It looks like the ELUA problems might also cause issues with the data protection act in the UK.
I may allow company X to give other companies access to my personal data, without that permission company X would not be able to agree to Microsoft ELUA which could potentially give Microsoft access to you personal data.
There's currently a big thing in the UK about local loop unbundeling. The local loop are the wires that run from the exchange to your house.
It would appear that the plan is to use the local electric loop (run a few feet underground in the UK) and switch it on to conventional lines at the substation.
I started to make some RS232 plugs that worked in a simila way about 10 or so years ago, you could get about 14k with home kit at the time.
It's not the same, If the service is free it is paid for indirectly and can be withdrawn on a whim.
In the UK putting a stamp on the letter means that it will be delivered to the addressee or returned. or that the delivery is guaranteed and directly paid for.
Under this condition mail forwarding cannot be withdrawn.
There's a hell of a lot of difference between without additional charge, inclusively charged and free.
I agree, There are a lot of hidden costs in 'developing' a project.
Evaluating, producing the bid and assessing workloads before you even place a bid. This should take not less than half a day (for a very small project!) charged at between $700-$1200 a day.
Then there's the closing down of the project when your 'finished' again not less than half a day.
You also need to take into account full cycle development, say 1 months critical support post completion charged by hour or on a service contract there afterwards........
If your prepared to take on the 'very small' $3000 projects fair enough but there soooo much hassle, the client will expect all of the above to be thrown in, larger companies realise that there's a lot of pre , post and peripheral project work that needs to take place and will expect your bids to take this into account.
* Density: 2.51 g/cm3
* Crystal structure: Rombohedral
* Melting Point: around 2,450oC
* Very high hardness: It is third hardest material next to diamond and cubic boron nitride (cBN).
* Thermal expansion coefficient: 5 X 10-4 oC-1
* High resistance to chemical attack
* Boron carbide has a high neutron absorption cross section -- for thermal neutron is around 4,000 barns. And the price is much less than pure boron. * Electrical conductive: electrical resistivity at 25oC is 0.1-10 ohm . cm
The UK Atomic Wearpons Establisment hold a complex fabrication patent, they can make more or less any shape they want.
Dress code has frequently come down to praticallity. Long hair has long been the choice of the gentry because they it takes a hell of a lot of looking after and shows that you are of a high enough class to have long hair. Finger nails are the same, a working class woman could never praticly keep long finger nails, they would break, long nails show you status in society.
During the revolutions accross europe that shunned the upper classes short hair became the fassion because it was a pratical way of not dieing! and it has been that way ever since.
You normaly use this kind of speed if you want to do motion analysis.
Say your company does crash tests or you want to find out what happens when something explodes.
if you frame size was 30cm squared (about a foot) then 12000 frames per second would allow you to capture 10 frames of somthing travelling at about the speed of sound(i think my math is correct!) or a few frames of a bullet.
All of the exploits are because of bugs in the IE code not because someone forgot to check a password hash(like the SSL bug).
IE crashes on a regular bases(or at least the version I have to use at work does). If some of the 'security' patches also improve stability then there's a good reason to update IE.
The normal process for updating the majority of servers where I work is to apply the updates out of hours, there all redundant, the out of hours just insures that there's less downtime if the updates screw up the servers. If the update was critical+ then we would switch to the redundant servers and perform the update during operating hours.
We also run mission critical 24/7 services there load ballanced/pooled and a version of the update procedures I mentioned is used when updating these systems.
Don't -1 the parent, a good point was made , just not that well.
If your servers are configured correctly and you have redundancy in place then there should be no problem installing this update,
If you don't use load balancing then just bring the warm/cold server online while you take the server your about to update off line.
Spend a few days testing the updated server.
and then sync with the cold/warm server and repeat.
If you load balancing then take some servers out of the loop and run them concurrently to make sure Microsoft hasn't broken anything then repeat until all servers are updated.
If all of the above sounds like voodoo then you should be more concerned about you internal systems than any bugs that might be in Windows.
When asked about what effects the EULA would have on security a Microsoft spokesman said, 'Giving us [Microsoft] access to your [the ELUA agreers] computer will ensure that your computer systems are impervious to viruses[Microsoft Windows]'
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It looks like the ELUA problems might also cause issues with the data protection act in the UK.
I may allow company X to give other companies access to my personal data, without that permission company X would not be able to agree to Microsoft ELUA which could potentially give Microsoft access to you personal data.
2 programmers will probably always do a better job of things then 5 programmers on a job that size.
If the single doctrine of the religion was to answer Jedi to what is your religion on the census form that that makes is as good a religion as any.
There's currently a big thing in the UK about local loop unbundeling. The local loop are the wires that run from the exchange to your house.
It would appear that the plan is to use the local electric loop (run a few feet underground in the UK) and switch it on to conventional lines at the substation.
I started to make some RS232 plugs that worked in a simila way about 10 or so years ago, you could get about 14k with home kit at the time.
It's not the same,
If the service is free it is paid for indirectly and can be withdrawn on a whim.
In the UK putting a stamp on the letter means that it will be delivered to the addressee or returned. or that the delivery is guaranteed and directly paid for.
Under this condition mail forwarding cannot be withdrawn.
There's a hell of a lot of difference between without additional charge, inclusively charged and free.
I agree,
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/. for spelling and gramma corrections.
There are a lot of hidden costs in 'developing' a project.
Evaluating, producing the bid and assessing workloads before you even place a bid.
This should take not less than half a day (for a very small project!) charged at between $700-$1200 a day.
Then there's the closing down of the project when your 'finished' again not less than half a day.
You also need to take into account full cycle development, say 1 months critical support post completion charged by hour or on a service contract there afterwards.
If your prepared to take on the 'very small' $3000 projects fair enough but there soooo much hassle, the client will expect all of the above to be thrown in, larger companies realise that there's a lot of pre , post and peripheral project work that needs to take place and will expect your bids to take this into account.
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Mail forward and returning of mail isn't free UK, it's included in the price of the original stamp.
how about
some of this
Properties
* Density: 2.51 g/cm3
* Crystal structure: Rombohedral
* Melting Point: around 2,450oC
* Very high hardness: It is third hardest material next to diamond and cubic boron nitride (cBN).
* Thermal expansion coefficient: 5 X 10-4 oC-1
* High resistance to chemical attack
* Boron carbide has a high neutron absorption cross section -- for thermal neutron is around 4,000 barns. And the price is much less than pure boron.
* Electrical conductive: electrical resistivity at 25oC is 0.1-10 ohm . cm
The UK Atomic Wearpons Establisment hold a complex fabrication patent, they can make more or less any shape they want.
Dress code has frequently come down to praticallity.
Long hair has long been the choice of the gentry because they it takes a hell of a lot of looking after and shows that you are of a high enough class to have long hair.
Finger nails are the same, a working class woman could never praticly keep long finger nails, they would break, long nails show you status in society.
During the revolutions accross europe that shunned the upper classes short hair became the fassion because it was a pratical way of not dieing! and it has been that way ever since.
If words don't seem to convince them download or order a trail version of CBuilder / Delphi from borlands site and show them that VC6 sucks.
It'll only take about 10mins to convince them!
Bullets frequently travel faster than the speed of sound, infact you can buy "special" sub-sonic ones.
so do some kinds of explosion also travel faster than the speed of sound.
i hope your just a troll.
You normaly use this kind of speed if you want to do motion analysis.
Say your company does crash tests or you want to find out what happens when something explodes.
if you frame size was 30cm squared (about a foot) then 12000 frames per second would allow you to capture 10 frames of somthing travelling at about the speed of sound(i think my math is correct!)
or a few frames of a bullet.
Well couldn't he get the work done(patch intergration etc...) outside the EU? like by alan cox who refuses to goto the US.
It always amazed me, why so OSS is hosted in the US with it's bad parent law, tendencies to sue everyone, DMCA and cryptography export restrictions.
How can software patents be applied in the EU when at the moment there are no such things as software patents in the EU.
No it's due to bad muscle control.
You should see the state of my handwriting!
Would the correct frequencys of light be strong enough in sunlight though or will the atmosphere filter them out?
Funny you should mention ants.
There's an old film(1973) called phase IV that's exactly what your going on about!!
I'm sure you'll all slam me if I'm wrong,
but doesn't laser surgery use specify frequencies of light to localise the burning amongst other things?
I'm no big M$ fan, but doesn't windows 2000 server support DNS and DHCP as is, I know Windows 2000 AS does.
Perhaps a database and mail server would make a better better argument.
All of the exploits are because of bugs in the IE code not because someone forgot to check a password hash(like the SSL bug).
IE crashes on a regular bases(or at least the version I have to use at work does). If some of the 'security' patches also improve stability then there's a good reason to update IE.
The normal process for updating the majority of servers where I work is to apply the updates out of hours, there all redundant, the out of hours just insures that there's less downtime if the updates screw up the servers. If the update was critical+ then we would switch to the redundant servers and perform the update during operating hours.
We also run mission critical 24/7 services there load ballanced/pooled and a version of the update procedures I mentioned is used when updating these systems.
Though what you say may at first appear to be true,
You may require FTP or HTTP access onto other parts of the network from the servers.
Local documentation may be in HTML
configurations may render though an inbeded IE component (like the evily unstable Micsoroft Management Console)
When you consider that IE isn't a web browser any more than a HTML rendering component then updating IE makes sense.
Maybe the question you should ask is 'Why are you running a GUI on a server'
Don't -1 the parent, a good point was made , just not that well.
If your servers are configured correctly and you have redundancy in place then there should be no problem installing this update,
If you don't use load balancing then just bring the warm/cold server online while you take the server your about to update off line.
Spend a few days testing the updated server.
and then sync with the cold/warm server and repeat.
If you load balancing then take some servers out of the loop and run them concurrently to make sure Microsoft hasn't broken anything then repeat until all servers are updated.
If all of the above sounds like voodoo then you should be more concerned about you internal systems than any bugs that might be in Windows.
When asked about what effects the EULA would have on security a Microsoft spokesman said,
'Giving us [Microsoft] access to your [the ELUA agreers] computer will ensure that your computer systems are impervious to viruses[Microsoft Windows]'
you forgot 'Microsoft warns about security holes'
posted on Friday August 23, @12:38PM