From what I have read, people haven't been all that impressed with Linspire. Even if it's free, is it worth the trouble with all the other distributions out there?
Opera (or Firefox) isn't immune to phishing attacks. How would you know you're giving your banking info to a phony site that looks exactly like your own bank's login screen? Especially if the domain name is correct?
I assume SSL would catch some of this, but not all.
DNS poisoning is creepy, since it's browser/OS agnostic.
I always thought the the computer guy DeNiro hired in The Score was a pretty accurate portrayal. I especially like the basement geek lair. As to how this could entice anybody into CS is anybody's guess.
There's only one PCI slot - with support for two cards (via a riser?). No AGP. A semi-custom CPU. Not very expandable. What kind of upgrade path will this thing have?
I'm a sysadmin for a small nonprofit, and after seven years with them, I went to 60% time (three days a week, or three-fifths time, take your pick) to take care of my son. I earn approximately 60% of my full-time salary, but I keep my full-time benefits.
The upshot of this is that I have fallen into a lower tax bracket, and my paycheck is actually a bit more than 60% of my FT pay. Regardless, not being in an office full-time (and speding all this time with my son) is very rewarding.
Staff at the office have been understanding (and it helps to have a boss who has kids), and I can remote-admin if things go really sour.
If you're not sure your emplyer will go for a reduced-time/salary deal, do a little legwork and try to come up with answers to as many of the questions you'll likely get asked, offload any tasks you think you can someone else can do, and offer to make the plan probationary, with periodic reviews (three months, six months, etc.).
Don't dismiss IM so quickly. Have you ever seen kids and preteens using a computer with an Internet connection? The "Hi-Hi-How are you-Fine dialog" you describe is typical kidspeak.
The kids I have seen using computers LIVE for IM. That ICQ "Uh-Oh" goes off dozens times per evening! If IM had been around way back when, I wouldn't have spent my evenings on the phone, driving my parents crazy.
Now I use IM as a work tool on a daily basis, communicating with geographically distant colleagues. It's very handy to know who's available to answer a quick question. Email and the phone can't give me that functionality
The huge prevalence of IM won't wax and wane with the net's maturity. As the kids will eventually grow out of this communications phase, they will be followed by the next wave of soon-to-be pre-teens.
IMO, IM (eesh - acronymity!) is here to stay, for both societal and practical reasons.
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From what I have read, people haven't been all that impressed with Linspire. Even if it's free, is it worth the trouble with all the other distributions out there?
I couldn't find this information in the article. Are they talking last week, year, decade? Or is this geological recent?
Opera (or Firefox) isn't immune to phishing attacks. How would you know you're giving your banking info to a phony site that looks exactly like your own bank's login screen? Especially if the domain name is correct?
I assume SSL would catch some of this, but not all.
DNS poisoning is creepy, since it's browser/OS agnostic.
And yet - if true - this (and OSS) gets no mention in the review.
And nobody on the review team thought of this?
Where are the OSS products? No Spamassassin?
Some review...
How does DSPAM compare to other OSS projects like Spamassassin?
I always thought the the computer guy DeNiro hired in The Score was a pretty accurate portrayal. I especially like the basement geek lair. As to how this could entice anybody into CS is anybody's guess.
There's only one PCI slot - with support for two cards (via a riser?). No AGP. A semi-custom CPU. Not very expandable. What kind of upgrade path will this thing have?
I'm a sysadmin for a small nonprofit, and after seven years with them, I went to 60% time (three days a week, or three-fifths time, take your pick) to take care of my son. I earn approximately 60% of my full-time salary, but I keep my full-time benefits.
The upshot of this is that I have fallen into a lower tax bracket, and my paycheck is actually a bit more than 60% of my FT pay. Regardless, not being in an office full-time (and speding all this time with my son) is very rewarding.
Staff at the office have been understanding (and it helps to have a boss who has kids), and I can remote-admin if things go really sour.
If you're not sure your emplyer will go for a reduced-time/salary deal, do a little legwork and try to come up with answers to as many of the questions you'll likely get asked, offload any tasks you think you can someone else can do, and offer to make the plan probationary, with periodic reviews (three months, six months, etc.).
Don't dismiss IM so quickly. Have you ever seen kids and preteens using a computer with an Internet connection? The "Hi-Hi-How are you-Fine dialog" you describe is typical kidspeak.
The kids I have seen using computers LIVE for IM. That ICQ "Uh-Oh" goes off dozens times per evening! If IM had been around way back when, I wouldn't have spent my evenings on the phone, driving my parents crazy.
Now I use IM as a work tool on a daily basis, communicating with geographically distant colleagues. It's very handy to know who's available to answer a quick question. Email and the phone can't give me that functionality
The huge prevalence of IM won't wax and wane with the net's maturity. As the kids will eventually grow out of this communications phase, they will be followed by the next wave of soon-to-be pre-teens.
IMO, IM (eesh - acronymity!) is here to stay, for both societal and practical reasons.