So where do I have to send my bill on lost work hours due to MS exploits to get a refund?
You have your attorney send it to their legal department, dumbass. As someone whose successfully sued giant companies, I can tell you that it's very doable. They have an entire legal department that do nothing but handle lawsuits.
You obviously don't know much about history, do you? Most great inventions where created by large corporations that made all of that R&D possible. Most of those inventors benefitted *greatly* from those inventions (but not all). Or in many cases, a small guy invented something, then it was brought to market by a corporation which had the money to make it happen. Somehow, I don't see a guy in his garage inventing the next breakthrough in microprocessor technology, or space flight, or medicine, then giving it away. That's a fairy tale.
I agree... my eyes started to glaze over after the first couple of paragraphs. I mean, one of the first things it says to do, AFTER downloading THREE programs, is to:
To configure Squid as a transparent proxy, add the following lines to squid.conf:
httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
And my question would be: What is the "squid.conf"?
How do I add lines to it?
Where do I put these lines?
And that's just the beginning. This is ridiculously complicated for 99.9% of all people out there, so unfortuantely, this doesn't look like it's a feasable option.
Well, it says that the developers aren't confident enough to give it a "v1.0" version number. Since I don't have my own professional QA department, I have to base my decisions on *something*. That being said, I'm trying it out now. I may make an exception to that rule...
I agree. I just needed to vent. I wasn't intending to be informative at all. Anybody with a clue should already know that Ashcroft is the worst thing to happen to this country since McCarthy.
That's about sums it up. Ashcroft is a Nazi who considers himself to be THE LAW. Keep in mind that he's a ultra-right wing Jesus freak who actively hates gays, black people, non-Christians, and generally anybody different from him. He's a cocksucker and always has been. I'm not surprised. Of course, I'll probably be labeled as a terrorist for this post, and summarily arrested and imprisoned without a trail. Fuck Ashcroft. Fuck him up the ass. Actually, there aren't enough words to describe how evil this fucking Nazi actually is.
I'll consider it as soon as they come out with a formal release (ie: v1.0+). It's still in beta, from what I can tell (v0.9). I don't run beta software on any of my business machines.
I couldn't agree more. XML has been out for a long time, but most people, including techies don't understand that XML is simply a format for a PLAIN TEXT file or stream. That's *all* it is. Even if something is in XML, it still has to be in a format that is common within a system. XML is equivalent to a comma delimited flat file, which also works just fine. I can't seem to imagine somebody getting excited about a CSV:
Hey Bob! Check out this file! It's a plain text file, with data and identifiers, with commas to separate it! Isn't that amazing?!
It might not be an idiot. There are plenty of people who have next to impossible problems with various registars. Bacy in the Day, when Network Solutions was the only option, my ISP had to change IP blocks for some reason. Well, we all know how Network Solutions makes it next to impossible to actually access a human being in the company when their seamless process doesn't go quite as smoothly as it should have (back in the day when you had to authenticate email addresses, fax over letterhead, etc for a simple DNS change). My website literally vanished for several years because I couldn't change either my IP or my DNS listings. A portable IP back in the day would've helped tremendously.
It wouldn't have much of an impact, since virtually every US company uses options, and they all would be affected equally. So relative to other companies, Microsoft would be in good shape, because while they do have a lot of options outstanding, they still have excellent, very steady earnings, and a sizeable amount of cash against neglibile debt. No matter how you cut it, Microsoft is still a blue chip stock, even though it's a relativly new company.
While I'm not as knowlegeable about financials as I should be, wouldn't expensing options also give companies a massive tax break, too? Seems like they would. They'd hit the bottom line, but tax savings would be tremendous, which would offset some of the "loss" proposed by doing this.
Luckily my first manager was a young guy, and was able to look beyond the subject matter to see the technology behind it. But I agree... at least on the web, porn is where real technology is at. Porn web sites handle traffic that would make sites like/. melt in no time, and have been doing that for many years.
I got my first job with my porn site... all database driven with some decent traffic handling abilities, stored procedures, etc. I agree completely that sometimes you have to do something on your own to set yourself apart.
Thanks for the support, but I completely expected that response to my post. It's the God's Honest Truth, but people often don't like to hear the truth. I wish somebody told me the TRUTH about retail a few years ago before I started my current store.
As a fellow retailer, I feel your pain. My store has stuff that expires, exceedingly annoying customers (although not as bad as computer geeks), and low margin stuff that people compare against loss-leaders they find online. Retailing is *not* easy in these days. I have a relatively large customer base. I can tell you hands down that I would run away screaming from a business that had such a small, particlar and yes, cheap, customer base as this (and your former) business has. My customer base is quite broad, and my products are unique, but trying to have a brick & morar compete against every mom-and-pop online is a hell of a challenge these day. We've been open for 2 years, and I think I've aged 10 years.
I love how/. now points to random blogs as "articles". Who is this guy who wrote this blog? And while we're throwing around unfounded bullshit, I've heard that he works for OSDN, too. It's an OSDN conspiracy!!
I'm not sure how you work, but webmail, at least for me, is infinately more useful than a regular POP client in some cases. With webmail, I can check my mail anywhere, and I don't have to worry about storage. It's that simple.
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So where do I have to send my bill on lost work hours due to MS exploits to get a refund?
You have your attorney send it to their legal department, dumbass. As someone whose successfully sued giant companies, I can tell you that it's very doable. They have an entire legal department that do nothing but handle lawsuits.
You obviously don't know much about history, do you? Most great inventions where created by large corporations that made all of that R&D possible. Most of those inventors benefitted *greatly* from those inventions (but not all). Or in many cases, a small guy invented something, then it was brought to market by a corporation which had the money to make it happen. Somehow, I don't see a guy in his garage inventing the next breakthrough in microprocessor technology, or space flight, or medicine, then giving it away. That's a fairy tale.
I agree... my eyes started to glaze over after the first couple of paragraphs. I mean, one of the first things it says to do, AFTER downloading THREE programs, is to:
To configure Squid as a transparent proxy, add the following lines to squid.conf:
httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
And my question would be:
What is the "squid.conf"?
How do I add lines to it?
Where do I put these lines?
And that's just the beginning. This is ridiculously complicated for 99.9% of all people out there, so unfortuantely, this doesn't look like it's a feasable option.
Well, it says that the developers aren't confident enough to give it a "v1.0" version number. Since I don't have my own professional QA department, I have to base my decisions on *something*. That being said, I'm trying it out now. I may make an exception to that rule...
I agree. I just needed to vent. I wasn't intending to be informative at all. Anybody with a clue should already know that Ashcroft is the worst thing to happen to this country since McCarthy.
That's about sums it up. Ashcroft is a Nazi who considers himself to be THE LAW. Keep in mind that he's a ultra-right wing Jesus freak who actively hates gays, black people, non-Christians, and generally anybody different from him. He's a cocksucker and always has been. I'm not surprised. Of course, I'll probably be labeled as a terrorist for this post, and summarily arrested and imprisoned without a trail.
Fuck Ashcroft. Fuck him up the ass. Actually, there aren't enough words to describe how evil this fucking Nazi actually is.
I'll consider it as soon as they come out with a formal release (ie: v1.0+). It's still in beta, from what I can tell (v0.9). I don't run beta software on any of my business machines.
Embarassment is one thing, but ever see a file with a tilde separator? Imagine trying to explain to every DBA wtf a "tilde" is...
"Yeah, I used tilde as a separator because there isn't a single one in all of the data, and there probably will never be."
"...."
"It's the button right under the ESC button plus shift"
I couldn't agree more. XML has been out for a long time, but most people, including techies don't understand that XML is simply a format for a PLAIN TEXT file or stream. That's *all* it is. Even if something is in XML, it still has to be in a format that is common within a system. XML is equivalent to a comma delimited flat file, which also works just fine. I can't seem to imagine somebody getting excited about a CSV:
Hey Bob! Check out this file! It's a plain text file, with data and identifiers, with commas to separate it! Isn't that amazing?!
Selling/providing pornography to a minor is against the law.
Which is why I'm so glad that I don't *sell* porn!
It might not be an idiot. There are plenty of people who have next to impossible problems with various registars. Bacy in the Day, when Network Solutions was the only option, my ISP had to change IP blocks for some reason. Well, we all know how Network Solutions makes it next to impossible to actually access a human being in the company when their seamless process doesn't go quite as smoothly as it should have (back in the day when you had to authenticate email addresses, fax over letterhead, etc for a simple DNS change). My website literally vanished for several years because I couldn't change either my IP or my DNS listings. A portable IP back in the day would've helped tremendously.
Unless Best Buy goes out of business.
We can only hope.
It wouldn't have much of an impact, since virtually every US company uses options, and they all would be affected equally. So relative to other companies, Microsoft would be in good shape, because while they do have a lot of options outstanding, they still have excellent, very steady earnings, and a sizeable amount of cash against neglibile debt. No matter how you cut it, Microsoft is still a blue chip stock, even though it's a relativly new company.
shareholders are often too uneducated to realize that long-term gain is more important than short-term illusion of profit.
Hence the dot-com bubble... stupid investors.
While I'm not as knowlegeable about financials as I should be, wouldn't expensing options also give companies a massive tax break, too? Seems like they would. They'd hit the bottom line, but tax savings would be tremendous, which would offset some of the "loss" proposed by doing this.
Speaking of idiots...
Luckily my first manager was a young guy, and was able to look beyond the subject matter to see the technology behind it. But I agree... at least on the web, porn is where real technology is at. Porn web sites handle traffic that would make sites like /. melt in no time, and have been doing that for many years.
I got my first job with my porn site... all database driven with some decent traffic handling abilities, stored procedures, etc. I agree completely that sometimes you have to do something on your own to set yourself apart.
A Mac-using taxpayer should be happy that they didn't squander a ton of money to produce software that only a handful of people will use.
Thanks for the support, but I completely expected that response to my post. It's the God's Honest Truth, but people often don't like to hear the truth. I wish somebody told me the TRUTH about retail a few years ago before I started my current store.
As a fellow retailer, I feel your pain. My store has stuff that expires, exceedingly annoying customers (although not as bad as computer geeks), and low margin stuff that people compare against loss-leaders they find online. Retailing is *not* easy in these days. I have a relatively large customer base. I can tell you hands down that I would run away screaming from a business that had such a small, particlar and yes, cheap, customer base as this (and your former) business has. My customer base is quite broad, and my products are unique, but trying to have a brick & morar compete against every mom-and-pop online is a hell of a challenge these day. We've been open for 2 years, and I think I've aged 10 years.
A Linux only store going out of business? I'm *shocked*! [note sarcasm]. No way will it work.
A. The customer base is TINY and spread out.
B. The customer base is CHEAP.
C. The customer base generally buys or downloads online.
As a retailer myself, I give this business a year, tops. It's quite honestly, one of the worst ideas I've heard for retail.
I love how /. now points to random blogs as "articles". Who is this guy who wrote this blog? And while we're throwing around unfounded bullshit, I've heard that he works for OSDN, too. It's an OSDN conspiracy!!
I'm not sure how you work, but webmail, at least for me, is infinately more useful than a regular POP client in some cases. With webmail, I can check my mail anywhere, and I don't have to worry about storage. It's that simple.