This is not really all that surprising. Google has developed a loyal following amongst its users by: 1. Not suing their customers 2. Providing value (not a bunch of recycled crap) 3. not being evil.
I am sure there are many more reasons why Google is a "better" company than Time-Warner, however they escape me right now (disclaimer I am very tired and recovering from strep throat).
Uummmmm, no. From TFA "Under the arrangement Novell is providing to HHS "unlimited access, upgrade protection and technical support" for products, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux Desktop, patch management, and a range of identity-based services for management, integration and security."
Not to mention their new anti-virus business (a subscription service which couples MS anti-virus with their anti-spyware). Am I the only one that sees the conflict of interests here?
but I'd rather rephrase it as "they could use the *free* (as in free beer) powerpoint reader".
Touche. You are of course, absolutely correct and the point you make about these presentations being "living" (never complete) documents is insightful.
I think the point you are missing is that in order for any program to function as expected (hoped) in an educational facility, you will need the backing of the instructors. I am sure that most of these teachers had not ever heard of OOo prior to this experiment but had probably been users of MS Office for some time (the article states that most had powerpoint presentations). The fact that there is no mention of any complaints from the faculty speaks volumes. In fact, the only negative I saw throughout the article was that some *.ppt files would not open properly and rather than have teachers waste time rebuilding ppt presentations on OOo, they could use the *free* powerpoint reader.
"...her ex- used the profile to solicit sex from strangers who showed up at her workplace. Posting the information and pretending to be her is fraud.
Posting nude pictures of her by itselfisn't something I would consider actionable, despite being an asshole-ish thing to do.
I also agree that yahoo did not do anything that they should be held liable for, certainly not to the tune of 3mil. If anything, it seems the ex is guilty of identity theft. I do believe however that yahoo should have pulled the profiles upon notification by the woman that she did not create them.
You just brought back many not so fond memories. The first really high-end card I ever bought was a Voodoo 5 5500. That damn thing never worked right and the drivers never really left beta, as 3dfx was absorbed by Nvidia about 6 months after its release, IIRC. I still have the card, the box and the manuals though, haha. It is still the biggest and heaviest card I own.
Actually, it was the motherboard chipset I was referring to, not the IGP (after rereading my comment I see I was quite vague in that respect). Coincidently, it was in fact an MSI board. On a side note, my dell laptop uses a GeForce video card that, while replaceable, is more akin to an IGP than an actual AGP card and I have had 100%+ satisfaction with that.
Admittedly I have not used ATI in a gaming sense in a long time. I use Linux too much to consider ATI and have not had any problems with Nvidia's Linux drivers, contrary to my experiences with ATI. Also, I have FarCry and have not experienced issues with my Nvidia card... 6800-OC 128Mb (prior card, ti-4600 128Mb). On the other hand, every server (~40) I have has an ATI IGP display that works fine; but then again, it doesn't take much to display text.
ATI cards I have used in the past have suffered so horribly due to known driver issues that the card was virtually unusable. I have never had those problems with Nvidia video cards -- don't get me started on nforce2 (flaky on a good day, downright miserable on a bad one).
ATI has been doing this for years. Or is that your point? That while ATI has been doing it, their other products have suffered? I have never had a problem with ATI hardware per se, but I have had many problems with their drivers. Nvidia seems to have the driver situation fairly well under control and in my experience I have never had a problem with Nvidia's drivers or hardware. Maybe I am just lucky.
My father just finished building a house in Ky. of all places that uses a geothermal heat pump to reduce costs of heating/cooling. While he does not see 90% efficiency, he does see around 40-50% efficiency; a substantial savings in a house 4100 square feet in size. To put that in perspective, his heating/cooling costs are very close to mine while my house is about 1/3 the size of his -- 1400 square feet. The theories behind the ocean water pumps and his heat pump are very similar. You can find out more here.
Is it just me, or have there been a ton of browser vulnerabities discovered recently? It seems that every couple of weeks or so there is a hole found in IE or Firefox/Mozilla or others even. Are security firms concentrating their efforts on browsers or are browsers simply more inherently insecure than most other software?
I totally agree. I ended up turning that off. What ever happened to icon zooming? I liked that, but the only choice (that I could find) was the tooltips... *sigh*
On a side note, has anyone else had a problem with KDE 3.4 where when you download something to your desktop (firefox, mozilla and konquerer do this.. haven't checked others) no icon appears? You can go to your desktop from a CLI and the file is there, but refreshing the desktop etc... does not help it to appear? I have found the only way to get them to appear is to right-click and create a new directory, then voila, new icons. I have had this happen on several machines with different distros. Some had an old kde profile, others a brandy-new one. I have looked at KDE's bug tracker to no avail.
That is a great idea and one I will investigate. I already use Postfix to automatically silently reject anything that does not reverse resolve DNS or falls on one of a few blacklists. I cannot use many blacklists because they are way too aggressive (spamcop comes immediately to mind) and my CEO would rather filter the little bit of spam that makes it through than reject even one legitimate piece of email.
The machine in question is in fact in line before the MTA that does actual delivery to users; its only job is spam and virus filtering, no local delivery.
But it works against users who do not update, so I will call it succesfull
I am not sure what you mean here. How do you mean it works against users? This solution takes users out of the equation... If I can remove viruses before they reach the end user, then it doesn't matter what viruses these individuals machines are not patched against. Incidently, the desktops in my case are patched, thus not vulnerable anyway, but that is not the issue.
If you meant "But it works for users..." I would concur.
I am not suggesting that this is a case for not running antivirus software on desktop machines, however, as is the case with any security solution, there are many steps to take in providing a complete solution. This is simply one of those steps.
At my office I have MailScanner configured with Postfix, SpamAssassin, and ClamAV. Every bit of this configuration is free (beer and speech) and works very well. I have the rules set fairly loosely, yet it still manages to catch >80% spam and I have yet to see a virus make it passed. It is a bit of a bear to set up, but for those who would rather not, all of those packages can be found in openprotect (with or without commercial support).
Now, for the caveat. As is the case with any type of email scanner, it is very resource intensive. As such, I have a dedicated dual Athlon machine which handles scanning for 50-100,000 emails/day and it stays very busy (load over 1, >50% processor utilization).
Sith Master: What totally drives Anakin to the dark side is he finds Jar Jar with Padme making tadpoles. Anakin slices, dices, chops and juliennes him.
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Very insightful post. Thank you.
This is not really all that surprising. Google has developed a loyal following amongst its users by:
1. Not suing their customers
2. Providing value (not a bunch of recycled crap)
3. not being evil.
I am sure there are many more reasons why Google is a "better" company than Time-Warner, however they escape me right now (disclaimer I am very tired and recovering from strep throat).
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And with a name like that I am sure your opinion is unbiased and one I should base my business decisions on.
They are buying mostly SERVER products.
Uummmmm, no. From TFA "Under the arrangement Novell is providing to HHS "unlimited access, upgrade protection and technical support" for products, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux Desktop, patch management, and a range of identity-based services for management, integration and security."
but it adds an extra nine syllables if you have to pronounce the address
Actually 10 syllables -- >dubaya dubaya dubaya dot".
Not to mention their new anti-virus business (a subscription service which couples MS anti-virus with their anti-spyware). Am I the only one that sees the conflict of interests here?
but I'd rather rephrase it as "they could use the *free* (as in free beer) powerpoint reader".
Touche. You are of course, absolutely correct and the point you make about these presentations being "living" (never complete) documents is insightful.
I think the point you are missing is that in order for any program to function as expected (hoped) in an educational facility, you will need the backing of the instructors. I am sure that most of these teachers had not ever heard of OOo prior to this experiment but had probably been users of MS Office for some time (the article states that most had powerpoint presentations). The fact that there is no mention of any complaints from the faculty speaks volumes. In fact, the only negative I saw throughout the article was that some *.ppt files would not open properly and rather than have teachers waste time rebuilding ppt presentations on OOo, they could use the *free* powerpoint reader.
"...her ex- used the profile to solicit sex from strangers who showed up at her workplace. Posting the information and pretending to be her is fraud. Posting nude pictures of her by itselfisn't something I would consider actionable, despite being an asshole-ish thing to do.
I also agree that yahoo did not do anything that they should be held liable for, certainly not to the tune of 3mil. If anything, it seems the ex is guilty of identity theft. I do believe however that yahoo should have pulled the profiles upon notification by the woman that she did not create them.
You just brought back many not so fond memories. The first really high-end card I ever bought was a Voodoo 5 5500. That damn thing never worked right and the drivers never really left beta, as 3dfx was absorbed by Nvidia about 6 months after its release, IIRC. I still have the card, the box and the manuals though, haha. It is still the biggest and heaviest card I own.
Actually, it was the motherboard chipset I was referring to, not the IGP (after rereading my comment I see I was quite vague in that respect). Coincidently, it was in fact an MSI board. On a side note, my dell laptop uses a GeForce video card that, while replaceable, is more akin to an IGP than an actual AGP card and I have had 100%+ satisfaction with that.
Admittedly I have not used ATI in a gaming sense in a long time. I use Linux too much to consider ATI and have not had any problems with Nvidia's Linux drivers, contrary to my experiences with ATI. Also, I have FarCry and have not experienced issues with my Nvidia card... 6800-OC 128Mb (prior card, ti-4600 128Mb). On the other hand, every server (~40) I have has an ATI IGP display that works fine; but then again, it doesn't take much to display text.
ATI cards I have used in the past have suffered so horribly due to known driver issues that the card was virtually unusable. I have never had those problems with Nvidia video cards -- don't get me started on nforce2 (flaky on a good day, downright miserable on a bad one).
ATI has been doing this for years. Or is that your point? That while ATI has been doing it, their other products have suffered? I have never had a problem with ATI hardware per se, but I have had many problems with their drivers. Nvidia seems to have the driver situation fairly well under control and in my experience I have never had a problem with Nvidia's drivers or hardware. Maybe I am just lucky.
My father just finished building a house in Ky. of all places that uses a geothermal heat pump to reduce costs of heating/cooling. While he does not see 90% efficiency, he does see around 40-50% efficiency; a substantial savings in a house 4100 square feet in size. To put that in perspective, his heating/cooling costs are very close to mine while my house is about 1/3 the size of his -- 1400 square feet. The theories behind the ocean water pumps and his heat pump are very similar. You can find out more here.
How does it compare to Google's desktop search? Has anyone compared them side-by-side? Alas, I don't have access to a Windows machine, so I cannot.
Is it just me, or have there been a ton of browser vulnerabities discovered recently? It seems that every couple of weeks or so there is a hole found in IE or Firefox/Mozilla or others even. Are security firms concentrating their efforts on browsers or are browsers simply more inherently insecure than most other software?
It's what they do. It's all they do.
I totally agree. I ended up turning that off. What ever happened to icon zooming? I liked that, but the only choice (that I could find) was the tooltips... *sigh*
On a side note, has anyone else had a problem with KDE 3.4 where when you download something to your desktop (firefox, mozilla and konquerer do this.. haven't checked others) no icon appears? You can go to your desktop from a CLI and the file is there, but refreshing the desktop etc... does not help it to appear? I have found the only way to get them to appear is to right-click and create a new directory, then voila, new icons. I have had this happen on several machines with different distros. Some had an old kde profile, others a brandy-new one. I have looked at KDE's bug tracker to no avail.
That is a great idea and one I will investigate. I already use Postfix to automatically silently reject anything that does not reverse resolve DNS or falls on one of a few blacklists. I cannot use many blacklists because they are way too aggressive (spamcop comes immediately to mind) and my CEO would rather filter the little bit of spam that makes it through than reject even one legitimate piece of email.
The machine in question is in fact in line before the MTA that does actual delivery to users; its only job is spam and virus filtering, no local delivery.
But it works against users who do not update, so I will call it succesfull
I am not sure what you mean here. How do you mean it works against users? This solution takes users out of the equation... If I can remove viruses before they reach the end user, then it doesn't matter what viruses these individuals machines are not patched against. Incidently, the desktops in my case are patched, thus not vulnerable anyway, but that is not the issue.
If you meant "But it works for users..." I would concur.
I am not suggesting that this is a case for not running antivirus software on desktop machines, however, as is the case with any security solution, there are many steps to take in providing a complete solution. This is simply one of those steps.
At my office I have MailScanner configured with Postfix, SpamAssassin, and ClamAV. Every bit of this configuration is free (beer and speech) and works very well. I have the rules set fairly loosely, yet it still manages to catch >80% spam and I have yet to see a virus make it passed. It is a bit of a bear to set up, but for those who would rather not, all of those packages can be found in openprotect (with or without commercial support).
Now, for the caveat. As is the case with any type of email scanner, it is very resource intensive. As such, I have a dedicated dual Athlon machine which handles scanning for 50-100,000 emails/day and it stays very busy (load over 1, >50% processor utilization).
And somewhere in there he has to say "What?! What ain't no country I ever heard of muthafucka. Go ahead and say what one more time!"
Sith Master: What totally drives Anakin to the dark side is he finds Jar Jar with Padme making tadpoles. Anakin slices, dices, chops and juliennes him.
Okay, you got me, where do I sign up?
"honest/legal"
You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It may be legal, but honest?
From the link - " Even the hilt--crafted in chrome-plated aluminum--looks and feels just like the real thing."
How do they know?