A spreadsheet is not a database. A spreadsheet is not for pretty formats. A spreadsheet should not be used for recurring analysis.
A spreadsheet *is* great for figuring out your mortgage payments. A spreadsheet *is* great for doing college/hs laboratory analysis. A spreadsheet *is* great for one-off, quick calc, and preliminary design work.
How about doing this for my 401K? My current one through my employer is impossible to manage, and the insecurity around the thing is downright scary. My rollover IRA through Fidelity is ok, though.
On that note, how about making it so that I can choose whoever I want to put my pre-tax money into vs. whatever firm my employer wants me to use?
On healthcare, stop allowing the 'insurance' companies to be in charge, for one. Let me see any doctor I want, and they cover me. Enough with the in network, out of network bullshit. Don't cover routine stuff, but do cover surgeries, long-term care, therapy, etc. I don't use my car insurance for oil changes </bad car analogy>
Yup. Luckily my new dell laptop allowed me to swap out the broadcom stuff that came with it for an intel wireless card instead. $20. Works flawlessly, even with kismet. Bonus, can run managed and monitor mode at the same time:
That always bugged me. I pay into the pool, If I leave a company, for ANY reason, I should be able to use those benefits.
Luckily, when I was fired from my last job, they did not contest (they couldn't show any wrongdoing on my part, just that my manager after a reorg didn't like me too much). But I still had to tell the interviewers that I was fired. Stupid company ego.
I do both. I don't use 'e-bills' on anything. I want the paper, too much can go wrong with email (thanks spammers!). My mortgage gets paid automatically online. The rest get paid online, but I do it based on the paper bill I was sent. No need to go to a mailbox to send a check.
when I returned a dell refurb b/c it wasn't quite what I wanted, THEY (dell) called ME during every step of the process. IE, "We've gotten notification of the shipment". "We've received the computer". "Your credit card has been credited". That really surprised me that they'd be calling me with status like that. Almost every day. Dell got themselves a customer, at least for the next piece of hardware I need to buy for myself.
Ads would never have been blocked if they had remained: 1) a small banner at the top of the page 2) not animated.
but all the extra bullshit is what brought adblockers to the market. Marketeers, as always, dug their own grave by overstepping their bounds. So now we have an arms race.
Thought crimes. C'mon, it's what Chris Hansen is all about. Why don't you have a seat over here?
Seriously though....if fantasy CP is a crime, so is pretty much all the crap you see on tv, movies, magazines, etc. Even things on the Disney channel and Nickelodeon. Thought crimes. Want to see something even more disturbing? It's that this crap is a-ok, and the parents participate. Disgusting.
Let's ban sci-fi/fantasy/mystery/thriller books and throw their authors in prison while we are at it.
... can just use PINs on their data plan instead. Because my g/f has a bb (who else do I regularly message?), I can get away with keeping the $5/month 200 SMS plan, just in case somebody else wants to SMS me every now and then.
Wow. That's a lot of work. The "install ubuntu" option is a whole lot easier. Granted, you'll have to add adblock to firefox, and disable the stupid avahi stuff, but that's about it.
Bonus, there's now a 'guest' account built right in that purges itself, so you don't even need to do anything special to allow grandma to share her computer with her friends.
I do agreee for the most part, however. Windows with a hardware firewall, and use firefox with adblock, and an ISP with a reliable spam filter, and most of the battle is already won.
But again, the ubuntu route is a whole lot more flexible, and has all of those tools natively.
I'd been thinking of giving dad a linux box for a few years now. I could give him a nice interface with windowmaker on mandrake, but eventually it'd be nice if he could install and maintain stuff *himself*. We've already got him on the open source bandwagon using tools on windows like cdex (that one may even get me to give up my own perl scripts that I've been using to build my mp3 collection from CDs for 10 years now), OOo, and Firefox with adblock. He was skeptical at first, but likes all of these tools much better than the other options.
I've been playing with ubuntu lately, and while I still had to tweak many things for my own needs, it's the first distro I've used that I find myself not having to compile any software for, or get too involved in tweaking init scripts and such. It just works. And this is the 64 bit version even. I'm impressed. No fighting with update mirrors either (that was the nail in the coffin, Mandriva). That stuff is nicely rolled up for the end user, and the use of sudo by default for administration is perfect.
I will be moving dad's computer to ubuntu over christmas. Oh, and rockboxxing his Sansa e280:-). This year I can't afford gifts, so the old man gets some of my time to make life with his existing toys easier, cooler, and more productive.
Downloading shows isn't 'naughty' either. If my comcast PVR (I'm on unit number 3, soon to be 4, and then just buying a tivoHD) would record things properly without killing the sound every 3 seconds, I wouldn't need to go through the effort of downloading content that I'M ALREADY PAYING A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT FOR AND *NOT* RECEIVING.
Are you f'in kidding me? I majored in a technical field and didn't even have my own computer throughout college.
the only thing a student in HS needs a computer for is writing papers and lab reports. There are labs for that. And those who want to learn computer stuff will certainly do so on their own, just like we all did.
For a corporate server, spamassassin should be your last line of defense, since it is the most expensive thing to run on the server. You should instead use mimedefang with triggers on obvious stupid crap* right there at the helo. That takes no real bandwidth and no real processor. Greylisting works wonders too.
I used to be the SMTP admin for a 50,000 employee company. Our false positive rate was a couple every few months, if that. False negatives were a few a month as well. Not bad. Losing legitimate mail is a really bad thing to do.
*on the spamhaus xen list, helo claims to be your own domain, helo claims to be rfc1918, fake 'bounces' without an origination from your domain, open relays not caught by spamhaus, a$$hats who have hit you in the past, etc.
Usability is inversely proportional to security; if you want an app that will be usable by the majority of the world, then it will have security flaws no matter what
You're saying that scp with a passwordless key is harder to use than ftp? Same for ssh vs. telnet? X11 forwarding through ssh vs. whatever you do on non-X11 systems? Interesting.
OSS is just a tool that allows you to provide a service. I wouldn't go to clients to support any linux installs. Rather, I'd use linux for the services I would provide to those customers. IPSEc VPNs with IPTables firewalls, PKI, LAMP solutions, DNS, File Shares, multimedia appliances, whatever. I can provide the service of building and maintaining that infrastructure, and I can do it without the hassle of ridiculous licensing. A win for me and my customers. Support to me comes from the community that already exists. This is where the Redhats and IBMs of the world can turn a profit. By providing a service. Rock-solid software is simply the means to provide that service.
Nothing wrong with paying taxes to support education.
What I *HATE* is that money being squandered on computers and shit (laptops or palm devices for 3rd graders????? WTF????). That money should go to: 1) good books. 2) good teachers. Period.
Viruses and trojans (as opposed to worms) are a user stupidity issue. You can't fix that with technology. For a computer to be useful, it needs to run programs that the user launches. Trying to put something in the way to analyze whether what that user wanted to do is not what the user wanted to do is never going to be successful.
of course, things like MSIE make things bad, as the user has no control over what is going on with the software they run. But that is a problem with a single piece of software that is used as a propagation tool. Surely, the problem should be solved THERE. Same goes for office software with built in interpreters.
Even a not-so-savvy user can avoid infections without running AV (which, IMHO is an infection of its own), simply by using software that does not have the vectors in the first place.
For, like, $20 *NEW* you can probably replace the crappy broadcom wirleless shit with a well-supported (even works with kismet) Intel 3945 card. WTF is your problem? Hell, I even did this after ordering a refurbed dell without knowing that those cards were even replaceable. Bonus! I thought I'd have to just use the trusty old orinoco.
Don't blame linux for crappy vendor support. Vote with your wallet and support the vendors that work with your system of choice.
FWIW, my ubuntu install works a HELL of a lot better out of the box than the windows system that came on the thing.
Not sure ubuntu is quite my thing yet though. Much is hidden from the user. I like being able to have control over system level stuff (ifup-post for bringing up a custom iptables firewall and launch services based on which network I'm on, for example) when necessary. Not that it's not possible, just different. Ubuntu seems to be the "let us take good care of it" distribution, vs. things like fedora and mandrake, where it's a little more obvious where to go to change some things to my liking.
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A spreadsheet is not a database.
A spreadsheet is not for pretty formats.
A spreadsheet should not be used for recurring analysis.
A spreadsheet *is* great for figuring out your mortgage payments.
A spreadsheet *is* great for doing college/hs laboratory analysis.
A spreadsheet *is* great for one-off, quick calc, and preliminary design work.
Who says you have to use google's servers?
You don't need to use wikipedia for document management just because you are using mediawiki.
google appliance == killer app.
How about doing this for my 401K? My current one through my employer is impossible to manage, and the insecurity around the thing is downright scary. My rollover IRA through Fidelity is ok, though.
On that note, how about making it so that I can choose whoever I want to put my pre-tax money into vs. whatever firm my employer wants me to use?
On healthcare, stop allowing the 'insurance' companies to be in charge, for one. Let me see any doctor I want, and they cover me. Enough with the in network, out of network bullshit. Don't cover routine stuff, but do cover surgeries, long-term care, therapy, etc. I don't use my car insurance for oil changes </bad car analogy>
Yup. Luckily my new dell laptop allowed me to swap out the broadcom stuff that came with it for an intel wireless card instead. $20. Works flawlessly, even with kismet. Bonus, can run managed and monitor mode at the same time:
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=iwl3945
http://www.google.com/products?q=intel+3945&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
So, for the hassle, I'd rather have a card that is properly supported, and companies *other* than broadcom will continue to get my money.
"if the company does not contest"
That always bugged me. I pay into the pool, If I leave a company, for ANY reason, I should be able to use those benefits.
Luckily, when I was fired from my last job, they did not contest (they couldn't show any wrongdoing on my part, just that my manager after a reorg didn't like me too much). But I still had to tell the interviewers that I was fired. Stupid company ego.
I do both. I don't use 'e-bills' on anything. I want the paper, too much can go wrong with email (thanks spammers!). My mortgage gets paid automatically online. The rest get paid online, but I do it based on the paper bill I was sent. No need to go to a mailbox to send a check.
Actually, about 6 encoded with lame -preset standard.
somewhat related, and very surprising....
when I returned a dell refurb b/c it wasn't quite what I wanted, THEY (dell) called ME during every step of the process. IE, "We've gotten notification of the shipment". "We've received the computer". "Your credit card has been credited". That really surprised me that they'd be calling me with status like that. Almost every day. Dell got themselves a customer, at least for the next piece of hardware I need to buy for myself.
Ads would never have been blocked if they had remained:
1) a small banner at the top of the page
2) not animated.
but all the extra bullshit is what brought adblockers to the market. Marketeers, as always, dug their own grave by overstepping their bounds. So now we have an arms race.
Thought crimes. C'mon, it's what Chris Hansen is all about. Why don't you have a seat over here?
Seriously though....if fantasy CP is a crime, so is pretty much all the crap you see on tv, movies, magazines, etc. Even things on the Disney channel and Nickelodeon. Thought crimes. Want to see something even more disturbing? It's that this crap is a-ok, and the parents participate. Disgusting.
Let's ban sci-fi/fantasy/mystery/thriller books and throw their authors in prison while we are at it.
... can just use PINs on their data plan instead. Because my g/f has a bb (who else do I regularly message?), I can get away with keeping the $5/month 200 SMS plan, just in case somebody else wants to SMS me every now and then.
Wow. That's a lot of work. The "install ubuntu" option is a whole lot easier. Granted, you'll have to add adblock to firefox, and disable the stupid avahi stuff, but that's about it.
Bonus, there's now a 'guest' account built right in that purges itself, so you don't even need to do anything special to allow grandma to share her computer with her friends.
I do agreee for the most part, however. Windows with a hardware firewall, and use firefox with adblock, and an ISP with a reliable spam filter, and most of the battle is already won.
But again, the ubuntu route is a whole lot more flexible, and has all of those tools natively.
I concur.
I'd been thinking of giving dad a linux box for a few years now. I could give him a nice interface with windowmaker on mandrake, but eventually it'd be nice if he could install and maintain stuff *himself*. We've already got him on the open source bandwagon using tools on windows like cdex (that one may even get me to give up my own perl scripts that I've been using to build my mp3 collection from CDs for 10 years now), OOo, and Firefox with adblock. He was skeptical at first, but likes all of these tools much better than the other options.
I've been playing with ubuntu lately, and while I still had to tweak many things for my own needs, it's the first distro I've used that I find myself not having to compile any software for, or get too involved in tweaking init scripts and such. It just works. And this is the 64 bit version even. I'm impressed. No fighting with update mirrors either (that was the nail in the coffin, Mandriva). That stuff is nicely rolled up for the end user, and the use of sudo by default for administration is perfect.
I will be moving dad's computer to ubuntu over christmas. Oh, and rockboxxing his Sansa e280 :-). This year I can't afford gifts, so the old man gets some of my time to make life with his existing toys easier, cooler, and more productive.
"Hey baby, you're hot"
As if notifications weren't intrusive enough already.
Downloading shows isn't 'naughty' either. If my comcast PVR (I'm on unit number 3, soon to be 4, and then just buying a tivoHD) would record things properly without killing the sound every 3 seconds, I wouldn't need to go through the effort of downloading content that I'M ALREADY PAYING A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT FOR AND *NOT* RECEIVING.
Are you f'in kidding me? I majored in a technical field and didn't even have my own computer throughout college.
the only thing a student in HS needs a computer for is writing papers and lab reports. There are labs for that. And those who want to learn computer stuff will certainly do so on their own, just like we all did.
For a corporate server, spamassassin should be your last line of defense, since it is the most expensive thing to run on the server. You should instead use mimedefang with triggers on obvious stupid crap* right there at the helo. That takes no real bandwidth and no real processor. Greylisting works wonders too.
I used to be the SMTP admin for a 50,000 employee company. Our false positive rate was a couple every few months, if that. False negatives were a few a month as well. Not bad. Losing legitimate mail is a really bad thing to do.
*on the spamhaus xen list, helo claims to be your own domain, helo claims to be rfc1918, fake 'bounces' without an origination from your domain, open relays not caught by spamhaus, a$$hats who have hit you in the past, etc.
You're saying that scp with a passwordless key is harder to use than ftp? Same for ssh vs. telnet? X11 forwarding through ssh vs. whatever you do on non-X11 systems? Interesting.
Another reason: Sharepoint. I work for a 'security services' company that does everything on a public sharepain portal.
What's so innovative about the iphone? Not trolling, I really am curious what is so innovative about it.
OSS is just a tool that allows you to provide a service. I wouldn't go to clients to support any linux installs. Rather, I'd use linux for the services I would provide to those customers. IPSEc VPNs with IPTables firewalls, PKI, LAMP solutions, DNS, File Shares, multimedia appliances, whatever. I can provide the service of building and maintaining that infrastructure, and I can do it without the hassle of ridiculous licensing. A win for me and my customers. Support to me comes from the community that already exists. This is where the Redhats and IBMs of the world can turn a profit. By providing a service. Rock-solid software is simply the means to provide that service.
Nothing wrong with paying taxes to support education.
What I *HATE* is that money being squandered on computers and shit (laptops or palm devices for 3rd graders????? WTF????). That money should go to: 1) good books. 2) good teachers. Period.
Viruses and trojans (as opposed to worms) are a user stupidity issue. You can't fix that with technology. For a computer to be useful, it needs to run programs that the user launches. Trying to put something in the way to analyze whether what that user wanted to do is not what the user wanted to do is never going to be successful.
of course, things like MSIE make things bad, as the user has no control over what is going on with the software they run. But that is a problem with a single piece of software that is used as a propagation tool. Surely, the problem should be solved THERE. Same goes for office software with built in interpreters.
Even a not-so-savvy user can avoid infections without running AV (which, IMHO is an infection of its own), simply by using software that does not have the vectors in the first place.
For, like, $20 *NEW* you can probably replace the crappy broadcom wirleless shit with a well-supported (even works with kismet) Intel 3945 card. WTF is your problem? Hell, I even did this after ordering a refurbed dell without knowing that those cards were even replaceable. Bonus! I thought I'd have to just use the trusty old orinoco.
Don't blame linux for crappy vendor support. Vote with your wallet and support the vendors that work with your system of choice.
FWIW, my ubuntu install works a HELL of a lot better out of the box than the windows system that came on the thing.
Not sure ubuntu is quite my thing yet though. Much is hidden from the user. I like being able to have control over system level stuff (ifup-post for bringing up a custom iptables firewall and launch services based on which network I'm on, for example) when necessary. Not that it's not possible, just different. Ubuntu seems to be the "let us take good care of it" distribution, vs. things like fedora and mandrake, where it's a little more obvious where to go to change some things to my liking.