1) Click Tools menu. 2) Click Options. 3) On the left side, click the Security category. 4) Under "OpenOffice.org Basic Script", set "Run macro" to "Never". 5) Under "Hyperlinks", set "Open hyperlinks" to "Never". 6) Under "Java", untick "Enable". 7) Under "Enable", untick "Plug-ins" and untick "Applets". 8) Click OK.
OpenOffice.org will now be configured for best security. Some functionality will not be available. Depending upon your system, you may need to repeat these steps for each user account.
DRM is bad and we don't need it. Amazing how much it reminds me of what was said about the MSX computer in 1983. It was seen as trying to impose an unwanted limitation on the public (ie: mostly sprite based games). Just like DRM today trying to impose other limitations that are also unwanted. Here's an interview with Design Design from Crash magazine. See the MSX section - how similar the arguments are!
My GF answers my phone to my customers. When she wants to get rid of a difficult customer she says, "sorry, he's really busy and he can't see you for a month". If pressed for details she makes up some fiction such as, "he's taken a contract with a local company".
Taito Puzzle Bobble is the computer game we play together. It's a great two player game. She loves it and can get quite competitive. The only thing that the Taito version lacks is an adjustable difficulty level for one of the two players. If it had that then it certainly would be a perfect answer to your question. Maybe one of the other Tetris-like games has, anyone know?
...is the selection criteria of the future, I believe. Future humans will be adapted to a higher level of background radiation than there is at the moment. Why? Because of the war that's coming... Those that survive and reproduce successfully in the new environment will create the population of the future. Those that don't, won't.
I remember an newspaper article about a polluted river somewhere in Russia which is full of the remains of the old Soviet nuclear industry. Almost everyone avoids the river because it is known to make people sick. But there is one man that swims in it every day with no ill effects... Unfortunately I don't have the article and I can't remember where it came from, but it did seem to suggest that a few people tolerate higher radiation levels much better than most...
Re:Fuzzing and Obfuscation
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> writes your binary to their $HOME directory
No, try to write it to their $HOME/bin directory. Hope that the directory exists, and also hope they have ~/bin in their $PATH. If you put it in $HOME they would get "command not found" because that is not an application search path. Unless they were obliging enough to type the./ prefix needed to run your application from the current directory, eg:
According to the book, "Barbarians Led By Bill Gates", Gates used to be horrible to everyone except IBM.
"Bill would go to a very senior person at these other OEMs, DEC or Tandy or Compaq or whoever, and yell at them or tell them it had to be this way, or if you don't do this we'll make sure our software doesn't run on your box. What do you do if you're one of these OEM guys? You're screwed. You can't have Microsoft not support your hardware, so you better do what they say.'
Ironically, McGregor also remembered the remarkable transformation of William Gates III in front of IBM.
'Bill was very humble and would speak softer (with IBM). There was a definite difference in the tone of his voice. You'd go in the meeting and it was just a fascinating contrast to see Bill at IBM versus Bill at any of the other companies.'"
>...between Windows 95 and XP did you EVER have the option of buying > a PC that was dual boot... beOS... AND Windows?
Yes. In 1999, Hitachi sold a desktop computer that had both BeOS and Windows pre-installed on the hard disk. To run BeOS for the first time, however, the user had to install the BeOS boot loader using a BeOS bootup floppy disk. Anti-competitive actions by Microsoft prevented Hitachi from pre-installing the BeOS boot loader on the hard disk. Source:
Yes, I have noticed that as well. Ries makes it clear they're all a bad idea. In "22 Immutable Laws", Ries singles out in particular Coors for over-extending their name (eg: Coors Mountain Spring Water, not too many beer drinkers wanted to replace their beer with water) and reserves the most scathing criticism for the Coca-Cola Company:
"No company that understands consumers would bring out a product called New Coke. How can there be a new and presumably better Coke? What could possibly be wrong with the Real Thing?"
According to Al and Laura Ries' "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding" this is called a Line Extension and it is usually a mistake because it weakens the power of the original brand. They should have created a new brand, not interfered with the old one.
A strong brand represents one thing. Ask for a Coca-Cola and you know what you're going to get. That's the power of branding. So what's this? A cold (isn't cold coffee a bit yukky?) drink that has a "coffee-like froth when poured"? If it's really a "new category of soft drink" then why on earth are they using the name of an old drink? It's confusing, it weakens the original brand and it's a bad idea.
They might get away with it because people could ask for a "Blak" (with a funny "a"). But why are they putting in a peculiar "a"? I can't think of any American words with a weird "a". How do we pronounce it? Blik? Blaak?
It seems to me this product will fail because of faulty marketing and it will damage the Coca-Cola Company in the long run. What a waste.
> Are you willing to pay (a lot) more for convenient customer support?
Yes, some people are more than willing to pay. Believe me, some people simply cannot articulate over the phone what has happened. For example, "I was writing a letter and then it went off!" Translation: "I was composing the body of my email on Yahoo Web Mail, but then Windows hung up my dial-up networking connection to Freeserve No Ties and I could not complete sending my message."
Also, some people have what seems to be a pathological aversion to telephone helplines. When talking to the helpline, they seem to get a sort of constriction of the airway; as if they can hardly breathe because of the horror and tension of speaking to the nightmare-line. They cannot wait to pass the phone to me, and as soon as I've got it, they seem to flop exhausted.
...my USD 200 worth of shares in 2001, when they were worth about 6 USD each. I bought through http://www.sharepeople.co.uk/ but sold because they shares were not going anywhere and the Sharepeople fees were chewing the money at an alarming rate.
Now I wonder if I should've been bolder. I could have spent USD 5,000 on RHAT shares instead of leaving the money in my savings account in the bank. Now the shares are worth USD 22 the result would be USD 18,000! Even if Sharepeople had taken 1,000 dollars in fees in that time, it would still be 17,000 USD now...
Sony also accused of price-fixing in Britain
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It's an even worse day to be Sony, in the UK. Today's newspapers have headlines like "Sony accused of Internet rip-off" and "End to online bargains as Sony forces prices higher".
According to The Times, "the practice of charging different prices to Internet retailers and high street stockists -- known as dual pricing -- was started by Sony and has been followed by other manufacturers." Here's the article:
Mozilla Mail (part of Mozilla Internet Suite) helps by not not allowing the user to run an executable attachment from within Mozilla Mail. The user has to save the attachment out of Mozilla Mail and then run it by double-clicking on its icon in Windows Explorer before they can infect their machine. See my article, "Avoiding Windows email viruses with Mozilla Mail" for details:
IMHO Mozilla Mail has an excellent design that other Windows based emailers would do well to follow. Regarding executable file names, I was surprised to find that NTFS does actually have an execute bit. It's just that it doesn't seem to ever get used, because the file name extension gets in the way! Kind of sad really.
Hello, Tirthas. Interesting question, thank you for asking Slashdot! I should say I am not really qualified to answer your question because I have not ever managed an IT budget personally. However, products like AutoCAD LT 2006 are licenced on a per-seat basis http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?A UT-118961 I believe. If there are 20 members of staff I expect your employer plans to expand. A per-seat calculation could help the business owner decide whether to take on another member of staff by giving an idea of what expense to allow for an extra seat.
I would not use percentage of revenue because questions of revenue are not yours to ask IMHO. Revenue may go up and down but staff count may be relatively stable I expect. If avoiding percentage of revenue saves you having to do recalcuations, it will have the golden virtue of being the simpler method.
Until then I pedalled my go-kart, played in the play-park with Ding-dong (his name was Bell) and the other boys, explored in the woods, etc. This was on a UK Air Force base in Germany in the 70s. There was only one English programme on TV - once a week - The Muppet Show. Based on my experience, I recommend absolutely no computers and no more than 30 minutes TV a week until the age of 10.
I'm quite under the weather about it. Just because technology makes something possible, does not always mean it is a good idea. 1) It looks ugly 2) I find it less informative 3) It distracts from the weatherman's tie - or the weathergirl's dress - those traditionally being the most interesting features of the forecast.
In my case, I fly hang gliders and I sail. The BBC has said that "isobars will still be shown where helpful to viewers". Which viewers? I need the isobars shown every time. I feel like parading outside BBC Television Centre dressed as an old style symbol such as a cloud with two rain drips, carrying a sign saying, "Please give me my job back".
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1) Click Tools menu.
2) Click Options.
3) On the left side, click the Security category.
4) Under "OpenOffice.org Basic Script", set "Run macro" to "Never".
5) Under "Hyperlinks", set "Open hyperlinks" to "Never".
6) Under "Java", untick "Enable".
7) Under "Enable", untick "Plug-ins" and untick "Applets".
8) Click OK.
OpenOffice.org will now be configured for best security. Some functionality will not be available. Depending upon your system, you may need to repeat these steps for each user account.
DRM is bad and we don't need it. Amazing how much it reminds me of what was said about the MSX computer in 1983. It was seen as trying to impose an unwanted limitation on the public (ie: mostly sprite based games). Just like DRM today trying to impose other limitations that are also unwanted. Here's an interview with Design Design from Crash magazine. See the MSX section - how similar the arguments are!
http://crashonline.org.uk/08/rebirth.htm
I know it is a bit different today, what with legal stuff and all, but still.
My GF answers my phone to my customers. When she wants to get rid of a difficult customer she says, "sorry, he's really busy and he can't see you for a month". If pressed for details she makes up some fiction such as, "he's taken a contract with a local company".
Taito Puzzle Bobble is the computer game we play together. It's a great two player game. She loves it and can get quite competitive. The only thing that the Taito version lacks is an adjustable difficulty level for one of the two players. If it had that then it certainly would be a perfect answer to your question. Maybe one of the other Tetris-like games has, anyone know?
...is the selection criteria of the future, I believe. Future humans will be adapted to a higher level of background radiation than there is at the moment. Why? Because of the war that's coming... Those that survive and reproduce successfully in the new environment will create the population of the future. Those that don't, won't.
I remember an newspaper article about a polluted river somewhere in Russia which is full of the remains of the old Soviet nuclear industry. Almost everyone avoids the river because it is known to make people sick. But there is one man that swims in it every day with no ill effects... Unfortunately I don't have the article and I can't remember where it came from, but it did seem to suggest that a few people tolerate higher radiation levels much better than most...
> is file type determined by extension or creator code?
:-)
It would be better if file type were determined by Cowboy Neal.
Remember, executive types don't want to think about complex technology issues. They want to think about golf.
Thank you, Microsoft!
> writes your binary to their $HOME directory
./ prefix needed to run your application from the current directory, eg:
./la
No, try to write it to their $HOME/bin directory. Hope that the directory exists, and also hope they have ~/bin in their $PATH. If you put it in $HOME they would get "command not found" because that is not an application search path. Unless they were obliging enough to type the
$
...would consist of very dark messy room with an unwashed dude eating pizza and scratching his bollocks...
>...between Windows 95 and XP did you EVER have the option of buying ... beOS ... AND Windows?
: www.beincorporated.com/msft_complaint.pdf
> a PC that was dual boot
Yes. In 1999, Hitachi sold a desktop computer that had both BeOS and Windows pre-installed on the hard disk. To run BeOS for the first time, however, the user had to install the BeOS boot loader using a BeOS bootup floppy disk. Anti-competitive actions by Microsoft prevented Hitachi from pre-installing the BeOS boot loader on the hard disk. Source:
http://www.beincorporated.com/msft_complaint.pdf
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:3N2lD1CwqlMJ
Yes, I have noticed that as well. Ries makes it clear they're all a bad idea. In "22 Immutable Laws", Ries singles out in particular Coors for over-extending their name (eg: Coors Mountain Spring Water, not too many beer drinkers wanted to replace their beer with water) and reserves the most scathing criticism for the Coca-Cola Company:
"No company that understands consumers would bring out a product called New Coke. How can there be a new and presumably better Coke? What could possibly be wrong with the Real Thing?"
A strong brand represents one thing. Ask for a Coca-Cola and you know what you're going to get. That's the power of branding. So what's this? A cold (isn't cold coffee a bit yukky?) drink that has a "coffee-like froth when poured"? If it's really a "new category of soft drink" then why on earth are they using the name of an old drink? It's confusing, it weakens the original brand and it's a bad idea.
They might get away with it because people could ask for a "Blak" (with a funny "a"). But why are they putting in a peculiar "a"? I can't think of any American words with a weird "a". How do we pronounce it? Blik? Blaak?
It seems to me this product will fail because of faulty marketing and it will damage the Coca-Cola Company in the long run. What a waste.
The worst, worst software comes from sourceforge.net. :-)
> Are you willing to pay (a lot) more for convenient customer support?
Yes, some people are more than willing to pay. Believe me, some people simply cannot articulate over the phone what has happened. For example, "I was writing a letter and then it went off!" Translation: "I was composing the body of my email on Yahoo Web Mail, but then Windows hung up my dial-up networking connection to Freeserve No Ties and I could not complete sending my message."
Also, some people have what seems to be a pathological aversion to telephone helplines. When talking to the helpline, they seem to get a sort of constriction of the airway; as if they can hardly breathe because of the horror and tension of speaking to the nightmare-line. They cannot wait to pass the phone to me, and as soon as I've got it, they seem to flop exhausted.
...my USD 200 worth of shares in 2001, when they were worth about 6 USD each. I bought through http://www.sharepeople.co.uk/ but sold because they shares were not going anywhere and the Sharepeople fees were chewing the money at an alarming rate.
Now I wonder if I should've been bolder. I could have spent USD 5,000 on RHAT shares instead of leaving the money in my savings account in the bank. Now the shares are worth USD 22 the result would be USD 18,000! Even if Sharepeople had taken 1,000 dollars in fees in that time, it would still be 17,000 USD now...
It's an even worse day to be Sony, in the UK. Today's newspapers have headlines like "Sony accused of Internet rip-off" and "End to online bargains as Sony forces prices higher".
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According to The Times, "the practice of charging different prices to Internet retailers and high street stockists -- known as dual pricing -- was started by Sony and has been followed by other manufacturers." Here's the article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1872549
But if Mickos ever did meet the Devil, he probably wouldn't need an interpreter.
Mozilla Mail (part of Mozilla Internet Suite) helps by not not allowing the user to run an executable attachment from within Mozilla Mail. The user has to save the attachment out of Mozilla Mail and then run it by double-clicking on its icon in Windows Explorer before they can infect their machine. See my article, "Avoiding Windows email viruses with Mozilla Mail" for details:
/ index.html
http://www.pjls16812.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mozilla
IMHO Mozilla Mail has an excellent design that other Windows based emailers would do well to follow. Regarding executable file names, I was surprised to find that NTFS does actually have an execute bit. It's just that it doesn't seem to ever get used, because the file name extension gets in the way! Kind of sad really.
Phil
Hello, Tirthas. Interesting question, thank you for asking Slashdot! I should say I am not really qualified to answer your question because I have not ever managed an IT budget personally. However, products like AutoCAD LT 2006 are licenced on a per-seat basis http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?A UT-118961 I believe. If there are 20 members of staff I expect your employer plans to expand. A per-seat calculation could help the business owner decide whether to take on another member of staff by giving an idea of what expense to allow for an extra seat.
I would not use percentage of revenue because questions of revenue are not yours to ask IMHO. Revenue may go up and down but staff count may be relatively stable I expect. If avoiding percentage of revenue saves you having to do recalcuations, it will have the golden virtue of being the simpler method.
Until then I pedalled my go-kart, played in the play-park with Ding-dong (his name was Bell) and the other boys, explored in the woods, etc. This was on a UK Air Force base in Germany in the 70s. There was only one English programme on TV - once a week - The Muppet Show. Based on my experience, I recommend absolutely no computers and no more than 30 minutes TV a week until the age of 10.
I'm quite under the weather about it. Just because technology makes something possible, does not always mean it is a good idea. 1) It looks ugly 2) I find it less informative 3) It distracts from the weatherman's tie - or the weathergirl's dress - those traditionally being the most interesting features of the forecast.
In my case, I fly hang gliders and I sail. The BBC has said that "isobars will still be shown where helpful to viewers". Which viewers? I need the isobars shown every time. I feel like parading outside BBC Television Centre dressed as an old style symbol such as a cloud with two rain drips, carrying a sign saying, "Please give me my job back".
It is much easier to give librarians the choice and ability to lend them out in libraries, says this article:
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http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/14/