Compare and contrast iPod launch (wiki - little to no pre-publicity
with the iPhone - where we are seeing every last bit of information from tech specs, usability, form factor down to projected price points. I believe the iPod launch worked because even though there were plenty of detractors, ultimately the device was in peoples hands and proving itself. The pre-launch on the iPhone opens up too much opportunity for competitors to steal ideas and be at market in a similar timeframe, and worse it lets everyone make a decision about the product before they get one in their hands - which is ultimately where hearts and minds are won.
I believe apple makes some of the most user friendly devices around, and they should focus on getting them out to market (and THEN hyping the mother-loving goodness out of them).
Ditto here - for the same reasons. The IE under Mac has official releases have a whole bag of different behaviours than IE under Win, and this method of using IE under Linux suffers the same fate. I've got VM's set up with Win 2k --> Vista, Mac and Linux - each running multiple browsers. I generally only debug using Firefox during development (Firebug ROCKS!) but run the site through the gauntlet before moving it up to production.
The other significant advantage of VMware is my 'development servers' live on my local pc, are an exact mirror of my production environment. No more discovering issues with code that works on one OS/software deployment and does not work under another.
Indeed. Its a shame the moderation on my initial comment is "funny" rather than "insightful"..... but based on this reality (rather than an alternate, nicer reality), I was going for funny.
The other problem will be ME going postal when the impolite person sitting next to me yaks and yaks for 5 hours straight on a flight.
Amen to that - I've done a number of bus trips up and down the east coast of Australia, and you always get some jackass who talk at top volume on their mobiles for hours. Worse is 2 or more people, competing to talk over their neighbour as they infer that what they hear is what the person on the end of the mobile hears. Absolutely frustrating, and thats just in a cabin with 38 people in it. Same experiment in cattle class in a 747-600.... I'm guessing "air rage" will take a spike. Going to make it tough for the air marshalls - is that person a terrorist, or are they just pissed at having to listen to aunt Marie talk about her grandkids?
That being said, anyone doing work on a Maxwell Smart style cone of silence? I'm keen to buy shares:-)
Nice summary of the article (which did drift a bit...) but I wonder where this continued adherance to red = bad green = good comes from? 7-10% of all males are red/green colour blind - red/green on traffic lights is fine, as you have positional information to assist. The URL bar in green or red will look identical to those with colour blindness. And while on the topic, why display the "known phishing" site at all - why not completely block the site and redirect to a guide-to-avoiding phishing, or something? What am I missing???
Ok thats just plain evil - just run it over a few old quotations I've done up previously....... some nice info in there that wasn't supposed to go out to clients!
Other issue I've seen a few times is people send docs with versioning still enabled - you get to see the original document and all the changes made before the finished product. Really interesting for quotes etc where the workings often contain their prices before markup....
Yep - we use PDF for quotes etc where the document doesn't change - but for any document format that needs to retain editability its not an option. Even fewer people have PDF editing software than have Open Office.
Biggest problem with this sort of exploit, is it gets under the radar of people who actually know not to open executables etc that are sent to them - but a document? Unless they are aware of this emploit being "out there" people will recieve an email with "teh funny.doc", "invite to my birthday.doc" or "pics of brittany + paris.doc" and double click without thinking. Boom - instant zombie machine.
So all those family, friends and colleagues who you've (finally) trained not to open funny.exe or funny.scr are all vulnerable to this little beauty.
We use both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice in our company. OO is for all internal documents, and Microsoft Office is used for external client work - purely for interoperability with corporate / government clients. Open Office can save into Microsoft Office format, but there are invariably subtle differences in the final layout - and that is just plain unacceptable.
In the past 12 months a few clients have started using OO and we now share OO documents with them - but they are by far the minority. Hopefully the new "Open" format Microsoft is coming out with will break the barrier down, and allow pixel-perfect interoperability, but until then it is very difficult to operate in a corperate world without the "de-facto" Microsoft Office standard.
My biggest problem with Myth is that the menus are wierd, non intuitive and not customizable.
Actually not true at all - the MythTV menus are fully customisable, and are all written in XML. A great guide on how to modify the menus can be found here.
I have customised my menus to have the top level screen only show the wife-friendly options (Watch TV, watch recordings, listen to music and TV guide) with all the nuts and bolts hidden under an admin menu. Also added a number of functions (update guide, enable/disable ssh, etc) as extra menu options and haven't plugged a keyboard in to the machine for over a year.
Amen to that - last job I had as IT Operations manager for 2 countries, my boss (Asia Pac IT manager) told me I needed to keep "my geek on a leash" after I fixed an issue with a laptop in a C-level meeting I was participating in, rather than calling tech support to come sort the issue out. Take-away message was the 4 days input, business discussions and insights provided were all obliterated by showing I could solve a techincal issue.
Fast forward 1 year, I went out of my way to do NO tech tasks whatsoever (up to and including calling support to fix the most minute issue with my personal hardware) and I get a glowing review from my manager, leading to a promotion to a larger role. My tech quotient stayed the same, management style didn't change but I hid my geek light under a bushel and the feedback from all was that I had "evolved" into a true business manager.
As an aside, out of the company now, and heading up a software development effort where the fact I can roll up my sleeves and code with the best of them is lauded..... from both the management side and my team.
The KFC logo is 65,000 tiles 1 foot by 1 foot - another way of saying 65,000 square feet. The Studebaker logo is approximately (using the Google Earth ruler and rounding down) 2000 feet long and 200 feet high, bringing it in at 400,000 square feet. Thats 6.15 times the size - and its been kicking around for 80+ years now. Significantly more impressive in my book.
I think the author of the article linked and the submitter are both drinking the kool-aid. Kudos to gurudyne for pointing out a bit of prior art thats more impressive to boot.
Even better - i host pics, email and blogs for about 25 close friends and family members on a $10usd/mo plan. Everyone gets a bunch of email addresses, space aplenty to share their family pics, and all I ask them is they buy me a beer or two whenever I catch up with them. Total outlay for me? $120 + about 1/2 an hour showing people how to use the admin panel I set up for them. Benefit to me? About 5-8 beers month on average, and I would have been paying for the hosting just to have my website up anyway. Oh, and as an IT guy the site is a tax deduction anyway:-)
Indeed - makes the whole USA driven pressure on Iran to stop trying to build a nuke look like a case of "do as I say, not as I do". Not the best way to reenforce US credibility on the international scene.
What the hell is this technology doing being deployed in a security role?
The rule is : ALL COOL TECH IS DEVELOPED FOR PORN! It then trickles down into other mundane uses, like saving our lives.
I agree. The fact I spent more time looking at those pics than reading the article.....erm, nevermind.
Of special note, I LOVE the name tag hanging off the exposed cleavage in this picture; http://www.gamecloud.com/img/orig/00/31/89/003.jpg
"Justine Sands. Exhibitor"
Talk about truth in advertising:-)
We currently have 3.2 million property owners in 180 countries on this planet. The list includes two former Presidents of the United States of America and the current President of the United States.
Um, am I the only person who finds this EXTREMELY SCARY? George Dubbyah, "leader of the free world", scammed by this stooge.
For all those Americans wondering about the trade surplus, it's all going to be fine - George is helping out some nice Nigerian businessmen move some funds........
I'm with you on the blackhats quickly identifying a backdoor - but I'd be guessing they would USE it themselves - if they are smart, to deploy alternate backdoors that will stay open once MSFT is forced to close the backdoor.
Its the whitehats who I'd be expecting to find and communicate the backdoor to us. Here's hoping in this scenario they are on their game.
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I call BS on the 1k ms ping... I can ping the USA from Australia between 300ms to 600ms, and anywhere in Australia with a sub 150ms ping. And Australia bigger than the USA, and in addition is a loooooong way from the USA.....
Civilized? That is downright torture for script kiddies... how will they easily press the caps lock key, or shift key to allow them to type ALL CAPS or 1337 $p34k?
Bring it on, I say! And the right pinkie for a second offense!!!
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Compare and contrast
iPod launch (wiki - little to no pre-publicity
with the iPhone - where we are seeing every last bit of information from tech specs, usability, form factor down to projected price points. I believe the iPod launch worked because even though there were plenty of detractors, ultimately the device was in peoples hands and proving itself. The pre-launch on the iPhone opens up too much opportunity for competitors to steal ideas and be at market in a similar timeframe, and worse it lets everyone make a decision about the product before they get one in their hands - which is ultimately where hearts and minds are won.
I believe apple makes some of the most user friendly devices around, and they should focus on getting them out to market (and THEN hyping the mother-loving goodness out of them).
Ditto here - for the same reasons. The IE under Mac has official releases have a whole bag of different behaviours than IE under Win, and this method of using IE under Linux suffers the same fate. I've got VM's set up with Win 2k --> Vista, Mac and Linux - each running multiple browsers. I generally only debug using Firefox during development (Firebug ROCKS!) but run the site through the gauntlet before moving it up to production.
The other significant advantage of VMware is my 'development servers' live on my local pc, are an exact mirror of my production environment. No more discovering issues with code that works on one OS/software deployment and does not work under another.
Indeed. Its a shame the moderation on my initial comment is "funny" rather than "insightful"..... but based on this reality (rather than an alternate, nicer reality), I was going for funny.
Now that she's off, the kida are a cinch - she just has to sit them down and have a stern talking-to.
I mean, thats the new industry standard, isn't it?
That being said, anyone doing work on a Maxwell Smart style cone of silence? I'm keen to buy shares
Nice summary of the article (which did drift a bit...) but I wonder where this continued adherance to red = bad green = good comes from? 7-10% of all males are red/green colour blind - red/green on traffic lights is fine, as you have positional information to assist. The URL bar in green or red will look identical to those with colour blindness. And while on the topic, why display the "known phishing" site at all - why not completely block the site and redirect to a guide-to-avoiding phishing, or something? What am I missing???
Ok thats just plain evil - just run it over a few old quotations I've done up previously....... some nice info in there that wasn't supposed to go out to clients!
Other issue I've seen a few times is people send docs with versioning still enabled - you get to see the original document and all the changes made before the finished product. Really interesting for quotes etc where the workings often contain their prices before markup....
Thanks for the heads up.
Yep - we use PDF for quotes etc where the document doesn't change - but for any document format that needs to retain editability its not an option. Even fewer people have PDF editing software than have Open Office.
Biggest problem with this sort of exploit, is it gets under the radar of people who actually know not to open executables etc that are sent to them - but a document? Unless they are aware of this emploit being "out there" people will recieve an email with "teh funny.doc", "invite to my birthday.doc" or "pics of brittany + paris.doc" and double click without thinking. Boom - instant zombie machine.
So all those family, friends and colleagues who you've (finally) trained not to open funny.exe or funny.scr are all vulnerable to this little beauty.
We use both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice in our company. OO is for all internal documents, and Microsoft Office is used for external client work - purely for interoperability with corporate / government clients. Open Office can save into Microsoft Office format, but there are invariably subtle differences in the final layout - and that is just plain unacceptable.
In the past 12 months a few clients have started using OO and we now share OO documents with them - but they are by far the minority. Hopefully the new "Open" format Microsoft is coming out with will break the barrier down, and allow pixel-perfect interoperability, but until then it is very difficult to operate in a corperate world without the "de-facto" Microsoft Office standard.
Actually not true at all - the MythTV menus are fully customisable, and are all written in XML. A great guide on how to modify the menus can be found here.
I have customised my menus to have the top level screen only show the wife-friendly options (Watch TV, watch recordings, listen to music and TV guide) with all the nuts and bolts hidden under an admin menu. Also added a number of functions (update guide, enable/disable ssh, etc) as extra menu options and haven't plugged a keyboard in to the machine for over a year.
Love that paraphrase - you've given me a mental picture of The Bible meets Bruce Campbell.
Amen to that - last job I had as IT Operations manager for 2 countries, my boss (Asia Pac IT manager) told me I needed to keep "my geek on a leash" after I fixed an issue with a laptop in a C-level meeting I was participating in, rather than calling tech support to come sort the issue out. Take-away message was the 4 days input, business discussions and insights provided were all obliterated by showing I could solve a techincal issue.
Fast forward 1 year, I went out of my way to do NO tech tasks whatsoever (up to and including calling support to fix the most minute issue with my personal hardware) and I get a glowing review from my manager, leading to a promotion to a larger role. My tech quotient stayed the same, management style didn't change but I hid my geek light under a bushel and the feedback from all was that I had "evolved" into a true business manager.
As an aside, out of the company now, and heading up a software development effort where the fact I can roll up my sleeves and code with the best of them is lauded..... from both the management side and my team.
The KFC logo is 65,000 tiles 1 foot by 1 foot - another way of saying 65,000 square feet. The Studebaker logo is approximately (using the Google Earth ruler and rounding down) 2000 feet long and 200 feet high, bringing it in at 400,000 square feet. Thats 6.15 times the size - and its been kicking around for 80+ years now. Significantly more impressive in my book.
I think the author of the article linked and the submitter are both drinking the kool-aid. Kudos to gurudyne for pointing out a bit of prior art thats more impressive to boot.
Even better - i host pics, email and blogs for about 25 close friends and family members on a $10usd/mo plan. Everyone gets a bunch of email addresses, space aplenty to share their family pics, and all I ask them is they buy me a beer or two whenever I catch up with them. Total outlay for me? $120 + about 1/2 an hour showing people how to use the admin panel I set up for them. Benefit to me? About 5-8 beers month on average, and I would have been paying for the hosting just to have my website up anyway. Oh, and as an IT guy the site is a tax deduction anyway :-)
Indeed - makes the whole USA driven pressure on Iran to stop trying to build a nuke look like a case of "do as I say, not as I do". Not the best way to reenforce US credibility on the international scene.
What the hell is this technology doing being deployed in a security role? The rule is : ALL COOL TECH IS DEVELOPED FOR PORN! It then trickles down into other mundane uses, like saving our lives.
I agree. The fact I spent more time looking at those pics than reading the article.....erm, nevermind. Of special note, I LOVE the name tag hanging off the exposed cleavage in this picture; http://www.gamecloud.com/img/orig/00/31/89/003.jpg
"Justine Sands. Exhibitor"
Talk about truth in advertising :-)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/07
All PA haters get those mod points out and mod me to oblivion.
I bow down to your superior logic :-)
Now, how about some ice cream?
No, no, no - I see people making this simple mistake all the time.
Let me correct.
Ice cream sales and shark attacks both increase during summer. I.e. Shark attacks cause Ice cream sales
Simple mistake to make, hope this clears things up.
For all those Americans wondering about the trade surplus, it's all going to be fine - George is helping out some nice Nigerian businessmen move some funds........
I'm with you on the blackhats quickly identifying a backdoor - but I'd be guessing they would USE it themselves - if they are smart, to deploy alternate backdoors that will stay open once MSFT is forced to close the backdoor.
Its the whitehats who I'd be expecting to find and communicate the backdoor to us. Here's hoping in this scenario they are on their game.
I call BS on the 1k ms ping... I can ping the USA from Australia between 300ms to 600ms, and anywhere in Australia with a sub 150ms ping. And Australia bigger than the USA, and in addition is a loooooong way from the USA.....
Civilized? That is downright torture for script kiddies... how will they easily press the caps lock key, or shift key to allow them to type ALL CAPS or 1337 $p34k?
Bring it on, I say! And the right pinkie for a second offense!!!