I'm getting rather tired of all of this attempted 'protect the children' bullshit legislation. How about we make parents actually do their own damned job, and leave the rest of us alone?
If mom and dad don't want johnny and suzy on the big bad internet, than it is their responsibility to restrict it. NOT the government's.
If it was not for Microsoft this school would still be built, it just wouldn't have the technology.
Which is the way it *SHOULD* be built. None of that shit, unless being used to type papers or use spreadsheets to analyze lab results will help anybody in a obtaining a school education.
Need an example? Fine. You cannot understand calculus if you only know how to use a symbolic manipulator like maple or mathcad. What's next, calculators to 1st graders, so they don't need to learn basic arithmetic? How about automatic text generation, so they don't have to learn to form a coherent thought or write it on their own. Ever?
I am so tired of the technology in schools for technology's sake. How about taking that money and paying it to good teachers? Or using it in programs to promote people becoming teachers (scholarships to major in teaching, test fees, etc).
It's been 3 weeks, and our corporation Active-Directory machines (read: supposedly 'managed') are still not all patched, and many are still infected with the virus.
You really expect home lusers to be better than that?
Ok, what about the case where you buy the cd, and rip copies for your 3 friends, who all chipped in for the originial purchase? This seems more likely. 4x the music for the same price.
Any company serious about making money has by now implemented real project management across the board. This means that, in the company I work for for example, people cannot simply 'pile on' work. If a resource is needed, they need to be consulted on a realistic time that it would take them to do their particular tasks in any given project. You should either learn project management, and be your own project manager for anything you do, or make sure that you have a good project manager who can properly manage resources when somebody requires your time.
I hate being a project manager. It is a difficult and thankless job. You have to answer for things that are not finished on time or on budget. Being a 'techie' who is trying to do 'real work' in addition to manageing my own projects makes it even worse. But, if you don't want to be 'herding cats', you really do need to implement a standardized project management methodology throughout your entire organization. Otherwise, the entire organization is likely to fail.
I disagree. The way AOL has gone about this has made my life as a person who runs his own mail server and hosts lists for his cycling teammates a royal pain in the ass. Since AOL now bounces mail from any 'suspicious' IP's (instead of using intelligent things like, oh, a properly configured mail server!), I had to start smart-relaying through my ISP's server. This has caused all types of fun, as my ISP has clue 0 about configuring a mail server and now my admin mail folder is flooded with all kinds of crap, including delay messages, which should not be sent every friggin' hour.
Is spam bad? Definitely. Is AOL's 'solution' the right one? Fsck no. This will do NOTHING to curb spam, but will make small-site admins have yet more headaches.
My favorite javascriptism is using + as both a numerical addition and a string concatenator, which, of course, is all kinds of fun in a language where you don't type your variables:
looks like many of the cool things that OS/2's WPS had in...hrm...1993.
Seriously...you could use the 'root' window context menu to arrange your windows as Expose is bragging to do. That was just one of very many tricks (like work area folders). Everything was consistent, efficient, and intuitive.
Exactly my first thought. The whole concept of the 'start menu' and 'task bar' are the worst UI concepts i've ever seen in my life. Give me context and root window menus any day. Also, I've never seen any of these 'start bar' things ever easy or intuitive to configure, not in windoze or all of the junk trying to mimic it.
With something so obfuscated, you are more likely to end up in your friends' and family members' address books. I'm sure you have a great time when worms like SoBig, Klez, etc hit.
Maybe you don't have this problem. I never did until becoming the list manager for my cycling team, then the bounces and spam (to a list alias that is NOT advertised anywhere) started flooding in.
OS/2's WPS was far beyond both of them, and to this day is (was) more consistent and intuitive (once you knew how it worked...of course everyone will argue, but ANY system will require learning how it works! The nice thing about WPS is you only had to learn the basics...everything was then a layer on top of those building blocks...totally consistent!)
How do you consider that interface acceptable or good? It seems to be going towards an interface that is more and more difficult to use, not better. Heck, even just dealing with stuff on menu bar is damned unintuitive and inconsistent with other parts of the OS. This version seems to make the inconsistent interface even worse.
And I'm not even touching on the horrid inefficiency to do even the most basic tasks in windows (how can I quickly bring up a command prompt from explorer that puts me in the directory that I am 'exploring?', for example. Simple in UI's like ROX Filer, and easily scripted in others. Windows? Good luck.)
It's too bad that ximian and KDE love copying this piece of crap interface so much.
One major manufacturing facility in Taiwan that I work with had its internal network hit including control devices running on Windows NT. It probably caused between 1 to 2 million dollars in damage because of production delays.
Really dumb question, but why, oh why, would you have ACS directly connected to the rest or your network??? are you insane???
Ever hear of OS/2? It's excellent windoze application support is part of what killed it. The last thing you should want is great windoze compatibility on linux. Why would a company then write a better app for linux, one which takes advantage of the strengths of linux?
Yup, that firewall is going to do all kinds of good when a sales droid connects their (company owned) laptop to your private network after having had it connected to the raw Internet via dialup or broadband, or after they received mail from their personal ISP and, of course, ran every attachment under the sun.
Your security team? Shouldn't your windows admins be applying patches, while the security team is busy actually staying up to date on what is in the wild and managing policies, firewalls, vpns, etc?
If it is a *nix box, and the end user has some form of shell access, then it is already possible. They simply need to configure their ~/.procmailrc. There is nothing at all that needs to be changed in pop3. In fact, I pop for my mail while at home, use pine to the mail server while on the road, and for my own account and my mailing lists, this is exactly how I currently call spamassassin. Using MimeDefang to catch it, along with rejecting on dumb things like broken helos and no reverse resolving, without needing real accounts is my next project.
You cannot automatically filter spam. Bayesian filtering works because it works on your own personal items only, and you have a method of manually removing false positives. There is nothing worse than the possibility that an ISP will filter out a real email in their spam system. That simple fact makes server side spam filtering impossible for most situations.
Not impossible at all. Just don't DELETE the stuff at the server, and flag it in the subject line as spam. Then the END USER can EASILY filter it as he/she pleases. Or you could make a web interface for them to filter it before they even have to pop for it.
Maybe people will start taking responsibility for machines they put on the Internet. I still believe a basic course should be taught, and that a license should be required in order to operate a computer on the Internet, just as a license is required to operate a high-powered radio, etc. People need to start being responsible, if they are to be the 'system administrators' of computers that they connect to the Internet.
Yes, you can blame M$ all you want for the flaws and poor default configurations to exist in the first place, but ultimately viruses, trojans, adware, etc are a social issue that is best dealt with using education.
I run linux and fully expect that the tech won't be able to answer specific questions.
However, when I know there is an issue on their end and call, I expect that they will realize I know what I am talking about, and escalate to somebody who can actually fix the problem, or it may be something they can actually fix themselves.
A competent help desk person can certainly deal with these situations, and my ISP's has on several occasions for me.
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If mom and dad don't want johnny and suzy on the big bad internet, than it is their responsibility to restrict it. NOT the government's.
Which is the way it *SHOULD* be built. None of that shit, unless being used to type papers or use spreadsheets to analyze lab results will help anybody in a obtaining a school education.
Need an example? Fine. You cannot understand calculus if you only know how to use a symbolic manipulator like maple or mathcad. What's next, calculators to 1st graders, so they don't need to learn basic arithmetic? How about automatic text generation, so they don't have to learn to form a coherent thought or write it on their own. Ever?
I am so tired of the technology in schools for technology's sake. How about taking that money and paying it to good teachers? Or using it in programs to promote people becoming teachers (scholarships to major in teaching, test fees, etc).
It's been 3 weeks, and our corporation Active-Directory machines (read: supposedly 'managed') are still not all patched, and many are still infected with the virus.
You really expect home lusers to be better than that?
Ok, what about the case where you buy the cd, and rip copies for your 3 friends, who all chipped in for the originial purchase? This seems more likely. 4x the music for the same price.
I hate being a project manager. It is a difficult and thankless job. You have to answer for things that are not finished on time or on budget. Being a 'techie' who is trying to do 'real work' in addition to manageing my own projects makes it even worse. But, if you don't want to be 'herding cats', you really do need to implement a standardized project management methodology throughout your entire organization. Otherwise, the entire organization is likely to fail.
shop online much? How are they going to send your order status, or if there is a problem, if you are dumping anything not signed to /dev/null?
Is spam bad? Definitely. Is AOL's 'solution' the right one? Fsck no. This will do NOTHING to curb spam, but will make small-site admins have yet more headaches.
a = 1 + 4 would yield a = '14'. Irritating.
Seriously...you could use the 'root' window context menu to arrange your windows as Expose is bragging to do. That was just one of very many tricks (like work area folders). Everything was consistent, efficient, and intuitive.
Exactly my first thought. The whole concept of the 'start menu' and 'task bar' are the worst UI concepts i've ever seen in my life. Give me context and root window menus any day. Also, I've never seen any of these 'start bar' things ever easy or intuitive to configure, not in windoze or all of the junk trying to mimic it.
Maybe you don't have this problem. I never did until becoming the list manager for my cycling team, then the bounces and spam (to a list alias that is NOT advertised anywhere) started flooding in.
I get an instant headache everytime I sit at our windoze XP box in our lab.
Ugh.
OS/2's WPS was far beyond both of them, and to this day is (was) more consistent and intuitive (once you knew how it worked...of course everyone will argue, but ANY system will require learning how it works! The nice thing about WPS is you only had to learn the basics...everything was then a layer on top of those building blocks...totally consistent!)
And I'm not even touching on the horrid inefficiency to do even the most basic tasks in windows (how can I quickly bring up a command prompt from explorer that puts me in the directory that I am 'exploring?', for example. Simple in UI's like ROX Filer, and easily scripted in others. Windows? Good luck.)
It's too bad that ximian and KDE love copying this piece of crap interface so much.
Or people would actually start to understand how expensive it is to maintain m$ stuff, and seek better alternatives.
Doesn't surprise me. Hell, my web server STILL gets hits from code red!!!! What's it been, 3 years now???
Ever hear of OS/2? It's excellent windoze application support is part of what killed it. The last thing you should want is great windoze compatibility on linux. Why would a company then write a better app for linux, one which takes advantage of the strengths of linux?
Firewall != security.
Your security team? Shouldn't your windows admins be applying patches, while the security team is busy actually staying up to date on what is in the wild and managing policies, firewalls, vpns, etc?
If it is a *nix box, and the end user has some form of shell access, then it is already possible. They simply need to configure their ~/.procmailrc. There is nothing at all that needs to be changed in pop3. In fact, I pop for my mail while at home, use pine to the mail server while on the road, and for my own account and my mailing lists, this is exactly how I currently call spamassassin. Using MimeDefang to catch it, along with rejecting on dumb things like broken helos and no reverse resolving, without needing real accounts is my next project.
You obviously don't run a mail server, for your company or at home.
Yes, you can blame M$ all you want for the flaws and poor default configurations to exist in the first place, but ultimately viruses, trojans, adware, etc are a social issue that is best dealt with using education.
However, when I know there is an issue on their end and call, I expect that they will realize I know what I am talking about, and escalate to somebody who can actually fix the problem, or it may be something they can actually fix themselves.
A competent help desk person can certainly deal with these situations, and my ISP's has on several occasions for me.