Bluetooth and 802.11 are two entirely different things.
Bluetooth will allow all of your computer components to easily talk amongst themselves...without wires. It is also a way of doing neat things based on proximity. Car locks, anyone?
Bluetooth is also inherently more secure than 802.11. Even for people who are intelligent enough to enable 802.11's "security" features, that security is a MESS! You are better off running your wireless network in the clear, with DHCP assigned by Ethernet adaptor address and then using IPSec over the wire.
Picture putting Linux on one of your sales force's desk. They wouldn't know what to do
with it. Linux (or in my case FreeBSD) is the answer for people like US. All of the techies,
kernel hackers, coders and network admins that understand how to use Unix. You would
spend more money retraining your people, and higher support costs running around
answering questions, than you would spending to make your company M$ license
compliant.
That's a pile of crap. You put windowmaker on the machine, pre-configure it to have the apps they use on the dock. Better yet, use your own non-modifiable "dock"
The sales droid clicks on the software, which he should be trained to use, and uses it. We have decent browsers, and mail clients now (Pronto is quite good). Proprietary company databases can be done with a web interface...and most BIG companies still do that sort of stuff with 3090's and ES9000's....all you need is a friggin' 3270 terminal emulater (Yup...linux has those too!)
Support costs? What costs more...a windoze system that a sales droid can fuck with, or a linux system you can configure once, and the idiot can't mess up? Hell, have the thing boot from an NFS export even.
It's pretty bad when the Linux users themselves start spouting FUD...*sigh*.
More than 90 percent of people who commit suicide suffer
from clinical depression, according to studies by the American
Association of Suicidology in Washington, D.C.
And here I always thought it was likely for happy people to be inclined towards suicide.
man, does everyone have to dis marketing people? They serve an important part of any
business. If it wasn't for them marketing people who you think do nothing your company
would not have any customers and you wouldn't have a job. That said, most the good
looking chicks in any tech company are in marketing, another good reason to keep the
anti-marketing-ism to a whisper.
The biggest problem I have with marketing at our company is marketing shit we don't actually do, and then forcing us to come up with a way to support what they are selling (Ok, sales is more guilty of this than marketing...but)
Another problem with marketing is spewing out stuff that looks nifty as opposed to providing real information (gee...maybe the mktg. department should speak with the engineers every now and then?) A better example...marketeers developing products instead of developers, and then the engineers being tasked to "Make it so"
Run your own IRC server for the people you communicate with.
EFNet may be dead, but luckily I can still talk to the mountainbikers from alt.mountain-bike using my own IRC server (we used to have a channel on EFNet).
Mostly, we all sit here on/. and complain about spam; but if we'd make an organized effort
to write to our representatives to have a law passed to ban spam, we might have a lot
better weapon against it. We ought to organize a letter-writing campaign.
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No additional laws should be needed. These fuckers operate by spoofing an address to appear as if it came from the ISP dumb enough to allow an open relay.
It's fraud, plain and simple, and there are laws already in place to deal with that. I'm sure there is already something that will cover the sheer volume of crap they send as well.
A few responses to this. First the standard, yes it does just move to pollution elsewhere, but it
moves it to places where the generation is much more efficient, and where it's more
economically viable to control the pollution.
Umm...
Can you please explain to me how you figure coal->fire->steam->turbine->electricity->EMF->moti on is more efficient than gas->cumbustion->piston->motion?
I understand the scale...one engine more efficient than many...but you lose that b/c you are going to many electric motors. Cumbustion engines are far more efficient than using energy that could create cumbustion (or steam), converting it to electricity, pumping that electricity down a line, and then to something that has to create motion again.
#2's my favorite use. Rather than having to get up and use my desktop computer, I can run
apps on it from my laptop computer in bed while watching TV.
Yeah. It was a great way for me to surf on the faster computer and also to check mail with the mail client on the main computer from the lower powered laptop from bed for a couple of months when I busted my ankle last year!!
Administration. Much easier to control people from a single box.
Home networks...You can buy a cheap "x-terminal" (think old 486 laptop, or better yet an I-opener), and run the apps on your big-honkin' server. this is great for browsing usenet news from any location in the house, btw, and always having the same articles marked as read no matter where I am.
X forwarding is the perfect solution for places like libraries, internet cafes, bookstores, etc. Much easier to administer ONE box than a few dozen.
Administration. Much easier to control people from a single box.
Home networks...You can buy a cheap "x-terminal" (think old 486 laptop, or better yet an I-opener), and run the apps on your big-honkin' server. this is great for browsing usenet news from any location in the house, btw, and always having the same articles marked as read no matter where I am.
You guys do know that people who use those domains are typically (like me) people hosting their own sites over cablemodem, isdn, or even worse, dialup.
Please think before wiping out some poor schmuck's personal web site. My own site (also using dyndns) is also responsible for mailing lists for a local group of athletes, and I'd hate to see what would happen if I were to get slashdotted (uh oh...I shouldn't have said that, should I?)
As silly as it is, I think the logic is valid. I personally prefer double or even
quadruple ROT13 for maximum safety, but this is an interesting application of
the "logic" used to create the DMCA.
As silly as it is, I think the logic is valid. I personally prefer double or even
quadruple ROT13 for maximum safety, but this is an interesting application of
the "logic" used to create the DMCA.
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Perhaps Tog should start writing without "smart" quotes before he complains too much more. I got sick of it after the first two paragraphs and left.
Bluetooth will allow all of your computer components to easily talk amongst themselves...without wires. It is also a way of doing neat things based on proximity. Car locks, anyone?
Bluetooth is also inherently more secure than 802.11. Even for people who are intelligent enough to enable 802.11's "security" features, that security is a MESS! You are better off running your wireless network in the clear, with DHCP assigned by Ethernet adaptor address and then using IPSec over the wire.
It's daylight saving...no "s".
The sales droid clicks on the software, which he should be trained to use, and uses it. We have decent browsers, and mail clients now (Pronto is quite good). Proprietary company databases can be done with a web interface...and most BIG companies still do that sort of stuff with 3090's and ES9000's....all you need is a friggin' 3270 terminal emulater (Yup...linux has those too!)
Support costs? What costs more...a windoze system that a sales droid can fuck with, or a linux system you can configure once, and the idiot can't mess up? Hell, have the thing boot from an NFS export even.
It's pretty bad when the Linux users themselves start spouting FUD...*sigh*.
This last episode had a kid facing expulsion for creating a "hit list" of those who bullied him, which the kid explained as being writing ideas.
Another problem with marketing is spewing out stuff that looks nifty as opposed to providing real information (gee...maybe the mktg. department should speak with the engineers every now and then?) A better example...marketeers developing products instead of developers, and then the engineers being tasked to "Make it so"
Run your own IRC server for the people you communicate with.
EFNet may be dead, but luckily I can still talk to the mountainbikers from alt.mountain-bike using my own IRC server (we used to have a channel on EFNet).
I would think IPChains would qualify as filtering software, right?
You'd think the president, of all people, would at least encrypt anything he'd like to keep private.
That's sad.
And you people wonder why engineers don't respect CS people.
It's fraud, plain and simple, and there are laws already in place to deal with that. I'm sure there is already something that will cover the sheer volume of crap they send as well.
Somebody please moderate the above post up!
Somebody needs to do some research before posting their comments, methinks.
Umm...i on is more efficient than gas->cumbustion->piston->motion?
Can you please explain to me how you figure coal->fire->steam->turbine->electricity->EMF->mot
I understand the scale...one engine more efficient than many...but you lose that b/c you are going to many electric motors. Cumbustion engines are far more efficient than using energy that could create cumbustion (or steam), converting it to electricity, pumping that electricity down a line, and then to something that has to create motion again.
Please think before wiping out some poor schmuck's personal web site. My own site (also using dyndns) is also responsible for mailing lists for a local group of athletes, and I'd hate to see what would happen if I were to get slashdotted (uh oh...I shouldn't have said that, should I?)
From what was described in the article, it is an outright lack of common sense on the part of whoever wrote the application!
Even before learning what I know about web security, it was obvious to me that you don't put sensitive/important data in a hidden field of all places.
This would be great on palm pilots. But on wireless phones? Give me a break.
That should read: "All your App Are Belong To US" the noun is singular
I guess I'd better remove all australian addresses from my aliases file, eh?