I'm half of 2 person IT department...don't necessarily have 100% to give to keeping up with patches and MS Critical Updates
Are you Serious? How fucking difficult is it to to Start => Windows Update => Product Updates => Start Download.
We run 5 public web servers here, and when I get the Microsoft Security Update e-mail, I run windows update, schedule a reboot for 3am the next day and jobs done!
Honesitly, I have never seen this product before. I've checked out the specs, and it appears that it does not offer a front end like access. (the ability to create data entry forms and reports in the database itself.)
Creating forms in Access is a nice way to knock up a quick, simple, but effective data driven 'application' without having to resort to a real programming language. I have created dozens of such solutions for people, on access 97 and access 2k.
Anyway, that aside, I will download an eval copy because I do like to sound of some of the replication features.
As a single user back end database, it might very way blow Access out of the water for it's "data store", but then again, microsoft offers MSDE for free, which would blow SQL anywhere out of the water.
I always thought it was funny that the only element of Office that _didn't_ start on the Mac is Access, which is widely derided for being such a complete and utter piece of shit
Name one desktop RDBMS with front end that comes even close to being as good as access (and don't say fileMaker, it's about as relational as DbaseII
The problem with access is that there are idiots out there at attempt to run their web sites off it.
. I guess when you want something quickly, FreeBSD with RapidSite/Apache is the way to go.
Please get a grip on reality.
Do you honistly think these guys had their web site all done and decided that because it was somehow faster to get a site up and running on BSD that they created a BSD box, loaded apachie, etc, etc? Only then to setup another box and install Win2k/IIS?
Of course not you moron, the site had moved entire subnets.
For example, if IIS needs access to a database (Sybase, in my case), it will not give up control so that your Terminal Server connection can use it (if you needed to connect to it directly).
Very interesting. IIS can access Sybase over TCP/IP, using a high port number (port number escapes me now), and Terminal Services can also run over TCP/IP, using a different port number, so I'm interested (for my own benefit, where the problem is.
Have you changed the obvious things like use a different communication method between IIS and Sybase?
First off, 99% of the time they're using bogus return addresses, so it's not even possible to send a legitimate reply.
You are right, 99% of the time it's a fake e-mail address, but 100% of the time they are trying sell you something, and because that they almost always give you a method to communicate with them. Most likely it's a web site. (Come to this web site to find out more).
It is then that I actually go to the web site and find as many e-mail addresses as possable (HR, Management, sales, support, webmaster, whatever), and I send them the spam back, with a nice note explaning that I will go home and prey that they get hit by a bus on the way home from work.
If I'm in a bad mood I might even write a script to send them the same e-mail thousands of times, each with a different e-mail address and different subject.
My Point: The "Microsoft is going monopolize the world via a cheap authentication scheme" theory has too many holes and needs to be overhauled if anybody cares to revisit it, which isn't to say that Microsoft doesn't have a truely ingenious idea for monopolizing the world, that we haven't thought of...
It's actually more scary then that!
I'm a developer on a B2B advertising management system. At the moment we have around 300 clients and process around au$4-8mil of orders per year
Our approch is simply. "Make is as easy and efficent for the client as possable. End of story"
Our clients are often constantly logging on and off our system 8 hours a day. We _COULD_ make their life even easer by using a passport style system. When they go to our site, becuase they are logged onto XP, we know exactly who they are, so they can be automaticly logged onto our system, securaly. (cookies are not secure enough)
Will we end up using password authentication. Probably yes. Once the majorty of our clients have passport accounts.
. You could make you're own passport clone with Perl and Apache if you chose to do so.
Of course you can. Like most technology, the key issue is NOT the technical side! Anyway can write a passport type system.
The key issue is getting enough web sites implimenting YOUR solution so that it actually makes a difference
If EVERYONE impliments their own passport type system, what is the good of it, I still need to logon to so many different passport accounts
This is where Microsoft comes in. They have a semi trusted brand (to Jo Sixpack anyway), and enough developers running 'microsoft based solutions' to pull it off.
For example, if IIS needs access to a database (Sybase, in my case), it will not give up control so that your Terminal Server connection can use it (if you needed to connect to it directly).
Are you seriously, or trolling?
I've used terminal services now for the last 2 years, running sessions to a web server, and a development server from home, over a VPN I have never had any issues with it (apeart from trying to install SQL server 7 over it)
I ALWAYS have a copy of SQL enterprise manager open, as well as SQL QA (both using direct connections to the database), as well as my development IDE tools....
All those updates that you mention, yes, they are useful, and yes, they are being used, and no, they *aren't* that needeful, because everybody and their wife test on freshly installed Win95.
Err, what crack have you been smoking?
Take ADO for arguments sake. ADO (ActiveX data objects) is a com based library for accessing all types of databases. Back in Win 95, ADO did not even exist, it was DAO. (think access centric)
100% of applications released in the last 2-3 years will rely on ADO 2.x
ADO is part of the MDAC package (Microsoft data access components), so unless you can install MDAC on said WINE machine, there is no way that an app that is linked to ADO is going to run!
You touches on being able to treat subscribers like Friends/Foes (+1 or -1), but how about the ability to simply ignore a friend/foe or non subscriber???
I want to read at -1, but I also want to not have to look at the crap that Klerck puts out.
Anyone that is silly enough to to run advertising on a site that is decicated to anouncing the latest clever hacks to get around advertising and other such restrictions like the DCMA
should be aware that they are begging to go out of business.
Feb 21 00:49:37 mail proftpd[5523]: mail.[deleted](ABesancon-101-1-4-246.abo.wanadoo.f r[80.11.192.246]) - USER anonymous (Login failed): Can't find user.
This message is repeated like 500 time each day. The sites that I manage are B2B for.au customers, I don't need french people on the site, so I will block them, and all packets from them.
MS should open source 3.1, that would be pretty cool just for the sake of it
Whilst I think that forcing MS to open source win 3.1 would not be good thing, I beleive that at the point that a company is not willing to sell/support old software, the said software should loose it's copyright status.
Just like trademark law, if you don't fight to maintain your trademark, you loose it.
ok well let me help you with that: computers truly aren't a necessity to human survival. neither is sci-fi. they're entertainment. eat it geek boi
Either is housing, because we can live out on the streets, nor gas/electricity because we can eat cold food. Supermarkets? Nah, not nessasery either because we can all grow our own vegies and kill our own cows.
Let me ask you this, if computers are only for entertainment, what do you think would happen if goverments outlawed use of every computer on the plannet? Sent Nazi type squads in to distroy every computer that ever existed?
I'll tell you what, overnight, thousands of companies would go broke, millions of people would be out of jobs, and america would be back in the stone ages before the end of the week.
You see, computers are now in essentual service, they never use to be, but then again electricity never use to be either.
So I have to run to the store, buy something that will cost what.. $2 (I would hope), bring it back, pop it in.. watch.. remove. Place coffee on
Think outside the square son....
Service stations have the DVD's on the counter and sell them for $5 a pop. You fill your car up with gas, see a new release and think "fuck it, I don't have anything on tonight, may as well buy this one"...
In New York they can't increase the rent on you, so you have little old ladies who pay 20 bucks a month for an apartment. Do you think the landlord can survive that way?
In.au you can only increase rents once per year, and only if the fixed term of the lease agreement has expired. You also can not increase the rent by an unfair amount. What's unfair? If the tenant thinks it's unfair then someone from the Office of Fair Trading comes along and makes that decision.
Now getting back on-topic. What you have just demonstrated is that goverment regulation, when not well thought out (aka the New York rental market) is a BAD thing. But goverment regulation which is well thought out (aka the.au rental market) is a good thing.
Therefor, goverments should regulate terms of the EULA, as long as the regulations are well thought out.
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I'm half of 2 person IT department...don't necessarily have 100% to give to keeping up with patches and MS Critical Updates
Are you Serious? How fucking difficult is it to to Start => Windows Update => Product Updates => Start Download.
We run 5 public web servers here, and when I get the Microsoft Security Update e-mail, I run windows update, schedule a reboot for 3am the next day and jobs done!
Sybase SQL Anywhere, formerly Watcom SQL. Blows Access completely to smithereens
Honesitly, I have never seen this product before. I've checked out the specs, and it appears that it does not offer a front end like access. (the ability to create data entry forms and reports in the database itself.)
Creating forms in Access is a nice way to knock up a quick, simple, but effective data driven 'application' without having to resort to a real programming language. I have created dozens of such solutions for people, on access 97 and access 2k.
Anyway, that aside, I will download an eval copy because I do like to sound of some of the replication features.
As a single user back end database, it might very way blow Access out of the water for it's "data store", but then again, microsoft offers MSDE for free, which would blow SQL anywhere out of the water.
I always thought it was funny that the only element of Office that _didn't_ start on the Mac is Access, which is widely derided for being such a complete and utter piece of shit
Name one desktop RDBMS with front end that comes even close to being as good as access (and don't say fileMaker, it's about as relational as DbaseII
The problem with access is that there are idiots out there at attempt to run their web sites off it.
MS:0 The rest of us:1
According to StatlineBusiness.com:
MS: 31.6 BILLION The rest of us: not much
. I guess when you want something quickly, FreeBSD with RapidSite/Apache is the way to go.
Please get a grip on reality.
Do you honistly think these guys had their web site all done and decided that because it was somehow faster to get a site up and running on BSD that they created a BSD box, loaded apachie, etc, etc? Only then to setup another box and install Win2k/IIS?
Of course not you moron, the site had moved entire subnets.
For example, if IIS needs access to a database (Sybase, in my case), it will not give up control so that your Terminal Server connection can use it (if you needed to connect to it directly).
Very interesting. IIS can access Sybase over TCP/IP, using a high port number (port number escapes me now), and Terminal Services can also run over TCP/IP, using a different port number, so I'm interested (for my own benefit, where the problem is.
Have you changed the obvious things like use a different communication method between IIS and Sybase?
I'll sell them my encrypted secrets for only 1 million dollars!
It's a win-win situation, I get a million dollars, and they save many many millions of dollars.
First off, 99% of the time they're using bogus return addresses, so it's not even possible to send a legitimate reply.
You are right, 99% of the time it's a fake e-mail address, but 100% of the time they are trying sell you something, and because that they almost always give you a method to communicate with them. Most likely it's a web site. (Come to this web site to find out more).
It is then that I actually go to the web site and find as many e-mail addresses as possable (HR, Management, sales, support, webmaster, whatever), and I send them the spam back, with a nice note explaning that I will go home and prey that they get hit by a bus on the way home from work.
If I'm in a bad mood I might even write a script to send them the same e-mail thousands of times, each with a different e-mail address and different subject.
My Point: The "Microsoft is going monopolize the world via a cheap authentication scheme" theory has too many holes and needs to be overhauled if anybody cares to revisit it, which isn't to say that Microsoft doesn't have a truely ingenious idea for monopolizing the world, that we haven't thought of...
It's actually more scary then that!
I'm a developer on a B2B advertising management system. At the moment we have around 300 clients and process around au$4-8mil of orders per year
Our approch is simply. "Make is as easy and efficent for the client as possable. End of story"
Our clients are often constantly logging on and off our system 8 hours a day. We _COULD_ make their life even easer by using a passport style system. When they go to our site, becuase they are logged onto XP, we know exactly who they are, so they can be automaticly logged onto our system, securaly. (cookies are not secure enough)
Will we end up using password authentication. Probably yes. Once the majorty of our clients have passport accounts.
. You could make you're own passport clone with Perl and Apache if you chose to do so.
Of course you can. Like most technology, the key issue is NOT the technical side! Anyway can write a passport type system.
The key issue is getting enough web sites implimenting YOUR solution so that it actually makes a difference
If EVERYONE impliments their own passport type system, what is the good of it, I still need to logon to so many different passport accounts
This is where Microsoft comes in. They have a semi trusted brand (to Jo Sixpack anyway), and enough developers running 'microsoft based solutions' to pull it off.
For example, if IIS needs access to a database (Sybase, in my case), it will not give up control so that your Terminal Server connection can use it (if you needed to connect to it directly).
Are you seriously, or trolling?
I've used terminal services now for the last 2 years, running sessions to a web server, and a development server from home, over a VPN I have never had any issues with it (apeart from trying to install SQL server 7 over it)
I ALWAYS have a copy of SQL enterprise manager open, as well as SQL QA (both using direct connections to the database), as well as my development IDE tools....
All those updates that you mention, yes, they are useful, and yes, they are being used, and no, they *aren't* that needeful, because everybody and their wife test on freshly installed Win95.
Err, what crack have you been smoking?
Take ADO for arguments sake. ADO (ActiveX data objects) is a com based library for accessing all types of databases. Back in Win 95, ADO did not even exist, it was DAO. (think access centric)
100% of applications released in the last 2-3 years will rely on ADO 2.x
ADO is part of the MDAC package (Microsoft data access components), so unless you can install MDAC on said WINE machine, there is no way that an app that is linked to ADO is going to run!
I've got Karma to burn over this one.
Just to put it at +2.
Here is the source code to fix page widening, taken straight from sourceforge.net.
INSERT INTO content_filters (regex, form, modifier, field, ratio, minimum_match, minimum_length, err_message) VALUES ('(?:\\s+\\.[^\\s]+)', 'comments', 'gi', 'postercomment', 0.0000, 5, 0, 'That\'s an awful lot of dotfiles there, Klerck.');
You touches on being able to treat subscribers like Friends/Foes (+1 or -1), but how about the ability to simply ignore a friend/foe or non subscriber???
I want to read at -1, but I also want to not have to look at the crap that Klerck puts out.
Your attention please;
Anyone that is silly enough to to run advertising on a site that is decicated to anouncing the latest clever hacks to get around advertising and other such restrictions like the DCMA
should be aware that they are begging to go out of business.Feb 21 00:49:37 mail proftpd[5523]: mail.[deleted](ABesancon-101-1-4-246.abo.wanadoo.f r[80.11.192.246]) - USER anonymous (Login failed): Can't find user.
.au customers, I don't need french people on the site, so I will block them, and all packets from them.
This message is repeated like 500 time each day. The sites that I manage are B2B for
Same here. My portsentry logs are filled with wandaoo.fr. What is up with that?
Me too!
At least 5 times a day from wandaoo.fr. I think I'll set me firewall up to just drop all attempted connections from there.
if the artist gets a buck of it they're way ahead of the curve.
If the artist sells 2 million CD's, even at $1, they are well, well ahead.
the problem with saying "Spammer must be stopped" is the fact that different typs of spammer may violate different law.
The easy way to stop them is create a non spam law, then they all break the same law.
MS should open source 3.1, that would be pretty cool just for the sake of it
Whilst I think that forcing MS to open source win 3.1 would not be good thing, I beleive that at the point that a company is not willing to sell/support old software, the said software should loose it's copyright status.
Just like trademark law, if you don't fight to maintain your trademark, you loose it.
This is not a troll or flamebait, I just want to know...
They're good choices for immersion cooling because they're chemically inert
then you sayThese liquids can be used because gases like oxygen and CO2 are highly soluble in PFC.
If they are inert then how are O2 & CO2 soluble in it?
ok well let me help you with that: computers truly aren't a necessity to human survival. neither is sci-fi. they're entertainment. eat it geek boi
Either is housing, because we can live out on the streets, nor gas/electricity because we can eat cold food. Supermarkets? Nah, not nessasery either because we can all grow our own vegies and kill our own cows.
Let me ask you this, if computers are only for entertainment, what do you think would happen if goverments outlawed use of every computer on the plannet? Sent Nazi type squads in to distroy every computer that ever existed?
I'll tell you what, overnight, thousands of companies would go broke, millions of people would be out of jobs, and america would be back in the stone ages before the end of the week.
You see, computers are now in essentual service, they never use to be, but then again electricity never use to be either.
So I have to run to the store, buy something that will cost what.. $2 (I would hope), bring it back, pop it in.. watch.. remove. Place coffee on
Think outside the square son....
Service stations have the DVD's on the counter and sell them for $5 a pop. You fill your car up with gas, see a new release and think "fuck it, I don't have anything on tonight, may as well buy this one"...
Pathetic anonymous troll. I can switch from McAfee to Symantec several times a day -- not once every 4 years
...and you can switch from Microsoft Office XP or Windows to....
That IS the point. Microsoft has created an illegal monopoly, and as such market forces can not affect it like they do McAfee.
So what is the answer, do we just let microsoft go on fucking everyone over?
What if the EULA said that the software was only valid for a year. After that year the software timebomed, what then?
In New York they can't increase the rent on you, so you have little old ladies who pay 20 bucks a month for an apartment. Do you think the landlord can survive that way?
In .au you can only increase rents once per year, and only if the fixed term of the lease agreement has expired. You also can not increase the rent by an unfair amount. What's unfair? If the tenant thinks it's unfair then someone from the Office of Fair Trading comes along and makes that decision.
Now getting back on-topic. What you have just demonstrated is that goverment regulation, when not well thought out (aka the New York rental market) is a BAD thing. But goverment regulation which is well thought out (aka the .au rental market) is a good thing.
Therefor, goverments should regulate terms of the EULA, as long as the regulations are well thought out.