An exec at my work was having a problem with powerpoint resizing the fonts on a certain page unexpectedly. Sure enough, I checked the Office2K web page and it was a known bug, fixed in SP2.
I say to the exec, "Aha! This will surely fix your bug" and she said "Yes, please install it post haste, I can not live a second longer while my powerful fonts change so erraticly!". So I diligently installed the SP, which took over an hour of my life. [I even stayed late to do it, as she wanted to take her laptop overseas the next morning.]
The next morning she rings me up at 6am saying "I can't open my mail, when I double click on it, it only gives me the option to save it, not to run it.". I did a bit of investigation, and it turns out that it also installed the latest patches for outlook, including this one.
I explained it all to her, carefully pointing out that this was a benefit as it was more secure, and you also get the benefits of having your powerpoint fixed. [As many as many other bugs in O2K fixed.] She mulled it over for about 2 seconds and said "Remove it".
And so our intrepid IT Support person removed the service pack, and [mentally at least] clubbed the executive around the head.
The first lesson that Tesltra should take from this incident is that unlimited DSL is a user right. Ignore that fact at your own risk.
Are you drunk, stoned or just insane? What right do you have to unlimited DSL? I mean you don't even have the 'right' to a roof over your head, daily meals etc, and you are spouting off about 'unlimited DSL'.
I've been doing Windows and Unix coding for 12+ years now. I've written everything from business applications to device drivers under Windows and Linux is very much easier to code for.
That doesn't mean you know what you're doing. This is not a personal attack, for all I know you could be the best programmer since sliced bread, but even so you will have to demonstrate you know what you are talking about, rather then just saying:
I think they did. This wouldn't have happened if it wern't for the bug in their software. Sure, some celver hacker wrote the worm to exploit it, but it's microsoft's bug. If I run over your dog, and it was due to my negligence, you still get to say "hey that guy ran over my dog". By the same logic, "hey microsoft's fuckup allowed govt servers to fall victim to one of the biggest dd0s attacks ever!".
To which microsoft will say: We have had the patch/hotfix available for X time, your admin are negligent. [And then admin will be fired].
The problem with centralised anything is that quite a lot of people view it as THE MAN taking over.
Take a look at all of the work being done on distributed services at the moment. Just yesterday, there was a post about a distributed version of MS passport [that I admittedly didn't read, but I absorbed the content by osmosis like most slashdot readers]
The store manager told me he has a really hard time keeping the Astra's in stock and it's the #1 seller.Doesn't sound to me like Linux isn't accepted by a good chunk of the masses.
That's only true if the Astra ONLY works on linux. The stats could also mean it is an excellent scanner on windows, macos, beos, VMS, and all of the other OS's as well.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The person supplying the product does not have to customise to suit your needs. If the product does not meet your needs, BUY SOMETHING ELSE.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is out buying CD's again because they can't get teh big free muzaks through napster.
While you are doing the right thing, Joe Sixpack certainly isn't.
I bought my first CD in over 18 months last month, bceause napster wasn't around to get it. [And you can bet that 90% of the population act in exactly the same fashion.]
Im not American, so I can wholeheartedly say. "Fuck your constitution!"
You people take that shit way too seriously; racial profiling, slavery, forfeiture laws, presumnption of innocence (drug testing), McCarthyism...I could go on forever.
The company is an American company, the servers are American servers, deal with it. Or start your own company and servers. [Or perhaps you have realised that copyright laws are just as pervasive in your own country?]
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I say to the exec, "Aha! This will surely fix your bug" and she said "Yes, please install it post haste, I can not live a second longer while my powerful fonts change so erraticly!". So I diligently installed the SP, which took over an hour of my life. [I even stayed late to do it, as she wanted to take her laptop overseas the next morning.]
The next morning she rings me up at 6am saying "I can't open my mail, when I double click on it, it only gives me the option to save it, not to run it.". I did a bit of investigation, and it turns out that it also installed the latest patches for outlook, including this one.
I explained it all to her, carefully pointing out that this was a benefit as it was more secure, and you also get the benefits of having your powerpoint fixed. [As many as many other bugs in O2K fixed.] She mulled it over for about 2 seconds and said "Remove it".
And so our intrepid IT Support person removed the service pack, and [mentally at least] clubbed the executive around the head.
Are you drunk, stoned or just insane? What right do you have to unlimited DSL? I mean you don't even have the 'right' to a roof over your head, daily meals etc, and you are spouting off about 'unlimited DSL'.
Tool.
They do block the netbios ports.
Or the irony that is like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
You complete and utter TOOL.
Just what is wrong with People Eating Tasty Animals anyway? [http://mtd.com/tasty/]
That doesn't mean you know what you're doing. This is not a personal attack, for all I know you could be the best programmer since sliced bread, but even so you will have to demonstrate you know what you are talking about, rather then just saying:
You don't have any 'constitutional rights' on my server or any other privately owned one.
To which microsoft will say: We have had the patch/hotfix available for X time, your admin are negligent. [And then admin will be fired].
Bind.
Take a look at all of the work being done on distributed services at the moment. Just yesterday, there was a post about a distributed version of MS passport [that I admittedly didn't read, but I absorbed the content by osmosis like most slashdot readers]
That's only true if the Astra ONLY works on linux. The stats could also mean it is an excellent scanner on windows, macos, beos, VMS, and all of the other OS's as well.
MMmm.. VMS.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The person supplying the product does not have to customise to suit your needs. If the product does not meet your needs, BUY SOMETHING ELSE.
They don't release for Non-MS because there is no MONEY there.
Start your own hardware company if you don't like it.
Actually, according to the DMCA it's not. Sorry.
Just try reading it some time :)
If you could boot up off the disk, it's unlikely that your BIOS was trashed.
Email filters won't stop that stalker who has been tracking you for 6 months from breaking into your house and setting your TV on fire.
I agree. I am starting to think that gun supporters just MAKE UP THE STATS AS THEY GO ALONG. Give us a bit of proof, eh guys?
You are rigging your stats to prove a point.
Is that professional as in beer or professional as in speech?
It doesn't matter though, the precident has been set. Mp3's are "illegal". It is just a matter of time.
No, that assumption is just as false as the assertion that the remaining 10% are only around to traffic in the 1% of illegal mp3s still available.
While you are doing the right thing, Joe Sixpack certainly isn't.
I bought my first CD in over 18 months last month, bceause napster wasn't around to get it. [And you can bet that 90% of the population act in exactly the same fashion.]
The company is an American company, the servers are American servers, deal with it. Or start your own company and servers. [Or perhaps you have realised that copyright laws are just as pervasive in your own country?]