anyone who's been using windows for more than 2 weeks knows not to ever, ever update drivers via windows update. you only use drivers from the manufacturer website.
don't know why MS still insists on distributing broken drivers after years of complaints
the cellphone companies are the same telco's that provide the backbone of the internet. for years now they tried this by selling cell phones and providing all kinds of media services for them and AT&T is now making more money being a dumb bandwidth provider to the IPhone users. there was a/. story on this last month. and the rest of the telco's seem to be following AT&T's lead.
I think scott is just talking out of his anus and is afraid he is going to sell less servers to the telco's to provide all these media services.
in business it's usually not a good idea to get into too many things that aren't related because you lose focus and start being bad at everything. very few companies are like GE that can compete in many fields successfuly
Google apps are a joke for the enterprise software market as well as any public company due to SOX, HIPAA and other laws. this article actually has a point
with Yahoo Microsoft is paying $40 billion for a bunch of web designers, some media contracts and other intellectual talent that can flee at any time and MS will have to keep the business going. Customers can flee to any competitor with a minimum of problems.
with SAP Microsoft will gain a product lineup with large customers that pay for service, can't migrate easily and SAP's product will have synergies with Microsoft's other products where they can sell more products to a customer.
and Google seems to be coming to the end of the current growth cycle. revenue and profit growth seems to have peaked, expenses are going up, they seem to be expanding to new areas that don't really make any sense to the core business, the new expansions don't seem to be #1 in their areas and Google doesn't seem to want to make them #1, Google's big thing is the search algorithm and the infrastructure behind it and they don't really own any data they return and the owners of the data may one day start to demand royalties or block Google from it like say blocking their site from Google News, funny things happen in recessions when businesses start looking under every rock from cash, a lot of Google's customers are small businesses and have a real chance of going under in a recession
when i was in US Army Europe the intel guys would take the HD's out of their PC's when it was time to toss them and open them up and scrub the platters with brillo or some other wire brush to destroy the platter. The PC's would then get turned in via usuall channels.
For monitors if you wanted to process classified info it was a whole lot of paperwork because with the old CRT's you can read what is on the screen from like 3 blocks away just by the radiation they put out. ditto with Cat5. if you had a classified laptop you would have a short cat5 to a special encryption device, then cat5 out to the datacenter downstairs which had the same encryption device and then it would run out to the servers. NSA said you could read cat5 traffic from like 3 blocks away as well
and along the way MS bought into the nonsense of software as a service. Google Apps might be OK for some small business where it's too much to buy a few servers, but not for any place that needs backups and the reliability of always being up. locally installed apps always work. my Outlook offline folder always has the latest copy of my mailbox in case the network goes down. if someone deletes something, we have backups in 2 places. and no one wants to write up a spreadsheet with advertising on the side
Google caught the MS bug. it's trying to get into markets where it has no business
no, these are people who are wanted for a crime so they can face trial who refuse to turn themselves in and be tried in front of a jury. same thing as the wanted posters in the post office
SQL 2000 had MSDE, SQL 2005 it's Express Edition and i don't remember Oracle's name for it. Some desktop apps need a dumbed down database to write to and MS and Oracle let you distribute it for free as part of their app.
pretty sure most of these are just the lite versions of these databases on people's desktops or laptops while they are on broadband. a lot of devs also have dev versions of db servers. SQL 2005 Dev edition is basically the enterprise edition that lets you install it on XP and no limits other than a license
people are spoiled and every time something bad unexpected happens they can't accept it. result of living in one of the safest and affluent societies on earth.
so if something does happen the media jumps on it with all kinds of "investigative" reporting about how some insignificant clue had been dismissed or how some proposed law wasn't passed that could have prevented this. and they attack government agencies in the process along with congress getting involved with subpeonas and investigations. so the police to CYA just start to investigate idiotic things and bugging people
true, but all they have to do is pay someone $1 an hour in a third world country to surf youtube and find violations. they don't have to go through their archives and turn all of their movies and music over to google for automatic
copyright holders aren't going to provide decades of anything since it's up to google to keep copyrighted content off youtube. no reason why a copyright holder needs to go through this when someone else is infringing on their rights
passed it years ago without ever touching a router. next job i did some minor stuff on routers and switches and the commands our WAN people taught me weren't in the CCNA books i had. And neither was our networking gear as the CCNA books had the cheapo routers Cisco sells and not the higher level stuff
IT departments started dealing with blackberries when RIM came out with BES. Blackberry Enterprise Server to interface with MS Exchange. If Apple wants a piece of the business market they need a server to poll Exchange to forward email.
IMAP and POP3 are out since that's a security concern
because no one complains to the CEO of Pfizer when their Viagra doesn't work that well. if your PC crashes and you can't understand tech support and everyone knows Michael Dell's email, his mailbox is going to get pounded with thousands of help me messages and he may miss something important
Google can team up with microsoft and Yahoo as well as few other companies as well. not like AT&T and Verizon are friends. they are competitors with each other.
Reason Google is making noise is that they want someone else to spend tens of millions of $$$ and then leech of it like they do with everyone else. Google is good at what it does, but in the end they are masters of making money of other people's creations and investments.
place where i work looked at one of these things from another company. did the math and it's too slow even over gigabit for database and exchange server. OK for regular file storage, but not for heavy I/O needs
back around 7 years ago someone started googling for.htm to find any internet exposed terminal server websites and to see which ones weren't protected. easy way to root a box.
this only applies to the government performing the search. in this case it was the university and he was on their network which probably gave them the right via something he signed
and even if it was the government, there is probably case law that says a warrant can be given out after the fact if the government can prove they had proof or a compelling reason to gather this evidence at that time and getting a warrant would take too long, etc. it's like if a police officer arrests you without an arrest warrant because he saw you do something bad.
no webmail, no pop3 and no smtp relay unless you are on the golden list. not so much for information security, but for anti-virus purposes. we have antivirus on our exchange server and each PC that is updated hourly or daily. no one really knows the quality of the antivirus system of internet email or how often they update definitions
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for cheap tech books, bookpool.com is the way to go. way cheaper than amazon
anyone who's been using windows for more than 2 weeks knows not to ever, ever update drivers via windows update. you only use drivers from the manufacturer website.
don't know why MS still insists on distributing broken drivers after years of complaints
slashdot's precious standards are like trekkie's and star wars fans precious canon
the cellphone companies are the same telco's that provide the backbone of the internet. for years now they tried this by selling cell phones and providing all kinds of media services for them and AT&T is now making more money being a dumb bandwidth provider to the IPhone users. there was a /. story on this last month. and the rest of the telco's seem to be following AT&T's lead.
I think scott is just talking out of his anus and is afraid he is going to sell less servers to the telco's to provide all these media services.
in business it's usually not a good idea to get into too many things that aren't related because you lose focus and start being bad at everything. very few companies are like GE that can compete in many fields successfuly
does this mean the EU will ban the bundling of OS X with Apple computers forcing people to buy it separately?
Google apps are a joke for the enterprise software market as well as any public company due to SOX, HIPAA and other laws. this article actually has a point
with Yahoo Microsoft is paying $40 billion for a bunch of web designers, some media contracts and other intellectual talent that can flee at any time and MS will have to keep the business going. Customers can flee to any competitor with a minimum of problems.
with SAP Microsoft will gain a product lineup with large customers that pay for service, can't migrate easily and SAP's product will have synergies with Microsoft's other products where they can sell more products to a customer.
and Google seems to be coming to the end of the current growth cycle. revenue and profit growth seems to have peaked, expenses are going up, they seem to be expanding to new areas that don't really make any sense to the core business, the new expansions don't seem to be #1 in their areas and Google doesn't seem to want to make them #1, Google's big thing is the search algorithm and the infrastructure behind it and they don't really own any data they return and the owners of the data may one day start to demand royalties or block Google from it like say blocking their site from Google News, funny things happen in recessions when businesses start looking under every rock from cash, a lot of Google's customers are small businesses and have a real chance of going under in a recession
when i was in US Army Europe the intel guys would take the HD's out of their PC's when it was time to toss them and open them up and scrub the platters with brillo or some other wire brush to destroy the platter. The PC's would then get turned in via usuall channels.
For monitors if you wanted to process classified info it was a whole lot of paperwork because with the old CRT's you can read what is on the screen from like 3 blocks away just by the radiation they put out. ditto with Cat5. if you had a classified laptop you would have a short cat5 to a special encryption device, then cat5 out to the datacenter downstairs which had the same encryption device and then it would run out to the servers. NSA said you could read cat5 traffic from like 3 blocks away as well
i say we call the AG in every state to complain how Microsoft is disabling other apps with their updates
oh, wait
and along the way MS bought into the nonsense of software as a service. Google Apps might be OK for some small business where it's too much to buy a few servers, but not for any place that needs backups and the reliability of always being up. locally installed apps always work. my Outlook offline folder always has the latest copy of my mailbox in case the network goes down. if someone deletes something, we have backups in 2 places. and no one wants to write up a spreadsheet with advertising on the side
Google caught the MS bug. it's trying to get into markets where it has no business
libraries have these things called books that wikipedia doesn"t have
no, these are people who are wanted for a crime so they can face trial who refuse to turn themselves in and be tried in front of a jury. same thing as the wanted posters in the post office
SQL 2000 had MSDE, SQL 2005 it's Express Edition and i don't remember Oracle's name for it. Some desktop apps need a dumbed down database to write to and MS and Oracle let you distribute it for free as part of their app.
pretty sure most of these are just the lite versions of these databases on people's desktops or laptops while they are on broadband. a lot of devs also have dev versions of db servers. SQL 2005 Dev edition is basically the enterprise edition that lets you install it on XP and no limits other than a license
people are spoiled and every time something bad unexpected happens they can't accept it. result of living in one of the safest and affluent societies on earth.
so if something does happen the media jumps on it with all kinds of "investigative" reporting about how some insignificant clue had been dismissed or how some proposed law wasn't passed that could have prevented this. and they attack government agencies in the process along with congress getting involved with subpeonas and investigations. so the police to CYA just start to investigate idiotic things and bugging people
true, but all they have to do is pay someone $1 an hour in a third world country to surf youtube and find violations. they don't have to go through their archives and turn all of their movies and music over to google for automatic
copyright holders aren't going to provide decades of anything since it's up to google to keep copyrighted content off youtube. no reason why a copyright holder needs to go through this when someone else is infringing on their rights
passed it years ago without ever touching a router. next job i did some minor stuff on routers and switches and the commands our WAN people taught me weren't in the CCNA books i had. And neither was our networking gear as the CCNA books had the cheapo routers Cisco sells and not the higher level stuff
AMD and Intel have a cross licensing agreement. AMD can put the same thing on their chips as Intel does to support VMWare
IT departments started dealing with blackberries when RIM came out with BES. Blackberry Enterprise Server to interface with MS Exchange. If Apple wants a piece of the business market they need a server to poll Exchange to forward email.
IMAP and POP3 are out since that's a security concern
because no one complains to the CEO of Pfizer when their Viagra doesn't work that well. if your PC crashes and you can't understand tech support and everyone knows Michael Dell's email, his mailbox is going to get pounded with thousands of help me messages and he may miss something important
you'll notice when /. comes up .1 seconds faster
Google can team up with microsoft and Yahoo as well as few other companies as well. not like AT&T and Verizon are friends. they are competitors with each other.
Reason Google is making noise is that they want someone else to spend tens of millions of $$$ and then leech of it like they do with everyone else. Google is good at what it does, but in the end they are masters of making money of other people's creations and investments.
place where i work looked at one of these things from another company. did the math and it's too slow even over gigabit for database and exchange server. OK for regular file storage, but not for heavy I/O needs
back around 7 years ago someone started googling for .htm to find any internet exposed terminal server websites and to see which ones weren't protected. easy way to root a box.
this is basically the same thing
this only applies to the government performing the search. in this case it was the university and he was on their network which probably gave them the right via something he signed
and even if it was the government, there is probably case law that says a warrant can be given out after the fact if the government can prove they had proof or a compelling reason to gather this evidence at that time and getting a warrant would take too long, etc. it's like if a police officer arrests you without an arrest warrant because he saw you do something bad.
the constitution is not a suicide pact
no webmail, no pop3 and no smtp relay unless you are on the golden list. not so much for information security, but for anti-virus purposes. we have antivirus on our exchange server and each PC that is updated hourly or daily. no one really knows the quality of the antivirus system of internet email or how often they update definitions