Well, This works to our advantage in my opinion. While losing IE looks bad on the surface (and perhaps it is) this MIGHT actually work to the advantage of the opensource community and/or for third party browsers. Convinve people that mac support is IMPORTANT and NECESSARY. If possible, make sure that when offering mac support that you also try to include linux and other unixen like operating systems. The most important things are to a.) discourage the use of internet-explorer only features or windows only featurs, especially those built in to dotNET server. b.) port your plugins to other operating systems, the reason? Those people will need to browse your website to! You don't want to alienate this large group of customers! c.) While historically I am against this, reccomend PARTICULAR browsers for your website, i.e. 'best viewed in Mozilla, download for free!' Remember when we used to have 'designed for Netscape' or 'designed for Internet Explorer'?
Remember, you don't HAVE to make your plugin opensource (although it would be nice) if you want it to run on an opensource operating system. In my opinion this is less of an open-source/closed source argument and more of a microsoft attempting to force out competition of all sorts argument. Microsoft has been planning to create new features for IIS servers which only work with Internet Explorer based browsers. Fight the use of these! Convince management it's a bad idea, tell them you are alienating a customer base (you are). Make sure your page looks the same in ALL browsers, and reccomend endorsing open-source bowsers (i.e. mozilla) or cross-platform browsers (i.e. opera) in the work place on ALL systems!
Use what Microsoft is rubbing in our face against them!
As cliche as this may sound, I think that a little ADD or ADHD is a good thing. I've never been diagnosed as having any of these (even though my high school was determined to), however I will often be thinking of multiple things at the same time. I've found that if you are able to have multiple ideas going through your head that it allows you to better grasp a concept. If you get sidetracked easily, try music, it helps keep one of your senses busy. In all honesty the widespread use of drugs to treat 'diseases' like this scares me. I'm not sure they really are diseases personally. People make such a big deal about 'Thinking Different' (think Apple campaigns) yet if they do people seem to want to put them down. (here comes the cliche) It's like 'the man's' way of trying to make us think HIS way. In all honesty though my biggest fear is that it can mess with the creative process. By making you to focus more on one issue you sort of surrender a lot of your freedom of thought it seems to me, which is just a bit creepy...
I guess one of my biggest reasons for this is I had a few friends over the years who were put on drugs which were meant to calm them down. Several of these people later had to be put on yet OTHER drugs to counter effect the acts of those drugs. Some of these people eventually took their lives.
Drugs can be a scary thing honestly. When you take them, you have to think to yourself... is this something that I REALLY need to do or that I REALLY want to do... and what side effects might it have later or more so what unintended consequences. Legal or illegal...
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Yahoo carries the weekly world news as part of their news service. If you go read the article you'll see links to 'All Weekly World News Stories' and similar credit if you go to the printable version (which doesn't seem to be working right in my browser). I will admit though, perhaps Yahoo needs to credit their sources a little bit more clearly, I know of people who have been confused before because of stories carried by the weekly world news on yahoo... Perhaps under the author they should put source: Weekly World News...
I don't know what MIT is using right now, but I know that a few years ago I noticed This Site at MIT as well as this security assesment. From my personal experience (not at MIT, but elsewhere) often in some situations you will be expected to leave your student ID at places such as the dorm front desk if you check out, say, a vaccum cleaner. (This of course gets really ironic since in my dorm we need the card to get from where the desk is back into the 'main dorm') I know from some playing with my card that our cards basically contain the following information. A question mark, our full name, social security numbre, followed by a sequencing number and then a semicolon. The system connects to the main campus server using a standard ip address (although it may have been moved to a VPN, I haven't played with it since freshman year) over tcpip. While I imagine network security is fairly lapse, I wouldn't worry too much, because beyond dorm access and meal plan I don't use my card that much. In all honesty, I'd be more afraid of somebody grabbing one of the many lists that different campus organizations are given (such as dining services) that have all of our personal information such as our social security number and are often sitting right next to the terminals at retail locations run by the campus or in drawers. There is a possibility of identity theft en masse if someone stole one of these. They are trying to improve the system however. When I first came to my university, everything was SSN based, but now they are moving to a 'net id' (based on your initials and a number) however some professors will still ask for your social, and the grade system as well as the card system are still based on the ssn, and I don't see them changing any time soon.
Personally, I think that if we have a 'tron' linux that somewhere they better make something named 'MCP'. Maybe root should be replaced with the loggin MCP.... heheheh...
Judging by the reccent weather in the Northeast will anybody actually have to make one of these? Although, maybe I could make a snowstorm around my office and then not have to come to work? hehehe...
While there is plenty of 'bad linux' press still you cannot deny that linux is starting to get better press, even in more mainstream news. I attend a windows-centric campus and this week our campus newspaper carried a story about linux that even gave mention of our local users group! Each little raindrop of good information about linux may seem insignificant, but if it sinks in, it begins to acquire volume, and before you know it you have people who have at least a basic knowledge of what linux is and might even reccomend it or be willing to try it!
on the monotony side I would definitely say that I am surprised the television version of Dilbert has not been mentioned. I have seen mentions of Pi and Pirates of Silicon Valley. I definitely would consider throwing Revolution OS into the fray. Maybe startup.com as well?
I guess that this makes Houston the first official SimCity now othat they have chosen to use the SimDesk software? Soon we will see aliens invading, fires, floods, and earthquakes all happening in the city of Houston as stressed city workers press the 'Disaster' button over and over...
Roland (the individual who submitted this story) summarizes the story in his own PERSONAL column, I mean 'weblog'.... Any takes on that? Perhaps somebody really really just wanted people to visit their site?
My family owns a baby grand and we love it.
On the subject of it surviving better, of course it does. I play the violin and have a fairly old insturment (over 200 years old) and it works great. Not one of those new cheap insturments they make in sweatshops in asia. Very nicely made insturment.
Just proves, that something that is made well will last a long time...
Why would Bell compete with itself on so many levels
Simple. If you can offer more options for people, and avoid cost overruns, then you have more chances of making profit. Also, they are testing the waters to see where new markets may be. They perhaps aren't competing with themselves as much as they are 'testing the waters' and experimenting with new marketing ideas.
"How you get people to pay for it is the big question," said Lawrence Surtees, an analyst at consultancy IDC Canada Ltd., adding that customers in the United States seem to think the service should be free.
Simple. Allow people to pay by purchasing prepaid cards or using their credit card and charging in block periods of 10 minutes. What's funny is that free wifi could possibly hurt the bell companies already failing payphone services even more if services that allow 'free long distance calls over the internet' become popular again. Although there is the bottleneck issue with wireless connections which would prevent that, plus the poor quality of such services usually (although I often get poor quality from many high-use area pay phones as well)
Backups would be great, except I am sure that if anything new had been done (which, when using financial software is very likely) then the backups would probably be pretty useless, as either they would be incredibly old (and not containing all the data needed), or unaccessible (because they had been made after the upgrade had happened)
Dead tree backups are a btch as well, and might take days/months/years depending on the amount of data one has to backup.
"We know that (an attack) could bring down the network of this country very quickly. Once you're on the network, it doesn't matter where you got in," I see something along the lines of the gov't national id here... perhaps a gov't supplied logon for every internet user? (think Microsoft Passport) something that might be required to get onto the internet? If nothing else, a more aggressive monitoring of the internet by the gov't and lots more restrictions and shutdowns, maybe things like the 'great firewall of china'. I hope that it doesn't come to this... but it's a scary and very possible thought...
Well, ok... They aren't giving tours apparently... (had only been skimming the text and looking at the neat pictures). I bet if they marketed it properly though and could get a large enough section approved for it that they could offer tours... sounds like a good project for somebody...
Sounds a bit like the Seattle Underground Tour (Link) (Link) (Link) which I took this summer out there. No, they won't tell you any dirty secrets about Microsoft. But for 7.00 it was worth it, and the tour guides were knowledgeable and funny. Apparently the original city planners for the city of Seattle were not all that smart... (if your interested about this part of Seattle there is a book called Sons of the Profits about it)
Anybody know if there is anything like this in some other big cities?
Ahhh... I understand now... I too don't always come across clearly;) I probably just misread. Same here though, about the not hearing about them. Funny that that company is even bothering holding on though I think, since BeOS is virtually dead from what I understand (waits for the flames from all the BE users)...
I think you misunderstood me. I was in no way saying it was going to be inconvenient to the terrorists. I was trying to say that it would be inconvenient to the citizens of New York, whose tax dollars help to pay for the transit systems, and that it would make a city like NYC tougher for people who receive such cancer treatments to get around in. Expenses and complications would not be a problem for a terrorists. We already know from reports that they have plenty of money. Having to take a taxi cab instead of the subway is not a problem;)
I think you may have misread the article. Actually, that's not how it works. See, FreeRadical has to purchase the rights to the code in order to open-sorce it. FreeRadical Software and Gobe are two seperate entities. FreeRadical wants to be the new owner of the Gobe product Gobe Productive (and they are the ones who want to open-source it) They do not currently have rights to the program/code needed to release the sourcecode under GPL/Open Source. Now yes, one would wonder why Gobe won't simply open-source the code (with the exception of the fact that perhaps they see the possibility of further revenue, like selling it to someone, perhaps someone who wants to open-source it like Free Radical Software) Now yes, if Gobe goes bankrupt or completely belly-up, or they decided to just completely abandon the project and thought that nobody would be interested, then yes, they might as well open-source the code if it became abandonware, In my opinion, that's probably what software companies should do. However, as long as they see some sort of viable market for the software, then they will not open-source it. Or perhaps I misread it?
They may choose not to use public transportation to avoid this inconvenience... I'm sorry. Getting aroud NYC and many big cities without public transit is expensive, and complicated. Also, I would think that perhaps one might be irritated if they can't use the PUBLIC transit system their tax dollars pay for. What will most likely happen in the end is that you will have a letter designation or something on a drivers license or on your state issued id/passport (everyone who flies knows that you have to have id). Yes, this could be defrauded, but anything can...
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This works to our advantage in my opinion. While losing IE looks bad on the surface (and perhaps it is) this MIGHT actually work to the advantage of the opensource community and/or for third party browsers. Convinve people that mac support is IMPORTANT and NECESSARY. If possible, make sure that when offering mac support that you also try to include linux and other unixen like operating systems.
The most important things are to a.) discourage the use of internet-explorer only features or windows only featurs, especially those built in to dotNET server. b.) port your plugins to other operating systems, the reason? Those people will need to browse your website to! You don't want to alienate this large group of customers! c.) While historically I am against this, reccomend PARTICULAR browsers for your website, i.e. 'best viewed in Mozilla, download for free!' Remember when we used to have 'designed for Netscape' or 'designed for Internet Explorer'?
Remember, you don't HAVE to make your plugin opensource (although it would be nice) if you want it to run on an opensource operating system. In my opinion this is less of an open-source/closed source argument and more of a microsoft attempting to force out competition of all sorts argument. Microsoft has been planning to create new features for IIS servers which only work with Internet Explorer based browsers. Fight the use of these! Convince management it's a bad idea, tell them you are alienating a customer base (you are). Make sure your page looks the same in ALL browsers, and reccomend endorsing open-source bowsers (i.e. mozilla) or cross-platform browsers (i.e. opera) in the work place on ALL systems!
Use what Microsoft is rubbing in our face against them!
As cliche as this may sound, I think that a little ADD or ADHD is a good thing. I've never been diagnosed as having any of these (even though my high school was determined to), however I will often be thinking of multiple things at the same time. I've found that if you are able to have multiple ideas going through your head that it allows you to better grasp a concept. If you get sidetracked easily, try music, it helps keep one of your senses busy. In all honesty the widespread use of drugs to treat 'diseases' like this scares me. I'm not sure they really are diseases personally. People make such a big deal about 'Thinking Different' (think Apple campaigns) yet if they do people seem to want to put them down. (here comes the cliche) It's like 'the man's' way of trying to make us think HIS way. In all honesty though my biggest fear is that it can mess with the creative process. By making you to focus more on one issue you sort of surrender a lot of your freedom of thought it seems to me, which is just a bit creepy...
I guess one of my biggest reasons for this is I had a few friends over the years who were put on drugs which were meant to calm them down. Several of these people later had to be put on yet OTHER drugs to counter effect the acts of those drugs. Some of these people eventually took their lives.
Drugs can be a scary thing honestly. When you take them, you have to think to yourself... is this something that I REALLY need to do or that I REALLY want to do... and what side effects might it have later or more so what unintended consequences.
Legal or illegal...
Google has a Cache of course....
Personally I've decided that I constitute constant spam as harassment in my Personal Spam Policy.
Yahoo carries the weekly world news as part of their news service. If you go read the article you'll see links to 'All Weekly World News Stories' and similar credit if you go to the printable version (which doesn't seem to be working right in my browser). I will admit though, perhaps Yahoo needs to credit their sources a little bit more clearly, I know of people who have been confused before because of stories carried by the weekly world news on yahoo... Perhaps under the author they should put source: Weekly World News...
Take it with a dump truck full of salt...
I don't know what MIT is using right now, but I know that a few years ago I noticed This Site at MIT as well as this security assesment. From my personal experience (not at MIT, but elsewhere) often in some situations you will be expected to leave your student ID at places such as the dorm front desk if you check out, say, a vaccum cleaner. (This of course gets really ironic since in my dorm we need the card to get from where the desk is back into the 'main dorm') I know from some playing with my card that our cards basically contain the following information. A question mark, our full name, social security numbre, followed by a sequencing number and then a semicolon. The system connects to the main campus server using a standard ip address (although it may have been moved to a VPN, I haven't played with it since freshman year) over tcpip. While I imagine network security is fairly lapse, I wouldn't worry too much, because beyond dorm access and meal plan I don't use my card that much. In all honesty, I'd be more afraid of somebody grabbing one of the many lists that different campus organizations are given (such as dining services) that have all of our personal information such as our social security number and are often sitting right next to the terminals at retail locations run by the campus or in drawers. There is a possibility of identity theft en masse if someone stole one of these. They are trying to improve the system however. When I first came to my university, everything was SSN based, but now they are moving to a 'net id' (based on your initials and a number) however some professors will still ask for your social, and the grade system as well as the card system are still based on the ssn, and I don't see them changing any time soon.
Personally, I think that if we have a 'tron' linux that somewhere they better make something named 'MCP'. Maybe root should be replaced with the loggin MCP.... heheheh...
Judging by the reccent weather in the Northeast will anybody actually have to make one of these?
Although, maybe I could make a snowstorm around my office and then not have to come to work?
hehehe...
While there is plenty of 'bad linux' press still you cannot deny that linux is starting to get better press, even in more mainstream news. I attend a windows-centric campus and this week our campus newspaper carried a story about linux that even gave mention of our local users group!
Each little raindrop of good information about linux may seem insignificant, but if it sinks in, it begins to acquire volume, and before you know it you have people who have at least a basic knowledge of what linux is and might even reccomend it or be willing to try it!
It's worth noting that, as of this story submission, the MicroBSD Web site is still up and running with no special notices.
That's ok, the slashdot effect will eventually set in and then the site will no longer be up and running...
on the monotony side I would definitely say that I am surprised the television version of Dilbert has not been mentioned. I have seen mentions of Pi and Pirates of Silicon Valley. I definitely would consider throwing Revolution OS into the fray. Maybe startup.com as well?
I guess that this makes Houston the first official SimCity now othat they have chosen to use the SimDesk software? Soon we will see aliens invading, fires, floods, and earthquakes all happening in the city of Houston as stressed city workers press the 'Disaster' button over and over...
Roland (the individual who submitted this story) summarizes the story in his own PERSONAL column, I mean 'weblog'.... Any takes on that? Perhaps somebody really really just wanted people to visit their site?
My family owns a baby grand and we love it. On the subject of it surviving better, of course it does. I play the violin and have a fairly old insturment (over 200 years old) and it works great. Not one of those new cheap insturments they make in sweatshops in asia. Very nicely made insturment. Just proves, that something that is made well will last a long time...
Why would Bell compete with itself on so many levels
Simple. If you can offer more options for people, and avoid cost overruns, then you have more chances of making profit. Also, they are testing the waters to see where new markets may be. They perhaps aren't competing with themselves as much as they are 'testing the waters' and experimenting with new marketing ideas.
"How you get people to pay for it is the big question," said Lawrence Surtees, an analyst at consultancy IDC Canada Ltd., adding that customers in the United States seem to think the service should be free.
Simple. Allow people to pay by purchasing prepaid cards or using their credit card and charging in block periods of 10 minutes. What's funny is that free wifi could possibly hurt the bell companies already failing payphone services even more if services that allow 'free long distance calls over the internet' become popular again. Although there is the bottleneck issue with wireless connections which would prevent that, plus the poor quality of such services usually (although I often get poor quality from many high-use area pay phones as well)
Congrats Rob and Kathleen. Now we just have to await the announcement of your first kids. Maybe the first one should be named 'Linus' eh?
Seriously though, all joking aside, congratulations to you both and I wish you all the best of luck and happiness. Glad you two found each other.
Backups would be great, except I am sure that if anything new had been done (which, when using financial software is very likely) then the backups would probably be pretty useless, as either they would be incredibly old (and not containing all the data needed), or unaccessible (because they had been made after the upgrade had happened)
Dead tree backups are a btch as well, and might take days/months/years depending on the amount of data one has to backup.
"We know that (an attack) could bring down the network of this country very quickly. Once you're on the network, it doesn't matter where you got in,"
I see something along the lines of the gov't national id here... perhaps a gov't supplied logon for every internet user? (think Microsoft Passport) something that might be required to get onto the internet? If nothing else, a more aggressive monitoring of the internet by the gov't and lots more restrictions and shutdowns, maybe things like the 'great firewall of china'.
I hope that it doesn't come to this... but it's a scary and very possible thought...
Well, ok... They aren't giving tours apparently... (had only been skimming the text and looking at the neat pictures). I bet if they marketed it properly though and could get a large enough section approved for it that they could offer tours... sounds like a good project for somebody...
Sounds a bit like the Seattle Underground Tour (Link) (Link) (Link) which I took this summer out there. No, they won't tell you any dirty secrets about Microsoft. But for 7.00 it was worth it, and the tour guides were knowledgeable and funny. Apparently the original city planners for the city of Seattle were not all that smart... (if your interested about this part of Seattle there is a book called Sons of the Profits about it)
Anybody know if there is anything like this in some other big cities?
Ahhh... I understand now... I too don't always come across clearly ;) I probably just misread.
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Same here though, about the not hearing about them. Funny that that company is even bothering holding on though I think, since BeOS is virtually dead from what I understand (waits for the flames from all the BE users)...
I like the sig by the way
I think you misunderstood me. I was in no way saying it was going to be inconvenient to the terrorists. I was trying to say that it would be inconvenient to the citizens of New York, whose tax dollars help to pay for the transit systems, and that it would make a city like NYC tougher for people who receive such cancer treatments to get around in. Expenses and complications would not be a problem for a terrorists. We already know from reports that they have plenty of money. Having to take a taxi cab instead of the subway is not a problem ;)
I think you may have misread the article. Actually, that's not how it works. See, FreeRadical has to purchase the rights to the code in order to open-sorce it. FreeRadical Software and Gobe are two seperate entities. FreeRadical wants to be the new owner of the Gobe product Gobe Productive (and they are the ones who want to open-source it) They do not currently have rights to the program/code needed to release the sourcecode under GPL/Open Source. Now yes, one would wonder why Gobe won't simply open-source the code (with the exception of the fact that perhaps they see the possibility of further revenue, like selling it to someone, perhaps someone who wants to open-source it like Free Radical Software) Now yes, if Gobe goes bankrupt or completely belly-up, or they decided to just completely abandon the project and thought that nobody would be interested, then yes, they might as well open-source the code if it became abandonware, In my opinion, that's probably what software companies should do. However, as long as they see some sort of viable market for the software, then they will not open-source it.
Or perhaps I misread it?
They may choose not to use public transportation to avoid this inconvenience...
I'm sorry. Getting aroud NYC and many big cities without public transit is expensive, and complicated. Also, I would think that perhaps one might be irritated if they can't use the PUBLIC transit system their tax dollars pay for.
What will most likely happen in the end is that you will have a letter designation or something on a drivers license or on your state issued id/passport (everyone who flies knows that you have to have id). Yes, this could be defrauded, but anything can...