I have a yellow wood axe (can't recall the brand off hand) with the following imprinted on the handle: "The color Yellow is trademarked..." to whatever company it was. It is absurdities like this that make the world a ridiculous place. But I suppose since none of this capitalist BS means anything outside of our puny little planet, I guess it doesn't have to make sense.
Forget the legal problems with a company solely dedicated to luring other companies into court, why is Righthaven even allowed to be a company? I'm all for capitalism, but if selling sex (something both natural and legal on it's own) isn't legal, how is intentionally trying to harm other companies and their ability to turn a profit? This is the corporate equivalent of parking a van outside an elementary school with the words "free candy" spray painted on the side.
Steel is the most recycled material on the planet. It is also plenty strong for most applications. So my question is, how much does this super-nano-paper cost? That will be key in its success.
Since when did Slashdot start posting FUD from companies looking to tarnish a competitor's product?
This is exactly the kind of planted review I expect to see in an App Store comment section. 50% from the developers, 50% from the competition.
Listen, I have 3 kids who all love to use the iPad and not one of them can't figure out how to navigate in and between apps. They are ages 10, 6 and 1.5 respectively. I'd call that intuitive.
It's all lolcats and forwarded emails from people who swore they received checks from Microsoft, sprinkled with the occasional note to the president (at the time) somewhere along the lines of,
IT isn't about training, it's about being able to find answers and solve problems of a technical nature. Development requires training, although the best developers I know are almost entirely self-taught.
The best in IT usually come from other backgrounds, and have an aptitude for technology. The "pure techies" don't go very far. Throw in an MBA, CGA or PMO certificate and you are moving up in IT.
...that it wasn't there before. We tend to think of the universe as pretty static, sometimes, and look for answers as if the questions never change. But what if this just showed up? Would we worry?
What it if were headed this way?
While you could very well go about manually documenting every piece of the network, and hope it remains relevant and up to date in the future, this could take weeks and add significant overhead to your role in keeping current. I recommend looking into the many auto-discovery tools available from vendors like HP, BMC, Computer Associates, etc... They aim to store everything in a single database (CMDB) and track any changes or additions by scheduling delta-discoveries whenever you deem fit. The initial setup can be a lot of work, but since you know most of the information required by the auto-discovery tools for accessing system information (usernames, passwords, IP subnets, common services, ports...), it should be pretty straight forward for you. In a larger organization where this information is spread around various groups, it can be a lot more challenging.
HP has a product, formerly by a company called Mercury, that I find works quite well. It would at least be a good place to start looking... Link here.
Good luck!
First, you all thought how cool it would be to have a half-phone, half iPod. They gave that to you, but it sucked (Motorolla). Then you speculated about one with Wi-fi, that could watch movies and maybe play games and they gave you the iPhone. But you are still not happy. Now you want it to be completely open so you are free to hack away at it even though no company could support such a device? You said they couldn't breach the corporate market, already dominated by RIM, and now that they are trying you murder them for it?
I call Shenanigans. Does nothing satiate you people? Is this how you foster innovation, by cutting down any company who puts out a device that doesn't have the latest and greatest?
I don't own an iPhone, because it isn't available in the Great White North as of yet, but I do know it is a cool device that does some cool things. Sure, other devices can do those things too, but not quite in the same way as Apple, which has always been their selling point. Don't like it? Go make your own 4G, super VoiP, free Radio, Open Source phone that does everything the iPhone doesn't.
Yeah, I thought not.
Corporate support doesn't come from the manufacturer itself. It is contracted out to companies like Getronix, Nexx Innovations, and other home-grown companies that have 'x' in the name and low paid techs. What needs to happen in order for Apple to grow in this market is someone needs to put together an all-apple support crew, and get that contract to provide 24/7 on-site support.
It is also worth noting that this model of support didn't happen over night. It took years. If Apple is seriously looking at getting into the Corporate space, they need to get on this.
I would, but it might put my shakras out of alignment. Back to my iLife...
And if you want horror stories, how about the Dell my brother in law bought with a DOA hard drive, that only made a grinding sound when you turned on the machine. It was audible from the next room, and the Dell support personel told him to reinstall the OS. No lie. He put the phone up to the machine to the person could hear what resembled a rock crusher, and the guy insisted he follow the procedure of reinstalling. We escalated to "2nd level", which might have been the guy next to him or even the same guy acting like he spoke differently for all we know, and he said the same thing. 2 weeks later, he had a replacement drive shipped out which we had to install.
I don't count this as the norm. I have had excellent support from both Dell and Apple on many occasions.
In the same way that walking everywhere is safer than driving. Sure, you might bump into someone, or maybe get mugged on your way but the chances of you dying are a lot less...
Considering much of the issues surrounding personal computers and security stem from "where" people go on the Internet, such as phishing sites, questionable links promising to improve your browsing experience or give you something for free, etc... I don't think it matters whether you are in high-speed or not. Okay, you could argue that people scan the Internet for open ports on always-on home networks, but how do you think those ports got opened? It is usually from something that made it's way onto your machine either by way of major security flaw, or more likely something you allowed to get there by one of the above mentioned means.
I have seen the result of PCs that were hijacked for illicit purposes, such as password grabbing. My worksplace was targetted by those machines, and used to access accounts that didn't belong to the people who's machines were sending the traffic. And when we traced back to the source machines in many cases the IP address that had attacked us was from dialup ISPs. I would say more than 25%, but I am speaking of a handful of incidents and that wouldn't be a very reliable statistic. It was still a fair number.
So in my opinion, it doesn't matter. Don't limit yourself to snail-surfing because someone you know has a bad feeling about high speed. If you really want to be secure, simply disconnect altogether, and bury the thing about 6-feet in the ground. That, or don't click on the dancing monkey who promises you a prize...;-)
...some poor bastard in MS was asked to come up with a solution to the piracy problem, and all he/they could come up with was a browser add-on that could be bypassed with either a single line paste into the browser, or by disabling it using the very add-on manager that was released just months ago by the same team! How do you manage that kind of idiocy? The project probably had a budget of more than I make in a year!
All they have to do is realize that there are no stand-alone machines anymore. Do an online validation of all license keys, and quit reusing the same keys for personal or select customers and the problem is solved! How hard is that? The damn key is long enough that it could very well be universally unique, and it's not like they don't have the technology to handle it.
For Select customers they could simply issue a key generator that itself does online validation, or stores a bank of keys that can be invalidated whenever a machine is reimaged.
The whole thing reminds me of so many projects where I work. They start by asking for the world, and end up implementing a mickey-mouse solution because of so much political BS. It is what happens when a company gets too big. Nothing progresses anymore because too many parties have a say in things, and no one wants to give up their piece of the pie.
But if you throw in the bluetooth keyboard + mouse, not only do you still have your USB ports, but you don't have any bloody wires to mess around with.
This is what I did for my G5 iMac. It's well worth the extra $$.
Luckily, I assumed from the beginning that I was either being had, or the powerbooks had "fallen off of a truck". When I asked the question of how this person came to possess 5 unused 15" pbooks, they got all defensive and really started pushing me to buy. However, if I were Justin, I would have dropped the whole thing as soon as 'Sal' wrote, "i bought 3 of these along with 2 12inch and 1 17inch from a firm that upgraded to windows based laptops"...
I have a Mac, a Red Hat box and a Windows XP box. Each runs a different default media player and browser and none of them was something I explicitly asked for, except in Red Hat where I did ask for a browser and was given one.
Who cares? None of the browser companies stood a chance in hell at actually making any money and neither does Real, the only really commercial media player.
Besides, can anyone make any real use of an OS without these things built-in? What we need is a common set of standards that all of the browsers and media players can adhere to so that it doesn't matter WHAT OS we use.
I am afraid I will have to report you for your flagrant use of the Unix trademark in your posting without express written consent by the SCO Group (and their big-brother, Microsoft).
You will be required to pay 10-trillion US dollars to the SCO group for your offence.
(Disclaimer: This posting is a parody and does not represent the opinions of the SCO Group (or Microsoft))
...I don't think I had to. It's pretty obvious these so-called "artists" are only interested in one thing, money. I've seen big-ticket artists' albums go for up to $35 in stores, for a measly 15-song CD and I think these rich-ass bastards like it that way. Someone must have told them that if only 5 of the songs on the release are any good, they stand to lose that $30 worth of "filler" tracks they recorded as an after-thought over a weekend to get the album released on time. I mean, Radiohead is one of my favorite bands, but they release 3 albums a year!
Why?
What happened anyways? 50 Years ago being a musician wasn't the height of society, and now they get more respect, privelage, and money than any other profession!
I seriously think this whole digital music revolution is nothing more than the long overdue wake-up call for everyone in the music industry who thought this was going to last forever.
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I have a yellow wood axe (can't recall the brand off hand) with the following imprinted on the handle: "The color Yellow is trademarked..." to whatever company it was. It is absurdities like this that make the world a ridiculous place. But I suppose since none of this capitalist BS means anything outside of our puny little planet, I guess it doesn't have to make sense.
Forget the legal problems with a company solely dedicated to luring other companies into court, why is Righthaven even allowed to be a company? I'm all for capitalism, but if selling sex (something both natural and legal on it's own) isn't legal, how is intentionally trying to harm other companies and their ability to turn a profit? This is the corporate equivalent of parking a van outside an elementary school with the words "free candy" spray painted on the side.
Steel is the most recycled material on the planet. It is also plenty strong for most applications. So my question is, how much does this super-nano-paper cost? That will be key in its success.
Since when did Slashdot start posting FUD from companies looking to tarnish a competitor's product?
This is exactly the kind of planted review I expect to see in an App Store comment section. 50% from the developers, 50% from the competition.
Listen, I have 3 kids who all love to use the iPad and not one of them can't figure out how to navigate in and between apps. They are ages 10, 6 and 1.5 respectively. I'd call that intuitive.
1984 was not an instruction manual.
Sincerely,
The rest of the World.
It's all lolcats and forwarded emails from people who swore they received checks from Microsoft, sprinkled with the occasional note to the president (at the time) somewhere along the lines of,
"Do you like me? Check one:
-Yes
-No
-Maybe"
IT isn't about training, it's about being able to find answers and solve problems of a technical nature. Development requires training, although the best developers I know are almost entirely self-taught. The best in IT usually come from other backgrounds, and have an aptitude for technology. The "pure techies" don't go very far. Throw in an MBA, CGA or PMO certificate and you are moving up in IT.
...that it wasn't there before. We tend to think of the universe as pretty static, sometimes, and look for answers as if the questions never change. But what if this just showed up? Would we worry? What it if were headed this way?
While you could very well go about manually documenting every piece of the network, and hope it remains relevant and up to date in the future, this could take weeks and add significant overhead to your role in keeping current. I recommend looking into the many auto-discovery tools available from vendors like HP, BMC, Computer Associates, etc... They aim to store everything in a single database (CMDB) and track any changes or additions by scheduling delta-discoveries whenever you deem fit. The initial setup can be a lot of work, but since you know most of the information required by the auto-discovery tools for accessing system information (usernames, passwords, IP subnets, common services, ports...), it should be pretty straight forward for you. In a larger organization where this information is spread around various groups, it can be a lot more challenging.
HP has a product, formerly by a company called Mercury, that I find works quite well. It would at least be a good place to start looking... Link here. Good luck!
First, you all thought how cool it would be to have a half-phone, half iPod. They gave that to you, but it sucked (Motorolla). Then you speculated about one with Wi-fi, that could watch movies and maybe play games and they gave you the iPhone. But you are still not happy. Now you want it to be completely open so you are free to hack away at it even though no company could support such a device? You said they couldn't breach the corporate market, already dominated by RIM, and now that they are trying you murder them for it? I call Shenanigans. Does nothing satiate you people? Is this how you foster innovation, by cutting down any company who puts out a device that doesn't have the latest and greatest? I don't own an iPhone, because it isn't available in the Great White North as of yet, but I do know it is a cool device that does some cool things. Sure, other devices can do those things too, but not quite in the same way as Apple, which has always been their selling point. Don't like it? Go make your own 4G, super VoiP, free Radio, Open Source phone that does everything the iPhone doesn't. Yeah, I thought not.
Corporate support doesn't come from the manufacturer itself. It is contracted out to companies like Getronix, Nexx Innovations, and other home-grown companies that have 'x' in the name and low paid techs. What needs to happen in order for Apple to grow in this market is someone needs to put together an all-apple support crew, and get that contract to provide 24/7 on-site support.
It is also worth noting that this model of support didn't happen over night. It took years. If Apple is seriously looking at getting into the Corporate space, they need to get on this.
I would, but it might put my shakras out of alignment. Back to my iLife...
And if you want horror stories, how about the Dell my brother in law bought with a DOA hard drive, that only made a grinding sound when you turned on the machine. It was audible from the next room, and the Dell support personel told him to reinstall the OS. No lie. He put the phone up to the machine to the person could hear what resembled a rock crusher, and the guy insisted he follow the procedure of reinstalling. We escalated to "2nd level", which might have been the guy next to him or even the same guy acting like he spoke differently for all we know, and he said the same thing. 2 weeks later, he had a replacement drive shipped out which we had to install.
I don't count this as the norm. I have had excellent support from both Dell and Apple on many occasions.
Everytime your government loses or mis-spends $450 Million, then tells you it was spent on some mythical "spy-sattelite" you go and believe them?
Gross profit when the people who need your medicine the most can't afford it: $0 (zero) USD
In the same way that walking everywhere is safer than driving. Sure, you might bump into someone, or maybe get mugged on your way but the chances of you dying are a lot less...
;-)
Considering much of the issues surrounding personal computers and security stem from "where" people go on the Internet, such as phishing sites, questionable links promising to improve your browsing experience or give you something for free, etc... I don't think it matters whether you are in high-speed or not. Okay, you could argue that people scan the Internet for open ports on always-on home networks, but how do you think those ports got opened? It is usually from something that made it's way onto your machine either by way of major security flaw, or more likely something you allowed to get there by one of the above mentioned means.
I have seen the result of PCs that were hijacked for illicit purposes, such as password grabbing. My worksplace was targetted by those machines, and used to access accounts that didn't belong to the people who's machines were sending the traffic. And when we traced back to the source machines in many cases the IP address that had attacked us was from dialup ISPs. I would say more than 25%, but I am speaking of a handful of incidents and that wouldn't be a very reliable statistic. It was still a fair number.
So in my opinion, it doesn't matter. Don't limit yourself to snail-surfing because someone you know has a bad feeling about high speed. If you really want to be secure, simply disconnect altogether, and bury the thing about 6-feet in the ground. That, or don't click on the dancing monkey who promises you a prize...
...some poor bastard in MS was asked to come up with a solution to the piracy problem, and all he/they could come up with was a browser add-on that could be bypassed with either a single line paste into the browser, or by disabling it using the very add-on manager that was released just months ago by the same team! How do you manage that kind of idiocy? The project probably had a budget of more than I make in a year!
All they have to do is realize that there are no stand-alone machines anymore. Do an online validation of all license keys, and quit reusing the same keys for personal or select customers and the problem is solved! How hard is that? The damn key is long enough that it could very well be universally unique, and it's not like they don't have the technology to handle it.
For Select customers they could simply issue a key generator that itself does online validation, or stores a bank of keys that can be invalidated whenever a machine is reimaged.
The whole thing reminds me of so many projects where I work. They start by asking for the world, and end up implementing a mickey-mouse solution because of so much political BS. It is what happens when a company gets too big. Nothing progresses anymore because too many parties have a say in things, and no one wants to give up their piece of the pie.
But if you throw in the bluetooth keyboard + mouse, not only do you still have your USB ports, but you don't have any bloody wires to mess around with.
This is what I did for my G5 iMac. It's well worth the extra $$.
My boss doesn't pay me to think. He pays me to do. Why, if I was allowed to think, I might actually accomplish something!
Auntie M.?
Has anyone seen The Wizard of Oz?
Luckily, I assumed from the beginning that I was either being had, or the powerbooks had "fallen off of a truck". When I asked the question of how this person came to possess 5 unused 15" pbooks, they got all defensive and really started pushing me to buy. However, if I were Justin, I would have dropped the whole thing as soon as 'Sal' wrote, "i bought 3 of these along with 2 12inch and 1 17inch from a firm that upgraded to windows based laptops"...
Upgraded?
Has this person ever seen a powerbook?
Us Mac owners aren't zealots for nothin', man!
Why, I floss sometimes twice a week!
My dentist tells me it will help prevent gingivitis and gall darnit, it feels pretty good, too!
I think everyone should floss.
I have a Mac, a Red Hat box and a Windows XP box. Each runs a different default media player and browser and none of them was something I explicitly asked for, except in Red Hat where I did ask for a browser and was given one.
Who cares? None of the browser companies stood a chance in hell at actually making any money and neither does Real, the only really commercial media player.
Besides, can anyone make any real use of an OS without these things built-in? What we need is a common set of standards that all of the browsers and media players can adhere to so that it doesn't matter WHAT OS we use.
Oh, wait...
At my office, we have Win2K Group Policies which prevent CD Autorun. Is my company violating the DCMA?
This whole thing is rediculous. Can't anyone do anything down there in America(TM) without getting sued anymore?
Come to Canada, everything is legal up here!
Now I KNOW the game will be released for my Mac. So what if it's not by Valve?
I am afraid I will have to report you for your flagrant use of the Unix trademark in your posting without express written consent by the SCO Group (and their big-brother, Microsoft).
You will be required to pay 10-trillion US dollars to the SCO group for your offence.
(Disclaimer: This posting is a parody and does not represent the opinions of the SCO Group (or Microsoft))
...I don't think I had to. It's pretty obvious these so-called "artists" are only interested in one thing, money.
I've seen big-ticket artists' albums go for up to $35 in stores, for a measly 15-song CD and I think these rich-ass bastards like it that way. Someone must have told them that if only 5 of the songs on the release are any good, they stand to lose that $30 worth of "filler" tracks they recorded as an after-thought over a weekend to get the album released on time.
I mean, Radiohead is one of my favorite bands, but they release 3 albums a year!
Why?
What happened anyways? 50 Years ago being a musician wasn't the height of society, and now they get more respect, privelage, and money than any other profession!
I seriously think this whole digital music revolution is nothing more than the long overdue wake-up call for everyone in the music industry who thought this was going to last forever.