There are those of us who were so focussed on the technical and intellectual side of the rise of personal computing we completely missed the business opportunity.
It woudn't have been hard. Get my friendly neighbourhood broker to invest a few hundred or a couple of thousand in Microsoft, Netscape, etc at certain times and I wouldn't be sitting here unable to afford to buy a house for my wife and kids.
Unless you have been called to the bar then you cannot say you are a lawyer. You will find that many jurisdictions take a very dim view to the kind of claim you just made.
The articling students in our firm are just that, students.
And while you're being a Spelling Nazi you should point out that "There're" should be "They're" as in: "They are going to prison" as opposed to "There are morons on Slashdot who can't spell and use poor grammer."
CA's anti-virus software (at least the current signature) doesn't actually clean the virus. It passes the message and attachment intact on to the user with an additional attachment called, nicely enough, VIRUS1.TXT which tells the user that the other attachment is a virus.
This echoes precisely the reason it got on two machines in my firm. No matter how many times you tell, inform, teach, cajole, browbeat whatever, some users will *never* get the concept of an attachment an the risks inherant in opening, not will they learn which extensions are bad.
8 years ago it was understandable, all this stuff was very new. Now, into the 21st century it's just very, very sad.
Sobig.E first hit Wednesday, a couple of copies got in before I warned the huddled masses to not open any.ZIP attachments until CA got their act together which they did a couple of hours later. A full scan of the Exchange store cleaned everything off and anything new is getting cleaned on the way in.
NOW, late this afternoon I get a couple of emails from the lawyers say they are appearing again, just as one pops up in my Inbox.
CA did update their signature again late in the day which opens up two possibilities:
1) The latest signature broke the ability of CA's software to catch Sobig.E or
At least one has come into my office asking if we use Linux and expressed concern about the lawsuit when informed that we do. (Samba, CUPS, etc.)
I explained the lgeal reasons why they should not be concerned but since I am just the IT manager my words have little credence.
This is the kind of article I can forward to all the lawyers who ask as it's from the kind of source they will listen to, speaking a language they understand.
As other posters have pointed out, it's not what he says (which we all already knew), it's who is saying it.
Our secretaries are continually overwriting old versions of documents when they should have created a new version. When we had Novell I would just fire up salvage and restore the overwritten version in minutes.
Restoring from last-night's backup takes much longer and doesn't work if they had made other changes to the document before the creating the new version. With Salvage I could pick from several deleted versions over time.
I'd like to see someone add this functinoality to a Linux FS.
Oh, man I can't read that without thinking of the scene in Fargo.
Steve Buscemi is standing beside his car in the snow-covered parking lot, blood streaming from the bullet hole in his cheek, the kidnapee's father dead on the ground having just been shot multiple times.
And the "you left your key in the ignition" warning softly chiming "ding!, ding!, ding!..."
I disagree with you contention that "Defensive Driving" means driving slowly in fear of others.
To me, defensive driving is having a heightened sense of what is going on around you and to be prepared to take, in some cases extremely agressive, actions to avoid collision. Another poster mentioned driving over a curb. I've been in situations where the only way out was *hard* acceleration with a non-intuitive steering response. Yes, sometimes the other side of the road is a better place to be if the alternative is close to head-on in the shoulder on your side of the road.
This guy has got to be the coolest person on the planet. Liquid nitrogen notwithstanding.
Creator of a great piece of software, Artist in a practical and informative media (The Periodic Table table) and brilliant writer. Study how he writes, very very closely. Would that everyone could write that well.
Of course, given that there are only two outcomes of a spaceflight your prediction isn't too significant.
Now, if I said that next week a meteroite was going smack you in the head for making such lame predictions and it actually happened, *that* would be significant.
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There are those of us who were so focussed on the technical and intellectual side of the rise of personal computing we completely missed the business opportunity.
It woudn't have been hard. Get my friendly neighbourhood broker to invest a few hundred or a couple of thousand in Microsoft, Netscape, etc at certain times and I wouldn't be sitting here unable to afford to buy a house for my wife and kids.
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Unless you have been called to the bar then you cannot say you are a lawyer. You will find that many jurisdictions take a very dim view to the kind of claim you just made.
The articling students in our firm are just that, students.
Fastest way in the world to
Shouldn't color be collar?
And while you're being a Spelling Nazi you should point out that "There're" should be "They're" as in: "They are going to prison" as opposed to "There are morons on Slashdot who can't spell and use poor grammer."
It isn't a new variant.
CA's anti-virus software (at least the current signature) doesn't actually clean the virus. It passes the message and attachment intact on to the user with an additional attachment called, nicely enough, VIRUS1.TXT which tells the user that the other attachment is a virus.
Time to add ZIPS to the milter....
This echoes precisely the reason it got on two machines in my firm. No matter how many times you tell, inform, teach, cajole, browbeat whatever, some users will *never* get the concept of an attachment an the risks inherant in opening, not will they learn which extensions are bad.
8 years ago it was understandable, all this stuff was very new. Now, into the 21st century it's just very, very sad.
Sobig.E first hit Wednesday, a couple of copies got in before I warned the huddled masses to not open any .ZIP attachments until CA got their act together which they did a couple of hours later. A full scan of the Exchange store cleaned everything off and anything new is getting cleaned on the way in.
NOW, late this afternoon I get a couple of emails from the lawyers say they are appearing again, just as one pops up in my Inbox.
CA did update their signature again late in the day which opens up two possibilities:
1) The latest signature broke the ability of CA's software to catch Sobig.E or
2) This is a new variant (Sobig.F?)
There are 70 lawyers in my firm.
At least one has come into my office asking if we use Linux and expressed concern about the lawsuit when informed that we do. (Samba, CUPS, etc.)
I explained the lgeal reasons why they should not be concerned but since I am just the IT manager my words have little credence.
This is the kind of article I can forward to all the lawyers who ask as it's from the kind of source they will listen to, speaking a language they understand.
As other posters have pointed out, it's not what he says (which we all already knew), it's who is saying it.
A good tape backup??? You must be joking.
Our secretaries are continually overwriting old versions of documents when they should have created a new version. When we had Novell I would just fire up salvage and restore the overwritten version in minutes.
Restoring from last-night's backup takes much longer and doesn't work if they had made other changes to the document before the creating the new version. With Salvage I could pick from several deleted versions over time.
I'd like to see someone add this functinoality to a Linux FS.
You are British, yes?
North Americans are more efficient. We only need to use one finger.
When watching this I could not helped but think that the seagulls had much in common with SCO.
Mindless repetition of:
"Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!..."
Oh, man I can't read that without thinking of the scene in Fargo.
Steve Buscemi is standing beside his car in the snow-covered parking lot, blood streaming from the bullet hole in his cheek, the kidnapee's father dead on the ground having just been shot multiple times.
And the "you left your key in the ignition" warning softly chiming "ding!, ding!, ding!..."
I disagree with you contention that "Defensive Driving" means driving slowly in fear of others.
To me, defensive driving is having a heightened sense of what is going on around you and to be prepared to take, in some cases extremely agressive, actions to avoid collision. Another poster mentioned driving over a curb. I've been in situations where the only way out was *hard* acceleration with a non-intuitive steering response.
Yes, sometimes the other side of the road is a better place to be if the alternative is close to head-on in the shoulder on your side of the road.
2003-06-18 17:43:52 Forbes views SCO Lawsuit from purely business perspective. (articles,money) (rejected)
Woah man, I don't think you meant woe but woo.
"Oh woe is me, I've turned into a Grammer Nazi!"
I got flamed before for pointing out the flat, thoughtless answers submitted by previous respondents. (Mr. Shatner for example)
Typical justification where: "He's a busy man", "What did you expect deep insight?", etc.
Here we had someone who is no doubt busy but provided, in-depth, insightful and complete answers.
See also, "be that as it may ..."
Another phrase I am want to use which drives my wife nuts even though it reflects the kind of phraseology in her native Japanese.
"So-re wa sou da ke do..."
Proper English. Do a Google search on "Would that everyone"
Which is grammatically correct. You do read English I assume?
Phrased another way: "It would be just so cool if everyone could write like that Theodore dude."
OK, so I missed a comma between the two verys.
This guy has got to be the coolest person on the planet. Liquid nitrogen notwithstanding.
Creator of a great piece of software, Artist in a practical and informative media (The Periodic Table table) and brilliant writer. Study how he writes, very very closely. Would that everyone could write that well.
Sigh, this is all now very old.
I used to carry my daughter around behind my back with her standing on my hands and resting her hands on my shoulders.
This mode of transportation was referred to as the "GregWay".
I considered making a parody site of the Megway type but the joke got old real quick.
I can now hardly carry my daughter around at all...
Of course, given that there are only two outcomes of a spaceflight your prediction isn't too significant.
Now, if I said that next week a meteroite was going smack you in the head for making such lame predictions and it actually happened, *that* would be significant.
Absolutely. Unless you've stood beside one of the Marion crawlers that transport the shuttles you have NO idea of the massive scale of the things.
Yes.