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Yes, my ISP(Qwest DSL) has foisted upon me MSN Live as my "ISP" also. I can't see how they can be my ISP given the only thing they provide is email access.
I guess since they support SASL I should just be happy, since I use their servers to route my mail server's SMTP traffic through:)
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It's interesting how AOL's mass mailing of discs and later Cd's made them a gigantic ISP overnight and within ten years their reliance on dialup almost relegated them entirely to a rural customer base.
I had dialup until like '96 when I got @home cable internet(later bought by AT&T, and then Comcast). Funny thing is, I still miss BBS's. Nothing brings back memories of the old days like listening to a fax machine handshake as I daydream of MUDs.
Well, IE5 came over 2 years after NN4 so its not exactly comparing apples to apples.
You're correct that in 1997 neither IE4 nor NN4 supported W3C standards correctly. It's not a bad time to mention that although NN4 gave us BLINK, IE4 brought JScript, Active Script, Active Desktop, ActiveX, and much much more in incompatibility.
At that point in time, NN4 has over 3 times the popularity and many felt at the time that it was a superior program. IE4 was also the first MS browser to have tie-ins with the OS and in fact was the first that may(or may not) be able to be uninstalled without borking the system. Within 2 years, NN was almost gone due to IE bundling with Win 95/98/98SE and no amount of polish or standards compliance was going to keep them competitive.
As a side note, MS may have given us XmlHttpRequest but AJAX wasn't coined until much later because Javascript/DOM standardization wasn't at a point yet where developers could sanely utilize the power of AJAX.
After they crushed Netscape? Maybe you're too young to remember, but Netscape 4 was truly far superior to anything Microsoft had developed up to that point.
All technical factors considered, IE should have died a slow death, not Netscape. The only reason it continued to dominate was due to bundling with Windows, which attained monopoly status illegally. This is all well documented in the DOJ antitrust suit.
Are you being intentionally dense? The reason for this situation is that the EC has determined that Microsoft gained it's monopoly market position illegally. The EC is doing now what the FTC should have done 10 years ago. It's unconscionable that the US has let Microsoft continue their extend/extinguish routine for so long, causing great harm to computing users worldwide.
As an aside, you have to realize also that Microsoft does have an alternative choice here. They can simply choose to cease doing business directly in EU member countries. MS products would remain available through resellers until the EU starts action against them. I wouldn't be surprised if MS chose this route. Given the damaged state of our economy, we need the EU more than they need they need us and the US doesn't have a lot to bargain with in pressuring the EU to drop the matter.
Good question, I'm not sure. Probably could be definitely answered by the real time kernel developers, but I don't know of anything published saying yay or nay.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but quantum mechanics seems to indicate there is not always one outcome for one set of conditions. This works on the macro scale, but not necessarily always on the subatomic level.
Well the problem here is that we couldn't start with HTML 4 or CSS.
HTML has a lot of backwards compatibility, which is sometimes its own Achilles heel. I believe this is the same thing with Windows and I really hope software vendors join the club and start producing more Vista compatible software.
This has been my experience as well. At my former company, we had our own somewhat expensive IT and support crew but everything worked really well. Someone decided to save money by switching to Unisys for help desk support.
Direct support costs went down, but whatever they saved on IT staff we lost 100 times over on lost productivity from help desk tickets being 'resolved' before actual issues and it was a aweful. I have since left the company, but up to the day I left management was still happy using Unisys, which is bizarrely illogical given the higher costs and reduced productivity.
C'est la vie I suppose. Still irks me though how much upper managers get paid for such poor ideas.
For precisely this reason, I would never ever switch to a remote IDE hosted by another company.
A possibly debatable secondary reason is just that I don't want anyone else having access to my code that is potentially going to be released as closed source. Everyone knows IT guys are generally snoopy when they're bored, and sometimes my comments contain profanities directed towards my users.
I think a major source of the decline in parenting is that they don't get involved in education and instead choose to let the media(television, magazines and music) be the parents.
I'm not saying those are all strictly bad influences, but they must be taken in moderation as all things in life. When kids watch +4 hours of TV per day on average, you know something is just wrong.
I used to do oral contracts in business all the time. We never had to go to court with it, because some of our terms were in writing but things like pricing were done orally.
YMMV, some states set limits or exclusions on what can be done orally. For instance, in most states you can't sell a car or real property via oral contract.
I don't necessarily think UAC is a bad idea, just badly implemented by MS. The UAC prompt doesn't display enough information for the user to make an informed decision. A good example is "File Operation". It's quite vague. Do I allow it? What exactly is the program trying to do?
Gnome's privilege escalation isn't much more informative either.
It's a good concept but obviously needs further development.
The OS controls the USB host controller which sets maximum current per port. Assuming the drivers are available for your host controller, Windows and Linux can both direct the host controller to operate within spec.
Unidentified USB devices are limited to a lower current than identified devices. This was done to prevent 'dumb' electronic devices from sinking too much current and breaking the output drivers on the host controller.
Interesting article. Cliff notes for those who don't read articles: KDE & Gnome desktop icons can contain malicious commands.
The common defense that "well at least linux malware can't get root privileges" isn't much of a defense. For many users, the most sensitive documents they have are owned by themselves.
I wouldn't sell the equipment. If you have a colo you already do business with and a lot of extra server hardware, try subleasing it to someone you think might need some extra server capacity.
Sure, it's a lot of work to find customers, but with that much hardware sitting around you have a lot to offer.
Windows Explorer is linked to mshtml.dll, meaning Windows itself does not function properly without the IE libraries being installed. Even going so far as to delete iexplore.exe wouldn't prevent the security risk that IE poses.
If there were sufficient motivation, I'm assuming the OSS developers could come up with a replacement for mshtml.dll(creating a derivative work potentially, against the terms of the EULA). That motivation doesn't exist and the legality of doing so is questionable at best.
Like it or not, even more basic functions of the operating system such as MMC and the control panel rely on the IE HTML renderer. Just in case you're not sure, Windows without MMC or a control panel leave the OS largely unconfigurable unless you're as good at Windows CLI as you are at Linux CLI.
This really is about 'flaws', not some quest to eliminate IE as a choice for users. IE is a security risk, plain and simple. The fact that IE and Windows are inseparable merely exemplifies the fact that no matter how locked down your server is, if you try to administer it on GUI tools, you open yourself to a plethora of exploits.
I disagree strongly. Processor speed is still very important - just not for the average consumer. For quite some time now, the majority of consumer applications have been IO and/or GPU bound.
There is no such thing as a 'fastest useful processor' for some people, primarily in research and academia.
MS has to at least pretend their interested in building large revenue streams beyond the OS and office productivity sectors. By spending large amounts of money on R&D, they can tell the world "Hey look we're investing in our future!" while simultaneously throwing chairs, playing the standards committee coercion game and bending consumers over a barrel to keep them on the upgrade treadmill.
Wrong again. Many applications that use MSHTML.dll to render HTML suffer from the same local security exploits as IE. This means that even if you just don't use IE, your not protected from many flaws in IE. Sadly, removing MSHTML.dll simply breaks those applications that rely on it meaning most users have no choice but to leave IE installed.
I agree, this is a great example. As someone who has worked in manufacturing before, I can say without a doubt most "fire drills" aren't much of a drill since they're planned in advance and staff are notified prior.
The issue is that during production, staff can't just walk away from their machines without causing tremendous costs. To avoid those costs, management sees fit to notify staff prior to shutdown gracefully which kind of defeats the purpose of a drill.
The effect is that most manufacturers do not know the true ability of their staff to exit under a true emergency.
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Yes, my ISP(Qwest DSL) has foisted upon me MSN Live as my "ISP" also. I can't see how they can be my ISP given the only thing they provide is email access.
I guess since they support SASL I should just be happy, since I use their servers to route my mail server's SMTP traffic through :)
It's interesting how AOL's mass mailing of discs and later Cd's made them a gigantic ISP overnight and within ten years their reliance on dialup almost relegated them entirely to a rural customer base.
I had dialup until like '96 when I got @home cable internet(later bought by AT&T, and then Comcast). Funny thing is, I still miss BBS's. Nothing brings back memories of the old days like listening to a fax machine handshake as I daydream of MUDs.
Well, IE5 came over 2 years after NN4 so its not exactly comparing apples to apples.
You're correct that in 1997 neither IE4 nor NN4 supported W3C standards correctly. It's not a bad time to mention that although NN4 gave us BLINK, IE4 brought JScript, Active Script, Active Desktop, ActiveX, and much much more in incompatibility.
At that point in time, NN4 has over 3 times the popularity and many felt at the time that it was a superior program. IE4 was also the first MS browser to have tie-ins with the OS and in fact was the first that may(or may not) be able to be uninstalled without borking the system. Within 2 years, NN was almost gone due to IE bundling with Win 95/98/98SE and no amount of polish or standards compliance was going to keep them competitive.
As a side note, MS may have given us XmlHttpRequest but AJAX wasn't coined until much later because Javascript/DOM standardization wasn't at a point yet where developers could sanely utilize the power of AJAX.
After they crushed Netscape? Maybe you're too young to remember, but Netscape 4 was truly far superior to anything Microsoft had developed up to that point.
All technical factors considered, IE should have died a slow death, not Netscape. The only reason it continued to dominate was due to bundling with Windows, which attained monopoly status illegally. This is all well documented in the DOJ antitrust suit.
Are you being intentionally dense? The reason for this situation is that the EC has determined that Microsoft gained it's monopoly market position illegally. The EC is doing now what the FTC should have done 10 years ago. It's unconscionable that the US has let Microsoft continue their extend/extinguish routine for so long, causing great harm to computing users worldwide.
As an aside, you have to realize also that Microsoft does have an alternative choice here. They can simply choose to cease doing business directly in EU member countries. MS products would remain available through resellers until the EU starts action against them. I wouldn't be surprised if MS chose this route. Given the damaged state of our economy, we need the EU more than they need they need us and the US doesn't have a lot to bargain with in pressuring the EU to drop the matter.
Good question, I'm not sure. Probably could be definitely answered by the real time kernel developers, but I don't know of anything published saying yay or nay.
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Maybe you haven't noticed, but quantum mechanics seems to indicate there is not always one outcome for one set of conditions. This works on the macro scale, but not necessarily always on the subatomic level.
Pretty much. If it weren't for shitty VB script features in Office, many would have ditched it long ago.
Well the problem here is that we couldn't start with HTML 4 or CSS.
HTML has a lot of backwards compatibility, which is sometimes its own Achilles heel. I believe this is the same thing with Windows and I really hope software vendors join the club and start producing more Vista compatible software.
This has been my experience as well. At my former company, we had our own somewhat expensive IT and support crew but everything worked really well. Someone decided to save money by switching to Unisys for help desk support.
Direct support costs went down, but whatever they saved on IT staff we lost 100 times over on lost productivity from help desk tickets being 'resolved' before actual issues and it was a aweful. I have since left the company, but up to the day I left management was still happy using Unisys, which is bizarrely illogical given the higher costs and reduced productivity.
C'est la vie I suppose. Still irks me though how much upper managers get paid for such poor ideas.
I'm quite convinced someone sufficiently motivated could replicate the Eclipse IDE in ASCII format and functionality in emacs.
Anyone?
Bueller?
For precisely this reason, I would never ever switch to a remote IDE hosted by another company.
A possibly debatable secondary reason is just that I don't want anyone else having access to my code that is potentially going to be released as closed source. Everyone knows IT guys are generally snoopy when they're bored, and sometimes my comments contain profanities directed towards my users.
I think a major source of the decline in parenting is that they don't get involved in education and instead choose to let the media(television, magazines and music) be the parents.
I'm not saying those are all strictly bad influences, but they must be taken in moderation as all things in life. When kids watch +4 hours of TV per day on average, you know something is just wrong.
I used to do oral contracts in business all the time. We never had to go to court with it, because some of our terms were in writing but things like pricing were done orally.
YMMV, some states set limits or exclusions on what can be done orally. For instance, in most states you can't sell a car or real property via oral contract.
I don't necessarily think UAC is a bad idea, just badly implemented by MS. The UAC prompt doesn't display enough information for the user to make an informed decision. A good example is "File Operation". It's quite vague. Do I allow it? What exactly is the program trying to do?
Gnome's privilege escalation isn't much more informative either.
It's a good concept but obviously needs further development.
The OS controls the USB host controller which sets maximum current per port. Assuming the drivers are available for your host controller, Windows and Linux can both direct the host controller to operate within spec.
Unidentified USB devices are limited to a lower current than identified devices. This was done to prevent 'dumb' electronic devices from sinking too much current and breaking the output drivers on the host controller.
Don't be so shortsighted. The issue isn't you losing your files. It is that others can obtain your files.
Just because malware doesn't have root privileges doesn't mean it isn't capable of stealing valuable information from you.
Interesting article. Cliff notes for those who don't read articles: KDE & Gnome desktop icons can contain malicious commands.
The common defense that "well at least linux malware can't get root privileges" isn't much of a defense. For many users, the most sensitive documents they have are owned by themselves.
I wouldn't sell the equipment. If you have a colo you already do business with and a lot of extra server hardware, try subleasing it to someone you think might need some extra server capacity.
Sure, it's a lot of work to find customers, but with that much hardware sitting around you have a lot to offer.
Are you just being intentionally dense?
Windows Explorer is linked to mshtml.dll, meaning Windows itself does not function properly without the IE libraries being installed. Even going so far as to delete iexplore.exe wouldn't prevent the security risk that IE poses.
If there were sufficient motivation, I'm assuming the OSS developers could come up with a replacement for mshtml.dll(creating a derivative work potentially, against the terms of the EULA). That motivation doesn't exist and the legality of doing so is questionable at best.
Like it or not, even more basic functions of the operating system such as MMC and the control panel rely on the IE HTML renderer. Just in case you're not sure, Windows without MMC or a control panel leave the OS largely unconfigurable unless you're as good at Windows CLI as you are at Linux CLI.
This really is about 'flaws', not some quest to eliminate IE as a choice for users. IE is a security risk, plain and simple. The fact that IE and Windows are inseparable merely exemplifies the fact that no matter how locked down your server is, if you try to administer it on GUI tools, you open yourself to a plethora of exploits.
I disagree strongly. Processor speed is still very important - just not for the average consumer. For quite some time now, the majority of consumer applications have been IO and/or GPU bound.
There is no such thing as a 'fastest useful processor' for some people, primarily in research and academia.
MS has to at least pretend their interested in building large revenue streams beyond the OS and office productivity sectors. By spending large amounts of money on R&D, they can tell the world "Hey look we're investing in our future!" while simultaneously throwing chairs, playing the standards committee coercion game and bending consumers over a barrel to keep them on the upgrade treadmill.
Wrong again. Many applications that use MSHTML.dll to render HTML suffer from the same local security exploits as IE. This means that even if you just don't use IE, your not protected from many flaws in IE. Sadly, removing MSHTML.dll simply breaks those applications that rely on it meaning most users have no choice but to leave IE installed.
I agree, this is a great example. As someone who has worked in manufacturing before, I can say without a doubt most "fire drills" aren't much of a drill since they're planned in advance and staff are notified prior.
The issue is that during production, staff can't just walk away from their machines without causing tremendous costs. To avoid those costs, management sees fit to notify staff prior to shutdown gracefully which kind of defeats the purpose of a drill.
The effect is that most manufacturers do not know the true ability of their staff to exit under a true emergency.