"Yeah, and since IE came to me free of charge too"
IE cannot come to anyone free of chage now. It sort of used to when it was available for Solaris and a few people could get Solaris for nix. But now you cannot legitimately be using IE without having paid money to Microsoft.
I would lay odds that the web server stats for/. show more IE accesses than any other browser. Would lobe to be proved wrong, I just have the idea that there are more than a few hypocrits out there....
"he rocket was the last to launch the old-fashioned way. What, with boosters, and rockets and things?
Maybe they mean the old fashioned way was "Light Touch Paper and retreat a safe distance" "Safe Distance" in the case of Atlas rockets was 1400 ft and behind a concrete bunker. Maybe they ran out of firing operators.
" Did you read the article? They had it working on Linux and HPUX! So it wasn't just intended for Windows."
I wonder if we are not missing something here.
HP developed the product and made it work on HPUX and Linux. But most servers HP sells run Windows OSes. An HP app that only runs on a minority of servers sold is not going to be poular with marketing.
Maybe I am too much into conspicy stuff, but I have the idea that it is in Symantec's best interests that their clients believe that even the new, upgraded OSes need virus protection.
So they are going to look VERY hard to find reasons why 64 bit XP needs new anti-virus tools.
* Reiser4 is the fastest filesystem, and here are the benchmarks."
All the benchmarks show is that Reiser4 is a bit faster than EXT3. No mention of Sun's new fs (ZFS) or any other. I don't see how it can justifiably called the fastest file system.
" I thought the fire that killed the Apollo astronauts was an oxygen fire." That is half correct. Any fire needs oxidiser and fuel, as do many explosives.
Because the atmosphere inside the capsule was pure oxygen (unlike earth's atmosphere which is about 20% oxygen) then any fuel would be at least 5 times more effective than we would be used to. So all the bits of plastic and other even slightly inflamable stuff in the capsule would have burnt very rapidly.
"There hasn't been a terrorist attack in any of those countries for some time now"
The country under threat is the US, and it is the US that is requiring these security "enhancements". If NZ, Aus etc. do not upgrade their passports, the US will revoke the visa waiver provisions to their citizens.
I spend a large part of my life convincing company executives that they should look at alternatives to Microsoft. Some of those executives will understand the language of the article and it will help them to move, even if only a little.
BTW, one recent hit, 7,000 govt seats onto Mozilla.
"Seriously, what good is a licence from a company that will be bankrupt in a few years from multicast litigation?"
It is likely that the license would survive such a bankruptcy. In the event of SCO going belly up uts assetts would be sold off, including any Intellectual property it may own. The purchaser (which could be Microsoft, Dell, IBM, whoever) would continue to own the licensing rights.
None of the above should be interpreted to mean that I think that that SCO has any intellectual property of value, or that it hold the right to license *unix or anything else.
I think it is a matter of perspective. When you are a senior manager of a company that controls your market and suppliers you may think it logical to assume that US law applies to the rest of the world. I know that may seem a giant leap in logic for many of us, but it is the only way to explain his comment.
"Most serious shops have scheduled maintenance windows for upgrades, app and OS patching"
Yes, they sure do here. About every 3 years hardware gets replaced. Apart from that, the Sun boxes just keep on running. Patches don't require a reboot these days, and defective hardware like memory and disk gets replaced on the fly.
Hmmm, in this part of the western world (New Zealand) it appears that the employment court starts from the position that they are invalid, but then looks to see if some constraint is justified...
Relevance and context would be the important issues.
Any document, email etc. relevant to a business transaction should be kept, not only for IR[DS] for for your own business history.
And destroying business documents, email etc. is fine, as long it is part of normal company or business strategy, and it is legal. For example deleting documents relating to a business transaction over 7 years old would likely be OK. Shredding documents at 3:00 am in the morning relating to a recent questionable transaction likely would not be OK
Probably not. NZ is substantially an agricultural based exporter. The FTA between Aus and USA provides little benefit to the Aus agricultural exporters (and they are not happy).
In addition successive governments in NZ have not shown a desire to effectively become a close partner with USA at all costs, unlike Aus. Examples of this stance are the long standing Nuclear Free Status which effectively locks out US warship visits and more recently NZs non commitment to the US aggression in Iraq (although we do support UN's involvement).
From my perspective, it is not, but that depends what your criteria.
Is it the most secure, No. Is it the easiest to use? Not according to a survey comparing it with Mozilla email in a 7000 seat organisation I know of Is it the cheapest? No, it costs in licensing, training and support (It does not come FREE with Office, it is part of the package) Does it run on many platforms? Is it the most popular? Just, with about 55% of the business email client market, but it is interesting that many organisations licensed to use Office choose to not use Outlook. Does it reliably do the job of composing, delivering, reading and managing email? Just, but my experience is that other email tools do it better.
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"Yeah, and since IE came to me free of charge too"
IE cannot come to anyone free of chage now. It sort of used to when it was available for Solaris and a few people could get Solaris for nix. But now you cannot legitimately be using IE without having paid money to Microsoft.
I Wonder if that is really true.
/. show more IE accesses than any other browser. Would lobe to be proved wrong, I just have the idea that there are more than a few hypocrits out there....
I would lay odds that the web server stats for
"he rocket was the last to launch the old-fashioned way. What, with boosters, and rockets and things?
Maybe they mean the old fashioned way was "Light Touch Paper and retreat a safe distance" "Safe Distance" in the case of Atlas rockets was 1400 ft and behind a concrete bunker. Maybe they ran out of firing operators.
"The NHS has already deployed JDS in its back-office."
/. article is wrong. More likely that they deployed JES (Java Enterprise Server)
Probably not, although I hesitate to suggest that a
" Did you read the article? They had it working on Linux and HPUX! So it wasn't just intended for Windows."
I wonder if we are not missing something here.
HP developed the product and made it work on HPUX and Linux. But most servers HP sells run Windows OSes. An HP app that only runs on a minority of servers sold is not going to be poular with marketing.
Hmmm, tried that. Got "bash: kill: word: no such pid"
Maybe I need a more advanced operating system.
Microsoft are the largest provider of email client (Outlook) and server (Exchange) but they have no where near the dominance of IE.
i ness_or_pleasure_pdf.pdf/
This survey http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/21/email_bus
shows Exhange just over 40% of the business market and Outlook around 50% of the same market. A limited survey of home use I did showed Outlook about 40% with about the same number using Outlook (mostly express).
These numbers are way under the 80%+ of IE, office and Windows OS. So Microsoft does not have the same ability to manipulate the market.
Yes, but....
Maybe I am too much into conspicy stuff, but I have the idea that it is in Symantec's best interests that their clients believe that even the new, upgraded OSes need virus protection.
So they are going to look VERY hard to find reasons why 64 bit XP needs new anti-virus tools.
" Reasons why Reiser4 is great for you:
* Reiser4 is the fastest filesystem, and here are the benchmarks."
All the benchmarks show is that Reiser4 is a bit faster than EXT3. No mention of Sun's new fs (ZFS) or any other. I don't see how it can justifiably called the fastest file system.
"So it's against IE"
It sure is. If it had any balance at all IE would be one of the listed browsers.
Which is unfortunate as any fair comparison of the listed browsers + IE would still achieve the apparent agenda of the site.
"prevents the usual bloodletting a strike would make"
Hardly in the spirit of the original olympics.
Why do I have the feeling that those two do not have /. accounts?
" I thought the fire that killed the Apollo astronauts was an oxygen fire." That is half correct. Any fire needs oxidiser and fuel, as do many explosives.
Because the atmosphere inside the capsule was pure oxygen (unlike earth's atmosphere which is about 20% oxygen) then any fuel would be at least 5 times more effective than we would be used to. So all the bits of plastic and other even slightly inflamable stuff in the capsule would have burnt very rapidly.
And weren't the real terrorists on the 9/11 planes pilots?
And flight attendants are incorruptible. If I wanted to attack a plane I would look carefully at trying to find a compliant air line staff member.
"There hasn't been a terrorist attack in any of those countries for some time now"
The country under threat is the US, and it is the US that is requiring these security "enhancements". If NZ, Aus etc. do not upgrade their passports, the US will revoke the visa waiver provisions to their citizens.
"Which part did you find "seriously useful"?"
I spend a large part of my life convincing company executives that they should look at alternatives to Microsoft. Some of those executives will understand the language of the article and it will help them to move, even if only a little.
BTW, one recent hit, 7,000 govt seats onto Mozilla.
I don't think ease of exploiting Windows is a joke? This is actually a seriously usefull article.
"Seriously, what good is a licence from a company that will be bankrupt in a few years from multicast litigation?"
It is likely that the license would survive such a bankruptcy. In the event of SCO going belly up uts assetts would be sold off, including any Intellectual property it may own. The purchaser (which could be Microsoft, Dell, IBM, whoever) would continue to own the licensing rights.
None of the above should be interpreted to mean that I think that that SCO has any intellectual property of value, or that it hold the right to license *unix or anything else.
I think it is a matter of perspective. When you are a senior manager of a company that controls your market and suppliers you may think it logical to assume that US law applies to the rest of the world. I know that may seem a giant leap in logic for many of us, but it is the only way to explain his comment.
"Most serious shops have scheduled maintenance windows for upgrades, app and OS patching"
Yes, they sure do here. About every 3 years hardware gets replaced. Apart from that, the Sun boxes just keep on running. Patches don't require a reboot these days, and defective hardware like memory and disk gets replaced on the fly.
You mean something like this...
http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~valeri/EMP.html
Hmmm, in this part of the western world (New Zealand) it appears that the employment court starts from the position that they are invalid, but then looks to see if some constraint is justified...
http://www.howtolaw.co.nz/html/ml126.asp
Which sounds rather similar to the other situations cited here.
Relevance and context would be the important issues.
Any document, email etc. relevant to a business transaction should be kept, not only for IR[DS] for for your own business history.
And destroying business documents, email etc. is fine, as long it is part of normal company or business strategy, and it is legal. For example deleting documents relating to a business transaction over 7 years old would likely be OK. Shredding documents at 3:00 am in the morning relating to a recent questionable transaction likely would not be OK
Probably not. NZ is substantially an agricultural based exporter. The FTA between Aus and USA provides little benefit to the Aus agricultural exporters (and they are not happy).
In addition successive governments in NZ have not shown a desire to effectively become a close partner with USA at all costs, unlike Aus. Examples of this stance are the long standing Nuclear Free Status which effectively locks out US warship visits and more recently NZs non commitment to the US aggression in Iraq (although we do support UN's involvement).
"Outlook is by far the best email client ever."
A personal opinion, obviously.
From my perspective, it is not, but that depends what your criteria.
Is it the most secure, No.
Is it the easiest to use? Not according to a survey comparing it with Mozilla email in a 7000 seat organisation I know of
Is it the cheapest? No, it costs in licensing, training and support (It does not come FREE with Office, it is part of the package)
Does it run on many platforms?
Is it the most popular? Just, with about 55% of the business email client market, but it is interesting that many organisations licensed to use Office choose to not use Outlook.
Does it reliably do the job of composing, delivering, reading and managing email? Just, but my experience is that other email tools do it better.