I've been freelance since 1998 and I'm on my wife's benefits. Yes, it would be much tougher without her (at least WRT benefits).
There are other ways, although I haven't thoroughly investigated them, such as through The Freelancer's Union. It's expensive there, but not really out of line for what your employer's paying for you in a "real" job.
IIRC, there wasn't really a bug in the disk compression; the issue was lazy writes. Users who, for example, shut the system down precipitously, might have had written data lost, but the same is true of any modern OS. I think all 6.2 did in this regard was to shut off lazy writes by default.
You might remember that Infoworld ran a major page 1 review reporting that the compression had bugs that resulted in lost data, but in fact it was their faulty testing procedures that caused system resets without flushing the cache that was the cause of the lost data. Infoworld ran a page 1 correction not long thereafter, but that wouldn't stop trial lawyers from trying to form a class.
Actually, it's been tried a bunch of times and always sucked. Perhaps Ajax+more powerful servers+broadband will make this more practical, but it depends on a large number of factors. Can they really get Ajax to be fast enough for large, complex spreadsheets?
So what if it is because of people who don't change their home page? That's how Netscape.com became wildly successful for a long time, and it still gets people to view your ads.
I never spend any time there, but my wife leaves msn.com as her home page and reads the news and stuff like that. I'm sure there's a zillion people like her.
How many years now has Windows support been experimental? Obviously they aren't serious about supporting Windows. If the school district feels they have to use Apache then they should run their web servers on something else, but that has little to do with the rest of the infrastructure.
This is a workaround. It disables the feature that has the flaw. I wouldn't call this patching the bug. When the real patch comes around, this will be even more evident
Just so it gets said, they set this schedule because large corporate customers demanded it, and they're happy with it. In case this is the first time you noticed, they've been doing this for almost 2 years I think. Oracle does something similar, on a quarterly basis. Having a regular schedule (with some warning in advance of which products are affected and how many updates there are) allows them to plan for patching in advance.
The fact that they have a schedule doesn't preclude them from issuing an "out of cycle" update, which they have done 2, maybe 3 times.
actually, on XP SP0/SP1 it needs a valid logon. On SP2 it needs a valid logon and, depending on whose reports you believe, either admin privileges or rights to log on locally. So it's hard to believe that SP2 systems will be compromised in the real world by this. I can see SP0/1 systems being hit through a dictionary attack, but it's more work than most worms will bother to do.
>>So if it gets into your internal LAN, you're powerless to block it off, other than to shut down the entire LAN, clean all of the systems without plugging back into the LAN, and bring the whole thing back up.
Tell it like it is. Japan's aggression against its neighbors was unprovoked and vicious. They basically enslaved all of Korea.
You can make a good case that we could have handled it better. Perhaps we could have made the first bomb a demonstrative drop, off Tokyo Bay or something like that, preceded by leaflets saying "Look at what we can do." But we had only the two bombs we dropped (3 including the first test shot) and very little capacity to manufacture more. I think by 1949 we only had about 15 bombs. We probably also wanted to demonstrate to others, such as the Russians, that we were willing to use these weapons if we had to.
If, instead of an A-bomb, we had done another firebombing, many of which killed many more people than the A-bomb, there would be little controversy about it today. In the context of the times, using the A-bomb was the right thing to do and it saved lives, especially American lives, but Japanese lives too.
Go read a damn history book before you open your trap. It was Germany and Japan that launched aggressive wars of conquest against their neighbors, not the US. If Germany had done that it *would* have been a war crime.
You think this is making you jump through hoops? For most people it takes less than a minute unless you're completely retarded. And you only have to do it once.
God forbid you should actually have to jump through a hoop some day, you'll learn what real work is.
Actually, one of the questions I have is how new the flaws really are. They have been patched, but how long ago? How much uprading has been done? If it had been widely upgraded I suppose Cisco would have less reason to fear disclosure
For a Philadelphia reference, Veterans Stadium is still there (set up for baseball) and construction on Lincoln Financial Field has not commenced (it actually began on May 7, 2001). The roof of the Wachovia Center says "First Union Center"
>>your image as a company not giving into the FCC and protecting your customers.. horrible.
You actually expect them to break the law to protect your laziness? They have an obligation to their investors to remain in business too you know. If the FCC shuts them down for non-compliance with rules I guarantee it will serve no cause other than to scare the other vendors into fast compliance.
I'm with you, it should be optional, but it isn't.
>>If a child runs into the interstate and ends up causing an accident that kills 20 people, we don't charge the child with 20 cases of manslaughter.
I think what we have here is a kid throwing nails on the interstate and causing an accident. Sure, he's responsible for all the damage and substantially for damage from worm variants that he didn't create.
And if he was smart enough to create such worms at age 17 he was smart enough to comprehend the damage they could cause. He did it for the notoriety, so he would want the biggest impact he could get.
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I've been freelance since 1998 and I'm on my wife's benefits. Yes, it would be much tougher without her (at least WRT benefits).
There are other ways, although I haven't thoroughly investigated them, such as through The Freelancer's Union. It's expensive there, but not really out of line for what your employer's paying for you in a "real" job.
The actual ancestor of FAT, as you indicate, was the MS Disk BASIC format, written by Bill Gates himself.
IIRC, there wasn't really a bug in the disk compression; the issue was lazy writes. Users who, for example, shut the system down precipitously, might have had written data lost, but the same is true of any modern OS. I think all 6.2 did in this regard was to shut off lazy writes by default.
You might remember that Infoworld ran a major page 1 review reporting that the compression had bugs that resulted in lost data, but in fact it was their faulty testing procedures that caused system resets without flushing the cache that was the cause of the lost data. Infoworld ran a page 1 correction not long thereafter, but that wouldn't stop trial lawyers from trying to form a class.
Actually, it's been tried a bunch of times and always sucked. Perhaps Ajax+more powerful servers+broadband will make this more practical, but it depends on a large number of factors. Can they really get Ajax to be fast enough for large, complex spreadsheets?
So what if it is because of people who don't change their home page? That's how Netscape.com became wildly successful for a long time, and it still gets people to view your ads.
I never spend any time there, but my wife leaves msn.com as her home page and reads the news and stuff like that. I'm sure there's a zillion people like her.
How many years now has Windows support been experimental? Obviously they aren't serious about supporting Windows. If the school district feels they have to use Apache then they should run their web servers on something else, but that has little to do with the rest of the infrastructure.
This is a workaround. It disables the feature that has the flaw. I wouldn't call this patching the bug. When the real patch comes around, this will be even more evident
Just so it gets said, they set this schedule because large corporate customers demanded it, and they're happy with it. In case this is the first time you noticed, they've been doing this for almost 2 years I think. Oracle does something similar, on a quarterly basis. Having a regular schedule (with some warning in advance of which products are affected and how many updates there are) allows them to plan for patching in advance.
The fact that they have a schedule doesn't preclude them from issuing an "out of cycle" update, which they have done 2, maybe 3 times.
A million users and they want POP3? Add a gun and a single bullet to your administration requirements.
And he'd open himself right up to a maldeist lawsuit
"The bottom line is we have a very unsafe planet."
Perhaps the government should file an administrative order against God, making him build a newer, safer one.
What's the Sun Tzu saying? "Keep your friends close, your enemies closer."
That's Don Corleone, not Sun Tzu.
actually, on XP SP0/SP1 it needs a valid logon. On SP2 it needs a valid logon and, depending on whose reports you believe, either admin privileges or rights to log on locally. So it's hard to believe that SP2 systems will be compromised in the real world by this. I can see SP0/1 systems being hit through a dictionary attack, but it's more work than most worms will bother to do.
>>So if it gets into your internal LAN, you're powerless to block it off, other than to shut down the entire LAN, clean all of the systems without plugging back into the LAN, and bring the whole thing back up.
Or patch your systems
Tell it like it is. Japan's aggression against its neighbors was unprovoked and vicious. They basically enslaved all of Korea.
You can make a good case that we could have handled it better. Perhaps we could have made the first bomb a demonstrative drop, off Tokyo Bay or something like that, preceded by leaflets saying "Look at what we can do." But we had only the two bombs we dropped (3 including the first test shot) and very little capacity to manufacture more. I think by 1949 we only had about 15 bombs. We probably also wanted to demonstrate to others, such as the Russians, that we were willing to use these weapons if we had to.
If, instead of an A-bomb, we had done another firebombing, many of which killed many more people than the A-bomb, there would be little controversy about it today. In the context of the times, using the A-bomb was the right thing to do and it saved lives, especially American lives, but Japanese lives too.
Go read a damn history book before you open your trap. It was Germany and Japan that launched aggressive wars of conquest against their neighbors, not the US. If Germany had done that it *would* have been a war crime.
Lazy bum clockwatcher. Your job is to get your work done.
You think this is making you jump through hoops? For most people it takes less than a minute unless you're completely retarded. And you only have to do it once.
God forbid you should actually have to jump through a hoop some day, you'll learn what real work is.
Actually, one of the questions I have is how new the flaws really are. They have been patched, but how long ago? How much uprading has been done? If it had been widely upgraded I suppose Cisco would have less reason to fear disclosure
So yellow toner/ink should run out faster than you'd think?
For a Philadelphia reference, Veterans Stadium is still there (set up for baseball) and construction on Lincoln Financial Field has not commenced (it actually began on May 7, 2001). The roof of the Wachovia Center says "First Union Center"
My guess is that this photo is from around 2000
right, it would not be. Check the record yourself.
Actually, Microsoft has registered windowsvista.us, not windowsvista.com. The WindowsVista.com registrant is:
Register.com
Domain Registrar
62 Rcom Drive
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B1
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Email: admin@internationaladmin.com
>>your image as a company not giving into the FCC and protecting your customers.. horrible.
You actually expect them to break the law to protect your laziness? They have an obligation to their investors to remain in business too you know. If the FCC shuts them down for non-compliance with rules I guarantee it will serve no cause other than to scare the other vendors into fast compliance.
I'm with you, it should be optional, but it isn't.
>>If a child runs into the interstate and ends up causing an accident that kills 20 people, we don't charge the child with 20 cases of manslaughter.
I think what we have here is a kid throwing nails on the interstate and causing an accident. Sure, he's responsible for all the damage and substantially for damage from worm variants that he didn't create.
And if he was smart enough to create such worms at age 17 he was smart enough to comprehend the damage they could cause. He did it for the notoriety, so he would want the biggest impact he could get.