I like Purity and Archetype as browser names. But Humdinger would be funny, as it's one of those words that sounds vaguely pornographic but isn't. Paragon would also be good. In fact, I think I might change my browser to report itself as Paragon.
Becuase if the government spends enough money to find out what happened, Congress can then have justification for cutting off funding to NASA, effectively killing the space program. Since it is unlikely that the government will ever cut funding to the CIA or FBI or now the Department of Homeland Surve^H^H^H^Hecurity, they're not bothering finding out what happened.
I'd really like a RealVNC solution (or compatible) for Mac OS X. I'm using VNCThing to view RealVNC servers from my iMac, but I haven't found much satisfaction in serving VNC off my iMac yet.
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To me, the scariest part is the fact that most people in any sort of infulential position (C*O, Congresscritter, etc.) are more likely to respond to the fact that this report is printed on expensive/glossy paper and so therefore it must be true.
Worse yet is if the BSA presents it's findings over a complimentary lunch where they refuse to feed you until you've heard their propaganda, er, um, presentation.
If only I could print my proposals to use non-MS products in the latest issue of Dumbass Boss Monthly (this month's feature: Shiny Things As Business Strategy), I'd have no trouble. Graphs, documentation and logic seem to hold no weight.
Rikky and Pete is a fantastic movie, with some geek charm to it (Pete is a mechanical genius). Is it a film with a deep meaning and a strong moral message? Nope, it's just a great slice-of-life film. I dare you to find it anywhere though.
If you're doing 120 mph in a 70 zone, then you should be photographed, and ticketed.
No, you should be stopped, questioned as to why you are going so fast, and possibly arrested.
What if I'm doing 120 because I am not cognitively aware that I am going 120? Say, I'm drunk?
So, in my drunken stupor, I get photographed, and get a speeding ticket mailed to me three to six weeks later. But that night, after the picture was taken, I also mowed down 4 pedestrians and fled the scene. Now, is it possible that someone down at traffic control will realize it's the same car? Sure, possibly.
Nice consolation for the families of the 4 dead.
Traffic cameras are a bad idea. They don't stop someone from breaking the law, they just collect fees for the government. It also seems to shift the burden of proof: the fact that your car was photographed means it was you, and now you have to take the time to prove it wasn't, rather than the other way around.
Scenario: bad mailing address attached to the license on the car. If this supposed driver had a hope of never being pulled over by a person, he could just keep on driving, no insurance, no worries about a revoked license. With cameras "making the bust," all he has to do is be hard for the cameras to locate for prosecution. Just think of the number of violations he'd have to accumulate before it became serious enough to warrant a concerted search.
Scenario: your white minivan's license plate is swapped with another white minivan's plate. Someone else does the speeding, you get the ticket, and the hassle of proving it's not your car. Think those cameras can resolve VIN numbers?
Aside from both of you being a little hopeful that anyone with a C and an O in their title would even read these missives from their proles . . .
I'd send them a list of both, along with a list of patch availability time for each hole that was patched, and a list of holes that still remain unpatched.
Frankly, the thing that steams my giblets the most about IIS is the unalterable GMT time-stamping on the W3C log format coupled with the inability to customize the other available (non-GMT stamping) log formats.
By this argument, the universities should all be using Apple's, on indeed anyone *except* MS', products, since, broadly, innovations happen outside Redmond, then get rolled in to the next big MS product rollout.
If you want to know what MS will do 5 years from now (the average time it takes a student to get a Bachelor's), look at what Apple is doing today.
...be prepared for the work force.
Maybe at DeVry. Or ITT. Or some other shallow, task-oriented place of "learning." University degrees should indicate some ability to think for one's self, to reason.
I can see that you think you are right, and are therefore unwilling to admit to another point of information. Rather like the religious fanatics you used as an example.
However, my support is contingent on also making it a federal crime to allow anyone under 18, escorted or otherwise, into any R rated film.
So I can get some QUIET.
Laugh, it's funny. I would never, ever support anything this inane. If you keep these things locked away, when the child finally sees one of these games, he or she will go totally Scanners.
Parents: you're supposed to be preparing your kids to deal with the graphic nature of life, not shielding them from it.
I'd still like some quiet in movie theaters, though.
if you vote from home, a politician could be standing right behind you . . . with a $50 bill and defeat the integrity of the electoral process.
I cut the password part, but what stops them from already doing this with mail-in ballots? I mail mine in for every election. Frankly, my vote isn't for sale for $50, which is what's stopping that in my house. $50,000? That's another story. Besides, a politician would have to trust the person he's giving that $50 to, otherwise said voter could just turn around and screw the politician with fraud charges after he's elected. Which I would probably do even if the politician gave me $50,000,000. But then, I've been double-crossed by politicians all my life. Turn-about is fair play.
Well, (a) casual users aren't the problem. And (b) studies have shown that whether or not drugs are legal, you'll have similar numbers of addicts. An addict is an addict. AA's 12 step program is just a replacement addiction, albiet a safer and more productive one. Besides, drug legislation has historically been used for property seizures for the government, rather than as any kind of real deterrent to drug usage, going back at least to the seizures of opium dens in San Fransisco in the 1800's.
Most crimes committed in the name of drugs are to keep profitable turf and eliminate competition. Make no mistake, drugs are illegal in this country because it keeps wallets fat. Think what the Mafia would be if we never had the 18th Amendment.
The case that someone else has cracked for you already and all you have to do is show up with a badge? They caught this guy with $10,000 in fraudulent checks and lord knows how many other victims. Just how big is large enough?
The company clearly doesn't want to properly support Macs. Whatever spin the marketroids want to put on it, it comes down to Quark not giving a rat's ass about Mac support. I'm pure Mac OS X now (aside from one little legacy program that I don't think is even made any more - but it's not a heavy-duty program so emulation is fine), and it's great. Adobe has committed, M$, for %$@&'s sake, has committed. Quark simply doesn't want Mac business any longer.
Leave them.
You let your parents/relative/hot sister continue to use Windows. It's your fault they're still on it, computer nerd!
Don't want to get asked? Put an older Mac in their house. Or Linux. Or something!
There's a certain threshold, you see. If they want to play games enough, or they have to use it to run a business, they'll figure it out eventually and stop asking. But if we're talking about persons who want e-mail and web-browsing and letters to Auntie Mildred (yes, all aunts are named Mildred), they don't care what operating system it is, as long as it gets the job done properly. Trust me, Dad doesn't want to have to call you about a computer problem, because he doesn't want to have to either (a) deal with your political/religious issues on computing or (b) feel like a moron because he simply can't understand when you're trying to tell him how to fix it himself next time. No, he doesn't. I'm not bashing on your Dad, he just doesn't understand, just like you don't understand the sexual appeal of your mother. If he understood, the calls would have stopped by now.
Your near-by University has something called surplus, and often times they sell it. You can probably set the latter group of relatives ("Make it work, my boy") up for under $100. And that includes the printer. Earthlink 'em, or NetZero/Juno it up. Make it a gift for a year.
If it's a company-provided computer, and they can't change it, guess what? Their company can drop by on Christmas and fix it. My Uncle is still mad about that Christmas.
It's a simple situation: if you want the problem to go away, fix it! Know what the happiest part is? Lack of software suddenly becomes your best ally, because they can't load a metric ton of crap, only a long hundredweight!
Do you want a car that needs to be in the shop once a month? Or once a year? Your mechanic wants you to have one that's in once a month. It keeps him in business.
I've got the once a year variety, and I'm pretty pleased with it. Next analogy, please . . .
I have an iMac at home, Solaris and Linux at work. The only thing I've had to use Windows for in the past 18 months is updating the firmware on my Linksys router (did it from Virtual PC and W95). I think any future ones can be done from my browser now.
How did I get out from under? Well, job-wise, I work as a technical instructor for a company that teaches Solaris, HP-UX and Java. Occasionally, I'll have to teach an onsite where they are using NT or 98 or something (I teach Java), but for the most part, I'm on Solaris. We have company laptops which are supposed to be NT/2000. Mine's Linux. Sorry, not using my laptop as a server at an onsite class for Java under Windows. I don't care what flavor of Windows it is, I'm standing in front of students who evaluate my performance. I'm not using anything that may crash in the middle of something important. So it's a credibility issue for me. Maybe if Microsoft supported Java better (at all), I'd use NT.
Other than that? My choice. I don't have to use Windows for anything. There are alternatives. Can I play games on my iMac? Hell yeah. The top games are all available: The Sims, Warcraft III, Harry Potter (it's number 6 or soemthing like that), I can play them all. Sure, I just got Jedi Knight II, what, 8 months after the PC release? So what? I was playing Sims, Warcraft, Alice and Diablo for all that time. How many games do you need? More than that? Buy a console, they've got even more games than Windows. Can I run business software? Certainly. Word, Excel, whatever. Server applications? Check. Apache, SSH, name a service. Java? Roger that, too. Some Java gurus think Apple's JVM is one of the best ever. There isn't anything that I can do on Windows that I can't do on something else. Well, okay, VB. Why would I want to do VB, anyway? I don't program for Windows only.
Sure, there's loads more software for PCs. The top sellers are Windows licences, virus scanning software and utilities packages to fix your system. Joy!
I read a lot of stuff from both sides: Windows is better for business, Linux is better for stability. OS X is equal to both in both arenas (unfortunately, we're sometimes equal to Linux in driver support and Windows in eye candy that can bog down the system as well, but we're getting better - hey, our current OS is, what, coming up on 2, 3 years old?). Hardware's more expensive, maybe it's not worth the cost from the parts perspective, but the whole . . . ah, so much greater than the sum.
Plus, we get ants in our laptops. And sometimes they catch fire. Clearly, we think they are pants (which means we may be lying).
If your company forces Windows on you, erase the hard drive and install Linux if you can. Or even if you can't. Just do something. Take a stand! Have some reasons, and try to have some way to do everything they want you to do with Windows. It's not that hard for a lot of people. Take away the IT department's power. You might even be amazed at how much more work you can get done when you can ignore most of their e-mails and don't have to reboot as much. REVOLT! STEAL THIS OS!
The only thing keeping most people on Windows is plain laziness. Plain laziness.
The flat panel iMacs, rather than the D-shaped cord, use a, erm, three-bubble shaped one. Kinda like three-fifths of the olympic logo, if that helps describe it. I don't think they are proprietary, as the older Compaq Armada laptops had the same kind of cord (the power supply was internal). Still, I haven't tried an Armada cord with my iMac yet: the cord is beige, it would ruin the decor.
Anyone else seen these commercials? They are being put on by the Ad Council, presumably praising our freedoms and so on. One has a group of people worshipping in a basement and then sneaking off home. The commercial then poses the question, "What if America wasn't America?"
Another has a person trying to check a book out from the library. He is told that that particular book is no longer available. When he goes to leave, he is apprehended by two suits.
So, who is putting these commercials on television anyway? Do they have any idea that their commercials are coming to pass? Clearly, we're approaching the point where it's not a "what if" any more.
Their tagline: "Freedom. Appreciate it. Cherish it. Protect it."
They're taking away our first amendment rights. Maybe it's time to exercise our second amendment ones.
Over the course of centuries, the spelling of many words has changed from more complex to less complex. A lot of the spellings for many common words have dropped letters, or re-arranged them to appear more phonetic. Thru may not be a proper spelling for through today, but it may be in the future. Color has dropped a u in the more recent, Americanized English from the (more proper?) British spelling.
Words once in common parlance are no longer employed, such as thee and thou. Whence, hither, yon, also not generally used.
Language and spelling evolve.
This is not to say that I would expect a teacher to be tolerant of a student using r for are. My teachers wanted me to spell theater, not theatre. I can also do without some kind of Orwellian newspeak, where the words are so over-simplified as to lose any kind of nuance. So, the students are wrong in this time and place. But they might be right in the future.
IANAL(inguist), but I do find the history of English interesting.
So, a company that I do not fully trust when it comes to acurate, honest security reporting purchased a forum (company?) which I do trust on those same matters.
I don't really know what to say. It'd be like Ford buying Volvo or something. Oh, wait . . .
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I like Purity and Archetype as browser names. But Humdinger would be funny, as it's one of those words that sounds vaguely pornographic but isn't. Paragon would also be good. In fact, I think I might change my browser to report itself as Paragon.
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Worse yet is if the BSA presents it's findings over a complimentary lunch where they refuse to feed you until you've heard their propaganda, er, um, presentation.
If only I could print my proposals to use non-MS products in the latest issue of Dumbass Boss Monthly (this month's feature: Shiny Things As Business Strategy), I'd have no trouble. Graphs, documentation and logic seem to hold no weight.
Rikky and Pete is a fantastic movie, with some geek charm to it (Pete is a mechanical genius). Is it a film with a deep meaning and a strong moral message? Nope, it's just a great slice-of-life film. I dare you to find it anywhere though.
No, you should be stopped, questioned as to why you are going so fast, and possibly arrested.
What if I'm doing 120 because I am not cognitively aware that I am going 120? Say, I'm drunk?
So, in my drunken stupor, I get photographed, and get a speeding ticket mailed to me three to six weeks later. But that night, after the picture was taken, I also mowed down 4 pedestrians and fled the scene. Now, is it possible that someone down at traffic control will realize it's the same car? Sure, possibly.
Nice consolation for the families of the 4 dead.
Traffic cameras are a bad idea. They don't stop someone from breaking the law, they just collect fees for the government. It also seems to shift the burden of proof: the fact that your car was photographed means it was you, and now you have to take the time to prove it wasn't, rather than the other way around.
Scenario: bad mailing address attached to the license on the car. If this supposed driver had a hope of never being pulled over by a person, he could just keep on driving, no insurance, no worries about a revoked license. With cameras "making the bust," all he has to do is be hard for the cameras to locate for prosecution. Just think of the number of violations he'd have to accumulate before it became serious enough to warrant a concerted search.
Scenario: your white minivan's license plate is swapped with another white minivan's plate. Someone else does the speeding, you get the ticket, and the hassle of proving it's not your car. Think those cameras can resolve VIN numbers?
Anyway, nevermind the arguments against cameras. As long as they are keeping our streets safer, right?
Frankly, if you don't trust your kid to walk his or herself to school, why are you trusting him or her not to tamper with the tracking device?
Parenting is a hand-on job, not a telecommuting one.
I'd send them a list of both, along with a list of patch availability time for each hole that was patched, and a list of holes that still remain unpatched.
Frankly, the thing that steams my giblets the most about IIS is the unalterable GMT time-stamping on the W3C log format coupled with the inability to customize the other available (non-GMT stamping) log formats.
Who do you think you are? Microsoft?
Because the operating system's playing field is level (no hidden APIs)?
Because removing Konq doesn't crap the rest of the system?
Because I don't have to pay to have my app included in Red Hat (or do I?)?
Because Mandrake doesn't own all the programs that are installed?
I can only presume you are either being willfully ignorant or funny.
If you want to know what MS will do 5 years from now (the average time it takes a student to get a Bachelor's), look at what Apple is doing today.
Maybe at DeVry. Or ITT. Or some other shallow, task-oriented place of "learning." University degrees should indicate some ability to think for one's self, to reason.
I can see that you think you are right, and are therefore unwilling to admit to another point of information. Rather like the religious fanatics you used as an example.
So I can get some QUIET.
Laugh, it's funny. I would never, ever support anything this inane. If you keep these things locked away, when the child finally sees one of these games, he or she will go totally Scanners. Parents: you're supposed to be preparing your kids to deal with the graphic nature of life, not shielding them from it.
I'd still like some quiet in movie theaters, though.
I cut the password part, but what stops them from already doing this with mail-in ballots? I mail mine in for every election. Frankly, my vote isn't for sale for $50, which is what's stopping that in my house. $50,000? That's another story. Besides, a politician would have to trust the person he's giving that $50 to, otherwise said voter could just turn around and screw the politician with fraud charges after he's elected. Which I would probably do even if the politician gave me $50,000,000. But then, I've been double-crossed by politicians all my life. Turn-about is fair play.
Most crimes committed in the name of drugs are to keep profitable turf and eliminate competition. Make no mistake, drugs are illegal in this country because it keeps wallets fat. Think what the Mafia would be if we never had the 18th Amendment.
The case that someone else has cracked for you already and all you have to do is show up with a badge? They caught this guy with $10,000 in fraudulent checks and lord knows how many other victims. Just how big is large enough?
The company clearly doesn't want to properly support Macs. Whatever spin the marketroids want to put on it, it comes down to Quark not giving a rat's ass about Mac support. I'm pure Mac OS X now (aside from one little legacy program that I don't think is even made any more - but it's not a heavy-duty program so emulation is fine), and it's great. Adobe has committed, M$, for %$@&'s sake, has committed. Quark simply doesn't want Mac business any longer. Leave them.
Don't want to get asked? Put an older Mac in their house. Or Linux. Or something!
There's a certain threshold, you see. If they want to play games enough, or they have to use it to run a business, they'll figure it out eventually and stop asking. But if we're talking about persons who want e-mail and web-browsing and letters to Auntie Mildred (yes, all aunts are named Mildred), they don't care what operating system it is, as long as it gets the job done properly. Trust me, Dad doesn't want to have to call you about a computer problem, because he doesn't want to have to either (a) deal with your political/religious issues on computing or (b) feel like a moron because he simply can't understand when you're trying to tell him how to fix it himself next time. No, he doesn't. I'm not bashing on your Dad, he just doesn't understand, just like you don't understand the sexual appeal of your mother. If he understood, the calls would have stopped by now.
Your near-by University has something called surplus, and often times they sell it. You can probably set the latter group of relatives ("Make it work, my boy") up for under $100. And that includes the printer. Earthlink 'em, or NetZero/Juno it up. Make it a gift for a year.
If it's a company-provided computer, and they can't change it, guess what? Their company can drop by on Christmas and fix it. My Uncle is still mad about that Christmas.
It's a simple situation: if you want the problem to go away, fix it! Know what the happiest part is? Lack of software suddenly becomes your best ally, because they can't load a metric ton of crap, only a long hundredweight!
You can have my Mac when you pry the mouse from my cold dead hand, Corporate America!
I've got the once a year variety, and I'm pretty pleased with it. Next analogy, please . . .
How did I get out from under? Well, job-wise, I work as a technical instructor for a company that teaches Solaris, HP-UX and Java. Occasionally, I'll have to teach an onsite where they are using NT or 98 or something (I teach Java), but for the most part, I'm on Solaris. We have company laptops which are supposed to be NT/2000. Mine's Linux. Sorry, not using my laptop as a server at an onsite class for Java under Windows. I don't care what flavor of Windows it is, I'm standing in front of students who evaluate my performance. I'm not using anything that may crash in the middle of something important. So it's a credibility issue for me. Maybe if Microsoft supported Java better (at all), I'd use NT.
Other than that? My choice. I don't have to use Windows for anything. There are alternatives. Can I play games on my iMac? Hell yeah. The top games are all available: The Sims, Warcraft III, Harry Potter (it's number 6 or soemthing like that), I can play them all. Sure, I just got Jedi Knight II, what, 8 months after the PC release? So what? I was playing Sims, Warcraft, Alice and Diablo for all that time. How many games do you need? More than that? Buy a console, they've got even more games than Windows. Can I run business software? Certainly. Word, Excel, whatever. Server applications? Check. Apache, SSH, name a service. Java? Roger that, too. Some Java gurus think Apple's JVM is one of the best ever. There isn't anything that I can do on Windows that I can't do on something else. Well, okay, VB. Why would I want to do VB, anyway? I don't program for Windows only.
Sure, there's loads more software for PCs. The top sellers are Windows licences, virus scanning software and utilities packages to fix your system. Joy!
I read a lot of stuff from both sides: Windows is better for business, Linux is better for stability. OS X is equal to both in both arenas (unfortunately, we're sometimes equal to Linux in driver support and Windows in eye candy that can bog down the system as well, but we're getting better - hey, our current OS is, what, coming up on 2, 3 years old?). Hardware's more expensive, maybe it's not worth the cost from the parts perspective, but the whole . . . ah, so much greater than the sum.
Plus, we get ants in our laptops. And sometimes they catch fire. Clearly, we think they are pants (which means we may be lying).
If your company forces Windows on you, erase the hard drive and install Linux if you can. Or even if you can't. Just do something. Take a stand! Have some reasons, and try to have some way to do everything they want you to do with Windows. It's not that hard for a lot of people. Take away the IT department's power. You might even be amazed at how much more work you can get done when you can ignore most of their e-mails and don't have to reboot as much. REVOLT! STEAL THIS OS!
The only thing keeping most people on Windows is plain laziness. Plain laziness.
The flat panel iMacs, rather than the D-shaped cord, use a, erm, three-bubble shaped one. Kinda like three-fifths of the olympic logo, if that helps describe it. I don't think they are proprietary, as the older Compaq Armada laptops had the same kind of cord (the power supply was internal). Still, I haven't tried an Armada cord with my iMac yet: the cord is beige, it would ruin the decor.
Another has a person trying to check a book out from the library. He is told that that particular book is no longer available. When he goes to leave, he is apprehended by two suits.
So, who is putting these commercials on television anyway? Do they have any idea that their commercials are coming to pass? Clearly, we're approaching the point where it's not a "what if" any more.
Their tagline: "Freedom. Appreciate it. Cherish it. Protect it."
They're taking away our first amendment rights. Maybe it's time to exercise our second amendment ones.
Words once in common parlance are no longer employed, such as thee and thou. Whence, hither, yon, also not generally used.
Language and spelling evolve.
This is not to say that I would expect a teacher to be tolerant of a student using r for are. My teachers wanted me to spell theater, not theatre. I can also do without some kind of Orwellian newspeak, where the words are so over-simplified as to lose any kind of nuance. So, the students are wrong in this time and place. But they might be right in the future.
IANAL(inguist), but I do find the history of English interesting.
However, you're still prettly likely to survive the crash. You'll just crash more often.
I don't really know what to say. It'd be like Ford buying Volvo or something. Oh, wait . . .