Decades ago I worked on a billing system that used a unique ID comprising the first three letters of the customer's surname followed by the first letter of the customer's given name. The ID was prominently printed on all customer facing paperwork - invoices, letters etc.
Then along came Mrs Cunningham. Mrs Tina Cunningham.
Surely only a tiny fraction of people would be in bed by 9pm, so I can't see that explaining a spike in tablet use mid-evening.
My guess is that the main TV was being used to watch normal programs and the iPads (lets face it, the tablets were almost certainly ipads) were being used to follow the olympics out of the corner of the TV watcher's eye.
Wash. Rinse Repeat.
Macs aren't as vulnerable because they don't have a big enough footprint so they aren't stumbling upon the infected sites or aren't being targeted directly.
I don't buy this reasoning. Malware writers would quite happily release malware for OSX if they could make it work. Just look back 20yrs ago - there was plenty of malware for Amigas and Ataris, even though their numbers were measured in thousands rather than millions.
My comany's new CTO (a total MS drone) came in 18 months ago and the first thing he did was launch a jihad against all the Linux boxen that had been quietly sitting there doing their thing for years. Massive IT pain resulted followed by a major blow out in the IT budget as he busily wrote cheques to MS and Dell. He thought he'd won.
Then along came the iPad. First the Board of Directors started asking why they couldn't read the board papers on their iPads, then the CEO wanted one and asked why he couldn't get his email working, then all the executives wanted one. Now iPads have spread down four levels of management. Then people started asking about integrating iPhone because they didn't like having to carry a blackberry just for work.
The CTO kept talking about how insecure apples were compared to MS and that it'll take months of careful study to integrate. Last week the CEO sacked him.
These a drugs that only poor tribal people really need. If it were research for something like a cancer drug (ie bought by rich westerners), then their moral high ground would quickly vanish.
I logged in after the update to find that me pet had wandered outside (I was at an inn). I whistled and it came back saying that it had lost a bunch of skills.
[PDFs] have never been designed to be an easily editable format, other than for forms and the like perhaps, and it would be crazy to start treating them as such.
Forms are exactly what I had in mind. In the last week I've used Openoffice to fill in a pdf criminal records check form and an thirteen (!!) page professional license application form.
I used version 2.4 for essay writing during some recent post-grad study and now that I'm used to it I wouldn't go back to ms-word. The ability to save as pdf was really convenient.
Version 3 has the ability to edit pdf - that could be a killer feature.
Is anyone else noticing the almost exponential rise in the rate at which new features are being added to the kernel? Linux major release anouncements would dwarf similar anouncements by 'competing' operating systems.
I don't think it can be entirely attributed to the linux kernel merely catching-up with other operating systems.
Exactly. He says he was snowed by SCO, but it seems to me that he chose to be wilfully ignorant. The key omission from his article is any explanation as to why he chose to ignore the analysis provided at Groklaw. He's like a man at the races guessing which horse is going to win based on something superficial like the colour of the jockey's shirt.
Seems to me he's a 'sound bite' journalist - he sees his job as merely copying down a juicy sound bite instead of actually researching a topic. That said, it could also be that he's too lazy to do the research, or too thick to understanding the technical analaysis at Groklaw.
...lets me keep the box somewhere secure (esp. from burglars who now have two of PCs - hi, if your reading this on one of them), and lets me run a single 15m cable combining connectors for monitor, keyboard, dvd and a USB port. Then next time I'm burgled I just lose the peripherals rather than the box and hds.
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Decades ago I worked on a billing system that used a unique ID comprising the first three letters of the customer's surname followed by the first letter of the customer's given name. The ID was prominently printed on all customer facing paperwork - invoices, letters etc.
Then along came Mrs Cunningham. Mrs Tina Cunningham.
Surely only a tiny fraction of people would be in bed by 9pm, so I can't see that explaining a spike in tablet use mid-evening. My guess is that the main TV was being used to watch normal programs and the iPads (lets face it, the tablets were almost certainly ipads) were being used to follow the olympics out of the corner of the TV watcher's eye.
Wash. Rinse Repeat. Macs aren't as vulnerable because they don't have a big enough footprint so they aren't stumbling upon the infected sites or aren't being targeted directly.
I don't buy this reasoning. Malware writers would quite happily release malware for OSX if they could make it work. Just look back 20yrs ago - there was plenty of malware for Amigas and Ataris, even though their numbers were measured in thousands rather than millions.
My comany's new CTO (a total MS drone) came in 18 months ago and the first thing he did was launch a jihad against all the Linux boxen that had been quietly sitting there doing their thing for years. Massive IT pain resulted followed by a major blow out in the IT budget as he busily wrote cheques to MS and Dell. He thought he'd won. Then along came the iPad. First the Board of Directors started asking why they couldn't read the board papers on their iPads, then the CEO wanted one and asked why he couldn't get his email working, then all the executives wanted one. Now iPads have spread down four levels of management. Then people started asking about integrating iPhone because they didn't like having to carry a blackberry just for work. The CTO kept talking about how insecure apples were compared to MS and that it'll take months of careful study to integrate. Last week the CEO sacked him.
Anyone unable to get Chrome to autofill the new Slashdot password dialog? Not working for me.
What is this, the middle ages?
so why trouble their poor little minds with actually even knowing they have a choice of ISP or OS.
These a drugs that only poor tribal people really need. If it were research for something like a cancer drug (ie bought by rich westerners), then their moral high ground would quickly vanish.
Masturbating Monkey
I logged in after the update to find that me pet had wandered outside (I was at an inn). I whistled and it came back saying that it had lost a bunch of skills.
Is that a bug, or do I just need to get a life?
Thanks - yours is the most lucid explanation of the difference between plasma and lcd. Saved me lots of research!
I'm told that in respect of the current generation (7th?) lcd is leading, but if I wait six months for gen 8, then plasma should pull ahead.
PPS: don't care too much about energy usage!
[PDFs] have never been designed to be an easily editable format, other than for forms and the like perhaps, and it would be crazy to start treating them as such.
Forms are exactly what I had in mind. In the last week I've used Openoffice to fill in a pdf criminal records check form and an thirteen (!!) page professional license application form.
PDF export from Word is available as a freebie plug-in from MS in Word 2007
You get to download a freebie plug-in for your expensive wordprocessor, I get to download a freebie wordprocessor with a freebie plug-in.
I win.
I used version 2.4 for essay writing during some recent post-grad study and now that I'm used to it I wouldn't go back to ms-word. The ability to save as pdf was really convenient.
Version 3 has the ability to edit pdf - that could be a killer feature.
Terminate and Stay Resident
That brings back memories - I even dragged up from the depths of my mind a vague image of the linked list structure for chaining multiple TSRs.
It seemed so simple then, but now I'm increasingly prone to the "he can't even program the DVR" syndrome.
If I didn't have a copy of Word as well I wouldn't have known the difference and would have been sending out crappy looking resumes.
Word?? Surely you'd send a resume as a pdf rather than as a word document?
Is anyone else noticing the almost exponential rise in the rate at which new features are being added to the kernel? Linux major release anouncements would dwarf similar anouncements by 'competing' operating systems.
I don't think it can be entirely attributed to the linux kernel merely catching-up with other operating systems.
Exactly. He says he was snowed by SCO, but it seems to me that he chose to be wilfully ignorant. The key omission from his article is any explanation as to why he chose to ignore the analysis provided at Groklaw. He's like a man at the races guessing which horse is going to win based on something superficial like the colour of the jockey's shirt.
Seems to me he's a 'sound bite' journalist - he sees his job as merely copying down a juicy sound bite instead of actually researching a topic. That said, it could also be that he's too lazy to do the research, or too thick to understanding the technical analaysis at Groklaw.
Probably all of the above.
"...but it was almost impossible to work out what open-source was actually costing..."
They kept getting a div by $0 error.
...lets me keep the box somewhere secure (esp. from burglars who now have two of PCs - hi, if your reading this on one of them), and lets me run a single 15m cable combining connectors for monitor, keyboard, dvd and a USB port. Then next time I'm burgled I just lose the peripherals rather than the box and hds.
PS: the apt-file command comes from the apt-file package.
...and I told them to adopt the standard linux filesystem, you know, the one implemented by GoboLinux.
I look forward to seeing the results.
The article says that they'll 'venture into outer space'. Isn't it just 'space', not 'outer space'??