I have been a very happy sony customer in the past for a long time I had purchased sony goods as they suited the budget and more often than not they where very good quality for the price I was prepared to pay. Having bought a sony digital camera (DSC-F505V) when it was new and having owned two trinitron televisions and the list goes on. What has always been great about sony goods is that they have been easy to use, functional, and good quality at a reasonable price. That was enough after research to buy the goods and be happy with them. Taking that on board when I went to replace my sony camera I was so disappointed by the fact that sony didnt have a camera that had any reliable after market batteries etc and the life span for the digital cameras was woeful. I have since purchased a Canon EOS 350D which is a much more professional camera although somewhat harder to manage than the sony ever was. Over time my dislike for sony consumer goods has become greater and greater, and seeing the company do such stupid stuff like the DRM and putting out stupid EULAs just makes me wonder what stupid lawyers have gotten into bed with what was once such a great company. When will they get the hint that all the publicity they are getting over these issues is not good for business, especially when the company has not been doing so well over recent years (see profit warnings). Once I would have said long live sony, now I am wondering if they should even be in business.
It really depends on what your searching for as to what the best search engine is. There is so many broken and b.s. links in the google search engine that its almost impossible to claim that google is as good as it was 6-18months ago. There are so many other search engines that are gaining momentum with real innovation. Many people have been very impressed with the way that http://clusty.com/ has been growing. some of the categorisation within the search engine is brilliant. MSN has beaten google to the search engine crown with the ability to search based on a meaning of the word (obviously there are words that have two different meanings and the search differs based on the result).
I am not a fan of MS in any way shape or form. At the end of the day I use linux because I dont have to worry about Windows Genuine Advantages and Service Packs that block keys or anything piracy centric. Its a real liberty to rid yourself of the clutter and dependance on any one particular vendor.
As soon as people realise that they have a choice the trends in the market will change. One of the biggest points is about comfort. People are comfortable with windows they will stick with it even if its a bad thing for the market.
Think about this.. I have spent a long amount of time in china travelling and working. In that time I dont think I saw one legit install of Windows running in the majority of places. So what I say.. Most of the people are earning less than a copy of Windows costs so thats the way life will be. But many of those systems are becoming more and more out of date and unpatched. What MS has done to try and protect profits is at the detrement to the entire internet.
There are pros and cons to both situations. Having a central institution that governs the DNS servers will be a benefit to the community in some ways. There is to much b.s. when you have representatives from every country trying to get their own little bit in here and there. However there should be more input for the DNS as its not just a US based network any more.
This somes up the corporate world so well. Its not about the best standard for the consumer or the best standard for the media its about providing people with a cost effective solution even if the product is inferoir. At the end of the day the industry ends up worse off because we then have to trade in all our products again in a few years when HDTV runs out. I doubt that the HDTV standard will have the same life cycle that the CD has had over the last few years especially as we are so interested in space for media and graphics. I find it even more amusing that its another case of Intel and Microsoft going with inferior technology just look at many of the Microsoft Products and the pentium 4 processors.
The intel range of processors for a long time have held the mainstream mobile processor power/watt and with the Pentium M they have consolidated much of that. however from many sources the new Turion 64 is meant to be very nearly as good in the power area however it does have 64bit memory addressing and all the benefits of the AMD 64 line of processors.
Interesting questions that this raises. How does that compare to intels EM64-T based XEON processors on the same distribution. Then how does it compare to Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems. Its useful to get a comparison for people that are not really familiar with the performance of alternative operating systems.
I dont use any microsoft products for anything that I do. I am not an idealist I dont have any need for it and I dont want to pay for software that Im not going to use. I prefer to donate my spare time and money into projects that I feel are worthy.
Maybe they should look into spending that money on upgrading the national security networks to protect the government systems more carefully. Especially as digital threats to government installations are becoming more and more of a risk. As seen on slashdot about korean and chinese crackers/hackers etc.
One interesting thing about this. Is if there was a comparison between microsoft office and other free alternatives the free alternatives will generally show up as having fewer features than the microsoft products tested. However any real comparison should really see how many of those features are actually used by the vast majority of people on any occasion. Taking that information on board will probably show that many of the office suites are more than just word processors spread sheats etc etc..
At the end of the day the only people that will really benefit from this whole scenario are the lawyers. Either way they get paid out so they dont really care. There has been several antitrust cases brought before intel in the past.. there must be some level of truth to it otherwise there would be even more risk for AMD that has just began to emerge in the last few years after a disasterous run in with intel previously.
There are other issues that have not really been covered in the article. I have recently blocked a large percentage of the chinese and korean IP ranges from my mail servers. That was because of the spam that was not being blocked by spamhaus 95% of it was coming from those ranges of IPs. Since doing that my customers are much happier with the spam levels coming through the system. At the end of the day If there are any chinese users that require email from specific ISPs I am happy to explicitly permit those origins. I dont block web requests as there is nothing that is going to stop attacks if they originate from china, russia or whatever.
The other issues that become even worse. Now that Microsoft have the WGA verification of serials most chinese people will never update their windows and the issue is going to get much worse before it gets better. I have been through china many many times and found pirate software of all kinds easily available. So in the end we should be looking at vendors more closely about their provfit driven motives rather than security driven motives?
I have traditionally been a windows user. Up until I got sick of all the b.s. that came along with it. I installed Slackware (my favorite server distro) on my desktop and have been running with it for 18months. I have even got my girlfriend into using the desktop (KDE). Yes there are some problems with Office documents and features etc But for the majority of people power point presentations etc are not something that needs doing on a regular basis and there are some excellent html/java slide show creators that can do very similar jobs. Taking all that on board YES there is a long way for KDE/Gnome and the others to improve on the desktop but at the same time it has come along way and for the majority of internet users it would have more than enough features and software for average joes and jills at home browsing and chatting...
Within firefox you can setup cookie control fairly well. There are also extensions that allow you to do even more things from what I have been told Although I have not verified the extensions.
I have been recently making it so that every site that I goto it pops up and I can accept or reject the cookie. Initially it was terrible but after some time I have found that most sites are no longer popping up the cookie information. If the site does not work I put on a allow per session within Firefox.
Its an interesting statement that this guy brings up many points that are more opinionated than the republical party ===Quote===
In Linux, you have to recompile a kernel if you want to so much as change your modem! Give me a break guys, Linux is light years behind Windows XP and I am sure it will be further back biting the dust when Longhorn (now Vista) comes out.
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If you wanted to you could compile all of the drivers as modules fairly easily. Depending on your hardware load the module that you particuarly wanted. Its not that difficult and it does not take up that much memory as you only have to load the modules that your going to use.
The hatred for Microsoft from most people that I know and deal with is not about anti trust and so on. Its about Them designing software that is not compatible with industry standards, The huge amount of vulnerabilities and design flaws in the operating system that leave unsuspecting users systems open for exploitation. Yes some of the virii may have been designed or written by linux or open source programmers but at the end of the day the hole is there and its a result of shoddy code and bad practices. Its only when Microsoft gets so much negative press that they actually do anything productive about security and improve their tactics. If microsoft had traditionally been more proactive about security it would probably not have had so many issues.
Its interesting to see that Microsoft as the "innovator" that they claim soo often in media and other sources is really just following and is not really doing anything bleeding edge when it comes to their online services.
Well there are more questions that can be asked. If mobile phone can cause health problems "possibly". and high power microwave is known to cause problems. Then why would there be no issues with current technology letalone higher speed specifications.
Running speeds like that over wireless is going to raise many questions like.
What are the long term health risks going to be?.
At what point will the governing bodies start to enforce legislation regarding notifications and health warnings that are seen on many mobile phone products already in many parts of the world.
I find it interesting that the writer claims that intel have an edge over the PowerPC. It makes me wonder if they have actually ever seen any benchmarks that compare the raw performance between any of the Power range of processors and the intel range. I can understand that at this stage there is no "mobile" Power Processor however the majority of processors apples sold recently have been desktop replacements from many of the reports that I have read (must take that with a pinch of salt).
keyloggers will still be able to log what the user types in. After logging for some time they will have enough information to get into the banks web pages still.
I was recently involved in a build up of a clustered system. We evaluated several dell based Itanium 2 servers. At the end of the day we had issues with stability when we started to MOSIX the itaniums, It seemed as though there may have been less development in resolving bugs. That maybe because of the cost being so dam expensive originally. In the end we got better performance / £ to use an Opteron based system. In the next few weeks we will be taking the nodes down to upgrade to dual core processors and they are STILL cheaper than the Itanium processors from Dell. Total cost of ownership made it better to NOT use the itanium and buy an extra nodes and get better redundancy etc.
An interesting question that this article raises for me. Is what intel arch was being used (itanium/x86). For example could the costs have been reduced just by using linux on say a large scale IBM server similar to their other mainframe?.
It also goes to show that just because something is old does not mean its slow..
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I have been a very happy sony customer in the past for a long time I had purchased sony goods as they suited the budget and more often than not they where very good quality for the price I was prepared to pay. Having bought a sony digital camera (DSC-F505V) when it was new and having owned two trinitron televisions and the list goes on. What has always been great about sony goods is that they have been easy to use, functional, and good quality at a reasonable price. That was enough after research to buy the goods and be happy with them. Taking that on board when I went to replace my sony camera I was so disappointed by the fact that sony didnt have a camera that had any reliable after market batteries etc and the life span for the digital cameras was woeful. I have since purchased a Canon EOS 350D which is a much more professional camera although somewhat harder to manage than the sony ever was. Over time my dislike for sony consumer goods has become greater and greater, and seeing the company do such stupid stuff like the DRM and putting out stupid EULAs just makes me wonder what stupid lawyers have gotten into bed with what was once such a great company. When will they get the hint that all the publicity they are getting over these issues is not good for business, especially when the company has not been doing so well over recent years (see profit warnings). Once I would have said long live sony, now I am wondering if they should even be in business.
It really depends on what your searching for as to what the best search engine is. There is so many broken and b.s. links in the google search engine that its almost impossible to claim that google is as good as it was 6-18months ago. There are so many other search engines that are gaining momentum with real innovation. Many people have been very impressed with the way that http://clusty.com/ has been growing. some of the categorisation within the search engine is brilliant. MSN has beaten google to the search engine crown with the ability to search based on a meaning of the word (obviously there are words that have two different meanings and the search differs based on the result).
I am not a fan of MS in any way shape or form. At the end of the day I use linux because I dont have to worry about Windows Genuine Advantages and Service Packs that block keys or anything piracy centric. Its a real liberty to rid yourself of the clutter and dependance on any one particular vendor.
As soon as people realise that they have a choice the trends in the market will change. One of the biggest points is about comfort. People are comfortable with windows they will stick with it even if its a bad thing for the market.
Think about this.. I have spent a long amount of time in china travelling and working. In that time I dont think I saw one legit install of Windows running in the majority of places. So what I say.. Most of the people are earning less than a copy of Windows costs so thats the way life will be. But many of those systems are becoming more and more out of date and unpatched. What MS has done to try and protect profits is at the detrement to the entire internet.
There are pros and cons to both situations. Having a central institution that governs the DNS servers will be a benefit to the community in some ways. There is to much b.s. when you have representatives from every country trying to get their own little bit in here and there. However there should be more input for the DNS as its not just a US based network any more.
This somes up the corporate world so well. Its not about the best standard for the consumer or the best standard for the media its about providing people with a cost effective solution even if the product is inferoir. At the end of the day the industry ends up worse off because we then have to trade in all our products again in a few years when HDTV runs out. I doubt that the HDTV standard will have the same life cycle that the CD has had over the last few years especially as we are so interested in space for media and graphics. I find it even more amusing that its another case of Intel and Microsoft going with inferior technology just look at many of the Microsoft Products and the pentium 4 processors.
The intel range of processors for a long time have held the mainstream mobile processor power/watt and with the Pentium M they have consolidated much of that. however from many sources the new Turion 64 is meant to be very nearly as good in the power area however it does have 64bit memory addressing and all the benefits of the AMD 64 line of processors.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20050830/index
Interesting questions that this raises. How does that compare to intels EM64-T based XEON processors on the same distribution. Then how does it compare to Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems. Its useful to get a comparison for people that are not really familiar with the performance of alternative operating systems.
seems overly expensive for "micropayments"..
I dont use any microsoft products for anything that I do. I am not an idealist I dont have any need for it and I dont want to pay for software that Im not going to use. I prefer to donate my spare time and money into projects that I feel are worthy.
Maybe they should look into spending that money on upgrading the national security networks to protect the government systems more carefully. Especially as digital threats to government installations are becoming more and more of a risk. As seen on slashdot about korean and chinese crackers/hackers etc.
One interesting thing about this. Is if there was a comparison between microsoft office and other free alternatives the free alternatives will generally show up as having fewer features than the microsoft products tested. However any real comparison should really see how many of those features are actually used by the vast majority of people on any occasion. Taking that information on board will probably show that many of the office suites are more than just word processors spread sheats etc etc..
At the end of the day the only people that will really benefit from this whole scenario are the lawyers. Either way they get paid out so they dont really care. There has been several antitrust cases brought before intel in the past.. there must be some level of truth to it otherwise there would be even more risk for AMD that has just began to emerge in the last few years after a disasterous run in with intel previously.
There are other issues that have not really been covered in the article. I have recently blocked a large percentage of the chinese and korean IP ranges from my mail servers. That was because of the spam that was not being blocked by spamhaus 95% of it was coming from those ranges of IPs. Since doing that my customers are much happier with the spam levels coming through the system. At the end of the day If there are any chinese users that require email from specific ISPs I am happy to explicitly permit those origins. I dont block web requests as there is nothing that is going to stop attacks if they originate from china, russia or whatever.
The other issues that become even worse. Now that Microsoft have the WGA verification of serials most chinese people will never update their windows and the issue is going to get much worse before it gets better. I have been through china many many times and found pirate software of all kinds easily available. So in the end we should be looking at vendors more closely about their provfit driven motives rather than security driven motives?
I have traditionally been a windows user. Up until I got sick of all the b.s. that came along with it. I installed Slackware (my favorite server distro) on my desktop and have been running with it for 18months. I have even got my girlfriend into using the desktop (KDE). Yes there are some problems with Office documents and features etc But for the majority of people power point presentations etc are not something that needs doing on a regular basis and there are some excellent html/java slide show creators that can do very similar jobs. Taking all that on board YES there is a long way for KDE/Gnome and the others to improve on the desktop but at the same time it has come along way and for the majority of internet users it would have more than enough features and software for average joes and jills at home browsing and chatting...
Maybe what we need is a few more million years of evolution!.
Within firefox you can setup cookie control fairly well. There are also extensions that allow you to do even more things from what I have been told Although I have not verified the extensions.
I have been recently making it so that every site that I goto it pops up and I can accept or reject the cookie. Initially it was terrible but after some time I have found that most sites are no longer popping up the cookie information. If the site does not work I put on a allow per session within Firefox.
Its an interesting statement that this guy brings up many points that are more opinionated than the republical party
===Quote===
In Linux, you have to recompile a kernel if you want to so much as change your modem! Give me a break guys, Linux is light years behind Windows XP and I am sure it will be further back biting the dust when Longhorn (now Vista) comes out.
===QUOTE===
If you wanted to you could compile all of the drivers as modules fairly easily. Depending on your hardware load the module that you particuarly wanted. Its not that difficult and it does not take up that much memory as you only have to load the modules that your going to use.
The hatred for Microsoft from most people that I know and deal with is not about anti trust and so on. Its about Them designing software that is not compatible with industry standards, The huge amount of vulnerabilities and design flaws in the operating system that leave unsuspecting users systems open for exploitation. Yes some of the virii may have been designed or written by linux or open source programmers but at the end of the day the hole is there and its a result of shoddy code and bad practices. Its only when Microsoft gets so much negative press that they actually do anything productive about security and improve their tactics. If microsoft had traditionally been more proactive about security it would probably not have had so many issues.
Its interesting to see that Microsoft as the "innovator" that they claim soo often in media and other sources is really just following and is not really doing anything bleeding edge when it comes to their online services.
Well there are more questions that can be asked. If mobile phone can cause health problems "possibly". and high power microwave is known to cause problems. Then why would there be no issues with current technology letalone higher speed specifications.
Running speeds like that over wireless is going to raise many questions like.
What are the long term health risks going to be?.
At what point will the governing bodies start to enforce legislation regarding notifications and health warnings that are seen on many mobile phone products already in many parts of the world.
I find it interesting that the writer claims that intel have an edge over the PowerPC. It makes me wonder if they have actually ever seen any benchmarks that compare the raw performance between any of the Power range of processors and the intel range. I can understand that at this stage there is no "mobile" Power Processor however the majority of processors apples sold recently have been desktop replacements from many of the reports that I have read (must take that with a pinch of salt).
keyloggers will still be able to log what the user types in. After logging for some time they will have enough information to get into the banks web pages still.
Based on the information at this URL :
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http://www.maawg.org/about/whitepapers/spf_sendID
It appears as though AOL has adopted both SPF and Sender ID based Records. as Per Here:
host -t TXT aol.com
aol.com descriptive text "spf2.0/pra ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/23 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all"
aol.com descriptive text "v=spf1 ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/23 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all"
I was recently involved in a build up of a clustered system. We evaluated several dell based Itanium 2 servers. At the end of the day we had issues with stability when we started to MOSIX the itaniums, It seemed as though there may have been less development in resolving bugs. That maybe because of the cost being so dam expensive originally. In the end we got better performance / £ to use an Opteron based system. In the next few weeks we will be taking the nodes down to upgrade to dual core processors and they are STILL cheaper than the Itanium processors from Dell. Total cost of ownership made it better to NOT use the itanium and buy an extra nodes and get better redundancy etc.
An interesting question that this article raises for me. Is what intel arch was being used (itanium/x86). For example could the costs have been reduced just by using linux on say a large scale IBM server similar to their other mainframe?.
It also goes to show that just because something is old does not mean its slow..