, so my experiment is a small one, but I plan to expand to some of the others next week and see what happens. I also admin an IIS server and an Apache server on Linux. Apache is WAY easier to administer, even for a newbie, because I was taught by the old admin to do this stuff. I have been using MS products a lot longer than *nix products, and I find IIS a bigger pain in the butt than Apache. I have more trouble adding users and getting FP extentions to work properly,
something different goes wrong everytime. On Apache, the steps are simply executed, and it goes smoothly every time. It takes me twice the time on the Win2K server to do anything. An admin shouldn't just know Windows or Unix anyway... you should at least be aware of everything..I can't imagine a *good* sysadmin that didn't know how
to use a unix machine...how can you secure your network if you don't understand the tools that the
enemy could be using? That goes for knowing Microsoft problems and Unix problems, and the way both can be used to exploit said problems.
Plus, I think companies are starting to learn the
dangers of being too dependent on one companies' products. With this new licensing of XP products, I have already been asked by customers what alternatives there are for them. With the economy showing a slowdown, companies are more likely to try something new that is MUCH cheaper than to fork out alot of money for an 'upgrade' that they really don't need expect for the fact they are being told by MS 'do it now or pay for it later'.
to seeing all of the reasons for the Prime Directive and the other Starfleet rules. ;-)
Obviously, this show will probably end up showing us WHY we were constantly subjected to PD arguments in the other Trek series' (of course, they violated it alot anyway) As far as the Vulcan/human relationship, I think that they did a good job with it, it's been 100 years, humans resent the Vulcans a bit for 'holding back' humanity, so there is more tension than in the later series', or at least it was hinted at. They needed someone on the ship who had been in space before, but even at that, this ought to be interesting.
I can't imagine NOT having cash. I have been in places before when the credit machine wasn't working, or the check acceptance software wasn't working, without cash, we are putting WAAYY too much dependence on computers and such, and while we are 'computer people' not even *I* trust them that much. Not every vendor can afford to take credit cards, not every person in the world has the credit history that allows them to get debit cards, credit cards, etc. Things are still at the point where if you've had troubles in the past paying bills, it's still difficult to get such things. I have a checking account, but can't get a debit cardfor some financial trouble I had years ago, but I do have a credit card. Go figure. I think we are a ways off from actually having no cash, of course, my boss is convinced that this is all leading to biblical armegeddan becuase we will all be branded and kept track of...that alone could be a hinderance because the super-religious folk are ALL saying this.
Already downloaded from Gnutella, and listened ;-) Got two versions, actually, an extended version and the cd version.
to it. It was painful, but the quality of sound
was good.
Actually this DOES have uses. We have a client
right now that wanted two buildings connected so
that they could share info, but didn't want that
info to be accessible on the internet at all.
We ran an alarm circuit between the two buildings,
plugged in a box on each side, and got a 2 meg
circuit up between them. Yes, there are lots of
uses for this. Not *everything* needs to be about
the *internet*, sometimes it's just about sharing information.
Oh, good point on the Photoshop update. 5.5 and 6 are vastly different creatures. Luckily, I installed a full version of 6 on my machine, and it co-exists nicely with 5.5, so I can use whichever I want. Of course, that is rather costly when done the legal way (buying the full version) and not just the upgrade. I'd be screwed without having both right now. Although I do like the new text warping features in 6 :-) With ANY
new OS, people should expect updates to fix
the problems. No OS can be beta-tested enough..
it's releasing it into the wild and seeing havoc
it causes (read: Windows ME) to see what all is
really wrong. The problem is that when a Microsoft
product has a problem, it takes them too long to get fixes for them. When something is wrong in
Linux, you have a better chance of someoene coming
up with a fix when more people are working on it
(particularly security flaws) Not dealing with
MACs much, I don't know what their history for this really is, but this update thing seems par for the course to me.