In my experience, most doctors don't really think about problems, but just look at historical remedies and prescribe those particular drugs. They just regurgitate what is in the books. If you have something new or multiple problems (I've been dealing with this for a year now, with no relief in sight), I think I'd rather listen to watson. These guys have cost me thousands of dollars and all of my vacation time and I'm worse than when the problems started.
You can't fix a human behavior problem by throwing more technology at it. Depending on AV for prevention of computer malware is like telling someone to slice themselves up with razor blades then jump into raw sewage. We have antibiotics, after all.
I work for a very large DoD organization. Your comment would be funny if it weren't true. "Wiki? What's a Wiki? That's that thing that people leak stuff with, right?"
Malware is an end user problem. Computers exist to, yup, run software. When you aren't careful about what you are running, you run bad things. No technology is ever going to stop that without making general use computing pretty useless. The problem is that most computer users are not educated, and worse, are overly trusting of their 'security' software and the ads they see on tv to 'make your computer faster'.
The solution is education: - only install software from trusted sources, that you explicitly install (this is where that whole unix permissions thing works better than the alternative) - keep the software you do have installed patched and up to date (much easier these days, has been easy in linux longer than in windows or mac worlds) - install adblock, and maybe even noscript for your browser and use them. - don't click on random links from unknown sources in email. Not even from friends, if the link seems 'out of character' for them. - do not run unnecessary software or services on your computer - don't use software that provides easy vectors for malware. Unfortunately, microsoft office and even libre and openoffice fall into this category. But not opening these types of files from unknown sources somewhat mitigates this. Again, *THINK*. - use a hardware firewall at home (this probably isn't an issue these days, as that is the way things come by default now) - use a software firewall on laptops (even windoze does this by default now, but it will still merrily broadcast all kinds of SMB nonsense. Most home users don't have a need to run client and printer sharing at all, however, so it should simply be disabled anyway) - have a good backup strategy, USE IT, and TEST IT. Re-installing an operating system isn't that big a deal. Losing your digital life's history could very well be. - don't aggregate your 'cloud' stuff between facebook, google, dropbox, whatever. As far as storing things in the cloud? Probably not a great idea, despite the convenience. Better to spend a little money on a home NAS.
And, for those of you who make a career out of keeping your co-workers and families safe - Transparent dansguardian proxy - Sendmail + Mimedefang + Spamassassin + ClamAV
But, again, it's a behavior problem. The above solution are more to cut through the cruft. Ultimately, end users need to understand safe computing.
So it allows someone who is not an assassin, a trained killer, or physically strong the ability to defend themselves. I'm ok with that. This is the purpose guns serve. I do believe, however, that anybody owning a firearm should also be required to know how to use it. Which is easier than knowing how to kill with an arrow, a knife, your hands, etc. Again, the point of guns is to level the playing field when it comes to defending one's self.
The thing about Zimbra is it is one of those "Whole crapload of oss things slapped together and dumped into/opt" solutions. It is also a java-heavy pig. For personal use, I much prefer doing it on my own with imap, ical, and sendmail servers.
I use thunderbird at home, but to be honest, roundcube does everything I need very well, and actually runs faster than thunderbird.
Since I can't use imap directly from work, I installed roundcube on my home servers. It's very nice. I would assume that you could also just install a local lighty with php and run that as a local web-based solution if you don't have your own web server.
Which was a big reason I didn't go with Android, opting for WebOS instead. But now that may be a dead end. Will have to see if OpenWebOS picks up momentum on other devices and gets enough developers behind it to remain viable.
Also, Some problems I had with compiz now work properly. And you can once again configure notification display, the MDM login screen, and many other things (MintMenu is nice too). All of those things you loved about ubuntu back in 8.x-9.x that canonical took away from you? They are back in Mint and then some. Life is happy again.
I was in the same boat. Decided to move to Mint. Tried both Mate and Cinnamon. Decided to stick with Mate. Cinnamon, while pretty, is frustratingly configurable. A few tweaks, and things work the way I want them to in Mate (for the most part). Bonus. Since I did a fresh install, it was a good opportunity to move to a SSD. Holy crap that thing is fast. Boot to login in 5-10 seconds. Running find on a directory is ridiculously fast.
How about you make recently released content available yourselves instead? Put it on an authenticated RSS feed. Heck, even point it to torrents so that your customers bear the cost of the bandwidth instead of you having to invest in the infrastructure. Charge $5/month/feed.
So long as the 'Pirates' provide a better product, that is where people are going to get their content. You win the game by being the ones with the better product. Also: standard formats that play on any device, no DRM.
You already made your money in the theaters anyway. You should allow much of this to be shared for free anyway. It certainly doesn't cost you anything nor does it hurt your already realized profits.
If you are running your phones on the same subnet as your LAN, you are doing it wrong. Yes, it's 'cool' to use qos and less drops, but if you really want to avoid headaches while still having the other advantages of IP phones, plug that patch cord into a dedicated phone lan switch.
...is that most government agencies gobble this stuff up, when other solutions do the job better. It's a scary thing working in a large government agency and seeing the billions being spent to prop these companies up for no good reason.
DRM is dumb. Charge a fair price and offer a better service, and people will buy it. If it's easier to get a better product through file sharing, then that is where people are going to go.
Media companies: Just have certificate or password RSS feeds. Charge $5/month/feed. No DRM. You'll make money. I promise. Hell, even use torrent trackers for the feed links and you won't have to pay for the infrastructure yourself. Your own customers will actually offset that cost, and do it willingly. Imagine that.
Just find something that has solid drivers. I think the big problem is that most people simply don't do a small amount of research before buying their gear, then get pissed that they have to jump through hurdles to get it working under linux. This isn't linux's fault. It is the crap hardware manufacturers who also don't release their specs. The nice thing is that stuff that is well supported in linux also likely works much better in windows too, so you win regardless.
In the case of dell, it wasn't difficult to swap out the crap (broadcom) wifi card for one that is well supported (even with kismet frequency hopping) for my dell d830 several years ago. I also chose an Nvidia card at the time, because I had good experience with Nvidia and linux on my workstation. I'd assume Dell still has these options?
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You should see the things the DoD buys, often to never be used.
Maybe some day Android will be useable and I'll take a look at it.
In my experience, most doctors don't really think about problems, but just look at historical remedies and prescribe those particular drugs. They just regurgitate what is in the books. If you have something new or multiple problems (I've been dealing with this for a year now, with no relief in sight), I think I'd rather listen to watson. These guys have cost me thousands of dollars and all of my vacation time and I'm worse than when the problems started.
Imagine if Internet RFCs were patents instead. *sigh*
So what. AV crapware, regardless of vendor, is the wrong solution to the problem anyway.
It's just that most bash 'functions' are other programs. I see no problem with her answer.
If you chose perl instead, it wouldn't be much more:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
@list = sort {$a <=> $b} @ARGV;
foreach(@list){
print "$_\n";
}
But I wouldn't have remembered how to make sort sort things numerically, and would have just done what she did with shell :-)
But not as open as Enyo and WebOS.
...the U.S. military budget is projected to be nearly 870 billion in 2013.
You can't fix a human behavior problem by throwing more technology at it. Depending on AV for prevention of computer malware is like telling someone to slice themselves up with razor blades then jump into raw sewage. We have antibiotics, after all.
I work for a very large DoD organization. Your comment would be funny if it weren't true. "Wiki? What's a Wiki? That's that thing that people leak stuff with, right?"
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/safarimacbook-first-to-fall-at-pwn2own-2011/8358
Malware is an end user problem. Computers exist to, yup, run software. When you aren't careful about what you are running, you run bad things. No technology is ever going to stop that without making general use computing pretty useless. The problem is that most computer users are not educated, and worse, are overly trusting of their 'security' software and the ads they see on tv to 'make your computer faster'.
The solution is education:
- only install software from trusted sources, that you explicitly install (this is where that whole unix permissions thing works better than the alternative)
- keep the software you do have installed patched and up to date (much easier these days, has been easy in linux longer than in windows or mac worlds)
- install adblock, and maybe even noscript for your browser and use them.
- don't click on random links from unknown sources in email. Not even from friends, if the link seems 'out of character' for them.
- do not run unnecessary software or services on your computer
- don't use software that provides easy vectors for malware. Unfortunately, microsoft office and even libre and openoffice fall into this category. But not opening these types of files from unknown sources somewhat mitigates this. Again, *THINK*.
- use a hardware firewall at home (this probably isn't an issue these days, as that is the way things come by default now)
- use a software firewall on laptops (even windoze does this by default now, but it will still merrily broadcast all kinds of SMB nonsense. Most home users don't have a need to run client and printer sharing at all, however, so it should simply be disabled anyway)
- have a good backup strategy, USE IT, and TEST IT. Re-installing an operating system isn't that big a deal. Losing your digital life's history could very well be.
- don't aggregate your 'cloud' stuff between facebook, google, dropbox, whatever. As far as storing things in the cloud? Probably not a great idea, despite the convenience. Better to spend a little money on a home NAS.
And, for those of you who make a career out of keeping your co-workers and families safe
- Transparent dansguardian proxy
- Sendmail + Mimedefang + Spamassassin + ClamAV
But, again, it's a behavior problem. The above solution are more to cut through the cruft. Ultimately, end users need to understand safe computing.
So it allows someone who is not an assassin, a trained killer, or physically strong the ability to defend themselves. I'm ok with that. This is the purpose guns serve. I do believe, however, that anybody owning a firearm should also be required to know how to use it. Which is easier than knowing how to kill with an arrow, a knife, your hands, etc. Again, the point of guns is to level the playing field when it comes to defending one's self.
oops, I forgot to add roundcube to that list for the webmail piece of the puzzle.
The thing about Zimbra is it is one of those "Whole crapload of oss things slapped together and dumped into /opt" solutions. It is also a java-heavy pig. For personal use, I much prefer doing it on my own with imap, ical, and sendmail servers.
I use thunderbird at home, but to be honest, roundcube does everything I need very well, and actually runs faster than thunderbird.
Since I can't use imap directly from work, I installed roundcube on my home servers. It's very nice. I would assume that you could also just install a local lighty with php and run that as a local web-based solution if you don't have your own web server.
http://roundcube.net/
Which was a big reason I didn't go with Android, opting for WebOS instead. But now that may be a dead end. Will have to see if OpenWebOS picks up momentum on other devices and gets enough developers behind it to remain viable.
*frustratingly unconfigurable*
Also,
Some problems I had with compiz now work properly. And you can once again configure notification display, the MDM login screen, and many other things (MintMenu is nice too). All of those things you loved about ubuntu back in 8.x-9.x that canonical took away from you? They are back in Mint and then some. Life is happy again.
I was in the same boat. Decided to move to Mint. Tried both Mate and Cinnamon. Decided to stick with Mate. Cinnamon, while pretty, is frustratingly configurable. A few tweaks, and things work the way I want them to in Mate (for the most part). Bonus. Since I did a fresh install, it was a good opportunity to move to a SSD. Holy crap that thing is fast. Boot to login in 5-10 seconds. Running find on a directory is ridiculously fast.
How about you make recently released content available yourselves instead? Put it on an authenticated RSS feed. Heck, even point it to torrents so that your customers bear the cost of the bandwidth instead of you having to invest in the infrastructure. Charge $5/month/feed.
So long as the 'Pirates' provide a better product, that is where people are going to get their content. You win the game by being the ones with the better product. Also: standard formats that play on any device, no DRM.
You already made your money in the theaters anyway. You should allow much of this to be shared for free anyway. It certainly doesn't cost you anything nor does it hurt your already realized profits.
If you are running your phones on the same subnet as your LAN, you are doing it wrong. Yes, it's 'cool' to use qos and less drops, but if you really want to avoid headaches while still having the other advantages of IP phones, plug that patch cord into a dedicated phone lan switch.
...is that most government agencies gobble this stuff up, when other solutions do the job better. It's a scary thing working in a large government agency and seeing the billions being spent to prop these companies up for no good reason.
s/piracy and circumvention/better products/
DRM is dumb. Charge a fair price and offer a better service, and people will buy it. If it's easier to get a better product through file sharing, then that is where people are going to go.
Media companies:
Just have certificate or password RSS feeds. Charge $5/month/feed. No DRM. You'll make money. I promise. Hell, even use torrent trackers for the feed links and you won't have to pay for the infrastructure yourself. Your own customers will actually offset that cost, and do it willingly. Imagine that.
- Wireless card
- Video
- Onboard ethernet.
Just find something that has solid drivers. I think the big problem is that most people simply don't do a small amount of research before buying their gear, then get pissed that they have to jump through hurdles to get it working under linux. This isn't linux's fault. It is the crap hardware manufacturers who also don't release their specs. The nice thing is that stuff that is well supported in linux also likely works much better in windows too, so you win regardless.
In the case of dell, it wasn't difficult to swap out the crap (broadcom) wifi card for one that is well supported (even with kismet frequency hopping) for my dell d830 several years ago. I also chose an Nvidia card at the time, because I had good experience with Nvidia and linux on my workstation. I'd assume Dell still has these options?
Yes men.
Also, what will the actual URL be? Don't really want to bookmark mbeta and then not know about things going live.