How about if they took that cereal and made it incompatible with anything but their spoon, bowl, and milk? They could never get away with that! Unless they leveraged their breakfast cereal market dominance , in which case many people would have little choice but to use their utensils, even though according to the EELA (End Eaters License Agreement), located in small print on the top of the box, right below 'open here', only 1 person was allowed to eat the cereal from each box, and only on the table where they first poured the cereal.
I run redundant protection on the network I administer. All mail is processed internally, scanned (virus definitions updated hourly), executables stripped. I have gotten dozens of alerts (not false alarms) this week alone, but all were stopped at the mail server.
If for some reason they get past this (such as one user who decided to check their webmail account), the desktop scanners (which are password protected, and centrally updated hourly) catch it.
All this activity is more than 'just scares'... I've dealt with virus infections twice, losing a full day of work for the entire company between them, due to people feeling that the memos / warnings I send don't apply to them.
If it wasn't for the fact that people who understand the threats are responsible for protecting users from them, the effects would be even more wide spread.
Are they going to bring the internet down? Maybe. If the average user would realise that having an up to date firewall / installing security patches/ keeping virus definitions current were like locking your door, and that not opening unknown attachments / running unknown programs was like not unlocking the door for a stranger, it would be a lot less likely.
When I went looking for wireless cards for my Vaio running linux, I found as the author did that most of the 'support' for linux means 'some one figured it out'. Although this is part of the beauty of being a linux user, sometimes you want to know that the hardware manufacturer actually knows you are out there and cares enogh to support you. In the end I wound up buying a Cisco Aironet 350 card ($125 bux at computers4sure.com), which came with linux drivers, software, and install instructions.
I dont mind spending a few dollars more to support a company/product that supports my choice to use linux. It was well worth the extra $ to plug it in, run the install, and connect to the network at my college in under 5 minutes.
Actually, I did start that, I use it, and I put about 20% of the office on it, namely the users who need to be able to view/modify/create basic spreadsheets in xls format, or basic documents. Saved me a few k in licences (for now at least), and its giving SO a degree of acceptance. The fact that it doesnt seem to crash on them (unlike excel, which apparently has some 'minor' issues with certain application software we use).
Unfortunately I am still dealing with the Outlook using crowd for approval on purchases, but making headway.
I have evaluated every office suite that I have come across that provides an 'alternative' to office. So far the only one that has come close has been StarOffice 6. It seems there is always one vital feature lacking that keeps me from going to management with a proposal to standardize on (insert alternative here).
Either the max. spreadsheet is abysmally small (8k-16k rows), or there is no cross-tab reporting functionality, etc.. There is always something
I know that playing catch-up with Microsoft is a losing battle, but some features are essential. If it is available in Lotus, WordPerfect, and MS Office, you can be pretty sure there will be people who can not work without it.
I'd love to switch to a Microsoft free shop, but until I can go to management with solutions to every problem, and assurances that no functionality will be lost, I can't. Office suites are only one battle in the war, but it is one I should be able to win...
I am happily running Gentoo on a 1ghz Athlon, but I also tried an install on a wimpy machine (P200, 96MB) and it took literally days to get the base install to compile (not that it failed, just took that long to run). When all was done, an emerge update took another 2 days to complete, by which time there were more updates.
If you are running on an underpowered machine, be prepared to wait... a lot.
There is plenty of compelling content online for kids, at least as far as hey are concerned. Sites like neopets, Cartoon orbit and many other similar sites keep my 6th grader (and everyone she knows) on the web for as much time as she is allowed .
I guess looking at a coffee pot/fish tank in another state loses its novelty after a while...
If broadband is becoming more common, and higher average speeds are available, wouldnt that decrease the amount of time spent waiting for pages to load, in turn decreasing the amount of time spent?
I know it takes me considerably less time to find information than it did a year ago... I am sure that a reduction of 5 minutes per hour could be explained away by this...
Operating System: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP Processor: Pentium II 300 MHz or Higher Video Card: 16 MB 3D Graphics Accelerator CD-ROM: 4X or Faster RAM: 96 MB RAM
Millions of pets are lost, missing or stolen. No one wants to discover that one of those "lost pets" may be their own. Unfortunately, it happens to 1/3 of all pet owning families. More tragically, only 10% of "lost pets" are ever identified and returned home, which is why you should have your veterinarian safely and permanently identify your pet with an AVID Chip to protect him from being lost or stolen.
The AVID Chip is a tiny computer chip about the size of a grain of rice which has an identification number programmed into it.
Aim and the rest have their legitimate uses too. We save hundreds of dollars in communication costs with our overseas factories, and the response time is better than with the telephone (even if they are on a call, they can still answer an IM).
Additionally, the occasional personal use tends to reduce the number of personal phone calls coming in dramaticly, so as long as it isn't excessive, we tend to let it slide.
I dual boot between redhat 7.2 and Gentoo on my main machine (1Ghz Athlon, 512mb) and love gentoo... but I tried installing it on a P200/64mb (for a firewall) and it took about a week to compile... and the next emerge update --world took 2 days.
I originally ran Sorcerer, but trashed the install and gave up on it just before the events you mention above.
So far i have had no luck with mandrake (Im sure if I tried harder I could have MADE it work), it didnt like my kid's k2-400 or my wifes' compaq laptop... I guess I'll give 8.2. a try.
As far as suse - once one of the live evaluations works properly for me on the intended hardware, maybe I'll buy it and try it out, but if the trial won't fully boot, what incentive is there?
As scummy as drug dealing / kiddie porn peddlers are, they are selling to an audience that wants the product.
However, I do agree that it is a bad analogy.
Now if drug dealers stuck a vial of crack (with their beeper number) into everyones mailbox, or kiddie porn peddlers dropped hunderds of thousands of samples (with a price list) from a plane into heavily populated areas, that would be a more accurate comparison...
Already using RBL, problem is not successful connections but attempts to connect. My (hardware) router does not allow for selective blocking of IP address by port, and my kernel doesnt have iptables compiled in (working on correcting that). The domain name used to belong to a BBS, which was apparently running an open relay back in mid-late 90s...
is not unlike local computer shows. You pay a small fee for admission ($5 or so), which goes to the organizer. Then you pay for what you actually want there. This does seem excessive, but if the organizers (or ISPs) can't make charge & make money, they wont bother having the shows (internet access), and if the vendors (websites) can't charge & make money (or at least break even), then eventually, theu have to stop providing the service.
vascogate.vasco.com[209.140.121.226]
I am PERPETUALLY (every 15 seconds!) being hit by attempts from this address to use my mail server. They are far worse than any site in Asia. and worst of all, vasco.com is a security related site VASCO secures the enterprise from the mainframe to the Internet with infrastructure solutions that enable secure e-business and e-commerce, protect sensitive information, and safeguard the identity of users.
Am I the only one being abused by these people? My log files are almost useless because of their entries.
I have sent repeated requests to any address I could think of, and never even received the courtesy of a response. They are blacklisted on RSS.
Translate your messsage into Chinese, Korean whatever before sending it. It probaby wont help, but I think there is a slightly better chance of a reply. (I tried pasting results here but it wont allow it. Oh well.)
Tuxtops
used to do it but are now focusing on software. Their hardware buisness is being handled by QLITech
Personally, when I wasnt using x, an old Compaq presario 1210 running Slackware worked well (except of course the modem. Now I am running a Sony Vaio PCG-FX240 with Red Hat 7.2, and it has no problems (except the modem, which I have no need for with broadband everywhere I use it. ). (Slack install didnt go as well as I would have liked...)
A great deal of useful info can be found on the Linux on laptops page.
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Content distribution as in Banner Ads, which is why many people have akamai in their hosts file as 0.0.0.0, or blocked in some other way.
How about if they took that cereal and made it incompatible with anything but their spoon, bowl, and milk? They could never get away with that! Unless they leveraged their breakfast cereal market dominance , in which case many people would have little choice but to use their utensils, even though according to the EELA (End Eaters License Agreement), located in small print on the top of the box, right below 'open here', only 1 person was allowed to eat the cereal from each box, and only on the table where they first poured the cereal.
I run redundant protection on the network I administer. All mail is processed internally, scanned (virus definitions updated hourly), executables stripped. I have gotten dozens of alerts (not false alarms) this week alone, but all were stopped at the mail server.
If for some reason they get past this (such as one user who decided to check their webmail account), the desktop scanners (which are password protected, and centrally updated hourly) catch it.
All this activity is more than 'just scares'... I've dealt with virus infections twice, losing a full day of work for the entire company between them, due to people feeling that the memos / warnings I send don't apply to them.
If it wasn't for the fact that people who understand the threats are responsible for protecting users from them, the effects would be even more wide spread.
Are they going to bring the internet down? Maybe. If the average user would realise that having an up to date firewall / installing security patches/ keeping virus definitions current were like locking your door, and that not opening unknown attachments / running unknown programs was like not unlocking the door for a stranger, it would be a lot less likely.
I dont mind spending a few dollars more to support a company/product that supports my choice to use linux. It was well worth the extra $ to plug it in, run the install, and connect to the network at my college in under 5 minutes.
Actually, I did start that, I use it, and I put about 20% of the office on it, namely the users who need to be able to view/modify/create basic spreadsheets in xls format, or basic documents. Saved me a few k in licences (for now at least), and its giving SO a degree of acceptance. The fact that it doesnt seem to crash on them (unlike excel, which apparently has some 'minor' issues with certain application software we use).
Unfortunately I am still dealing with the Outlook using crowd for approval on purchases, but making headway.
Either the max. spreadsheet is abysmally small (8k-16k rows), or there is no cross-tab reporting functionality, etc.. There is always something
I know that playing catch-up with Microsoft is a losing battle, but some features are essential. If it is available in Lotus, WordPerfect, and MS Office, you can be pretty sure there will be people who can not work without it.
I'd love to switch to a Microsoft free shop, but until I can go to management with solutions to every problem, and assurances that no functionality will be lost, I can't. Office suites are only one battle in the war, but it is one I should be able to win...
I am happily running Gentoo on a 1ghz Athlon, but I also tried an install on a wimpy machine (P200, 96MB) and it took literally days to get the base install to compile (not that it failed, just took that long to run). When all was done, an emerge update took another 2 days to complete, by which time there were more updates.
If you are running on an underpowered machine, be prepared to wait... a lot.
But once it is done, it seems worth the wait.
There is plenty of compelling content online for kids, at least as far as hey are concerned. Sites like neopets, Cartoon orbit and many other similar sites keep my 6th grader (and everyone she knows) on the web for as much time as she is allowed .
I guess looking at a coffee pot/fish tank in another state loses its novelty after a while...
If broadband is becoming more common, and higher average speeds are available, wouldnt that decrease the amount of time spent waiting for pages to load, in turn decreasing the amount of time spent?
I know it takes me considerably less time to find information than it did a year ago... I am sure that a reduction of 5 minutes per hour could be explained away by this...
From gamespot.com preorder page:
Required
Operating System: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Processor: Pentium II 300 MHz or Higher
Video Card: 16 MB 3D Graphics Accelerator
CD-ROM: 4X or Faster
RAM: 96 MB RAM
Millions of pets are lost, missing or stolen. No one wants to discover that one of those "lost pets" may be their own. Unfortunately, it happens to 1/3 of all pet owning families. More tragically, only 10% of "lost pets" are ever identified and returned home, which is why you should have your veterinarian safely and permanently identify your pet with an AVID Chip to protect him from being lost or stolen.
The AVID Chip is a tiny computer chip about the size of a grain of rice which has an identification number programmed into it.
You might also want to consider nuking your posts from the archive. There is an automatic removal tool for doing this if the account is still active.
Aim and the rest have their legitimate uses too. We save hundreds of dollars in communication costs with our overseas factories, and the response time is better than with the telephone (even if they are on a call, they can still answer an IM).
Additionally, the occasional personal use tends to reduce the number of personal phone calls coming in dramaticly, so as long as it isn't excessive, we tend to let it slide.
I dual boot between redhat 7.2 and Gentoo on my main machine (1Ghz Athlon, 512mb) and love gentoo... but I tried installing it on a P200 /64mb (for a firewall) and it took about a week to compile... and the next emerge update --world took 2 days.
I originally ran Sorcerer, but trashed the install and gave up on it just before the events you mention above.
So far i have had no luck with mandrake (Im sure if I tried harder I could have MADE it work), it didnt like my kid's k2-400 or my wifes' compaq laptop... I guess I'll give 8.2. a try.
As far as suse - once one of the live evaluations works properly for me on the intended hardware, maybe I'll buy it and try it out, but if the trial won't fully boot, what incentive is there?
As scummy as drug dealing / kiddie porn peddlers are, they are selling to an audience that wants the product.
However, I do agree that it is a bad analogy.
Now if drug dealers stuck a vial of crack (with their beeper number) into everyones mailbox, or kiddie porn peddlers dropped hunderds of thousands of samples (with a price list) from a plane into heavily populated areas, that would be a more accurate comparison...
or emerge update --world
(Though I am not sure if Galeon has been done yet)
As other posters have pointed out, BSD has it...microsoft probably just has not come up with a proper 'embrace and extend' logistic for it... (yet)
Already using RBL, problem is not successful connections but attempts to connect. My (hardware) router does not allow for selective blocking of IP address by port, and my kernel doesnt have iptables compiled in (working on correcting that).
The domain name used to belong to a BBS, which was apparently running an open relay back in mid-late 90s...
is not unlike local computer shows. You pay a small fee for admission ($5 or so), which goes to the organizer. Then you pay for what you actually want there. This does seem excessive, but if the organizers (or ISPs) can't make charge & make money, they wont bother having the shows (internet access), and if the vendors (websites) can't charge & make money (or at least break even), then eventually, theu have to stop providing the service.
vascogate.vasco.com[209.140.121.226]
I am PERPETUALLY (every 15 seconds!) being hit by attempts from this address to use my mail server. They are far worse than any site in Asia. and worst of all, vasco.com is a security related site
VASCO secures the enterprise from the mainframe to the Internet with infrastructure solutions that enable secure e-business and e-commerce, protect sensitive information, and safeguard the identity of users.
Am I the only one being abused by these people? My log files are almost useless because of their entries.
I have sent repeated requests to any address I could think of, and never even received the courtesy of a response.
They are blacklisted on RSS.
Translate your messsage into Chinese, Korean whatever before sending it. It probaby wont help, but I think there is a slightly better chance of a reply. (I tried pasting results here but it wont allow it. Oh well.)
The Text Zoom in Mozilla 0.9.8 takes care of that font size problem nicely...
Only problem with that theory is that the price of RHAT had gone down on the news of the buyout, and UP after it was denied...
Tuxtops used to do it but are now focusing on software. Their hardware buisness is being handled by QLITech Personally, when I wasnt using x, an old Compaq presario 1210 running Slackware worked well (except of course the modem. Now I am running a Sony Vaio PCG-FX240 with Red Hat 7.2, and it has no problems (except the modem, which I have no need for with broadband everywhere I use it. ). (Slack install didnt go as well as I would have liked...) A great deal of useful info can be found on the Linux on laptops page.