First off: I have a smartphone, I'm a *nix person, I've been using a Mac since 2006 (great UI) and my phone is a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone.... stupid. I know.
My phones does everything. But really I only use it for phone calls. Often I get a phone call and I can't get it because the software has crashed and I need to reboot the phone. My old Motorola C115 was perfect. It could only really be used as a phone and never crashed.
Because I use a Mac I also carry around an iPod Touch (wlan, Apps, iCal, Music, Videos) and because I'm a photographer I still always carry around a "real" camera (Lumix LX3), and I only carry that camera for snapshots. For the "real thing" I carry much heavier gear.
The only thing I consider removing from this mix is my smartphone. All the other good things are there to stay.
Does this really tell me anything? Not really? What kind of "cyber attacks" are that? SSH break-in attempts? Bots looking for known holes? Script kiddies? Mail relay attempts? Or targeted attempts specifically designed to get access to their system? If I go for the script kiddie/SSH category I get around 25.000 attempts a year on one server alone, according to ossec. This could also just mean that the number of attacks has risen generally and not specifically against the DoD.
It might be, but I have not thought about it consciously.
Anyway - MS can publish its own browser, but I just want them to adhere to standards, like all other browsers do. I'm really not principally against a MS web browser , I'm just against it when companies ignore well established standards.
No, I don't want extra money. I do the optimizing without requesting extra money. But I would want my extra UNPAID free time back which I need to to optimize for IE. It's not about making money, it's about the stupidity of MS that requires me to invest extra time, which I only need for IE compatibility and not for the other four browsers which by default support the standards brought forward by w3c (because they know what standards are, as previously mentioned).
That is exactly what we are doing! We build the necessary workarounds for the end-users, so that the web pages look the same in every browser. BUT making pages work in IE takes extra effort and time (=money) BECAUSE Microsoft doesn't care about standards. I wouldn't care about IE if it would adhere to the standards like every other browser, but MS are so full of themselves that they ignore standards. THAT is the problem, not lazy web developers.
Why can't MS just let IE die. It's been such a fail since around IE 5/6 when websites started to use more CSS and JavaScript (or shall be say JScript?). I don't know how many hours and hours I have lost to IE because it wouldn't render a website correctly which every other freaking browser (FF, Safari, Opera, Chrome) renders correctly. I feel MS should pay compensation to every webdeveloper out there due to all the headaches their complete piece of junk has caused everyone. I'm not a person who normally hates, I'm all for loving, sharing and giving but I hate, hate, hate - HATE! - IE and MS. The only reason why I had to buy Parallels Desktop for my Mac (80€) was so I don't have to turn on my old Windows system to test websites with IE. MS should give me back those 80€, at least.
Well.... I had a Linux Laptop, Pentium 133Mhz - 48mb of RAM, Slackware 10 running until recently. I ran Opera 6 and Firefox 0.7 on it because anything higher wasn't acceptable ----> it was soooooooo slow. Then with all the Javascript and Flash going around which 1. mostly doesn't work on such an old browser version and 2. it nearly kills the machine, if it runs. I really really can't image what wondrous 133Mhz system you had which could do what you say. I ran X with UWM, a small, very very lightweight window manager. Then there was no office suite which would run at an acceptable speed, so I had to use a plain text editor for simple notes, writing LaTeX if I needed a formated output. Maybe if you only use the console and links it might work....
If you take the time and have the language skills to the read the comment you'll see that at least 75% of the comments are related to how people can install XP/Vista or reports by people who report how easy it was to install XP/Vista. People just buy these notebooks to get the cheap hardware without included Microsoft licensing costs and the throw their pirated copy of Windows on them. And those people who actually use Linux will probably install their own preferred flavor of Linux on it. The product description even says "XP/Vista drivers included". So get real - this is not a Linux revolution, people are not switching to Linux, they are just running because these things are cheap! So real lesson we learn: People like to buy cheap notebooks and install Windows on their own, instead of buy more expensive notebooks with the Microsoft licensing costs already included.
Well, the battery for the Canon 5D MkII also contains a chip. If you buy an aftermarket battery for it the battery status won't show on the 5D MkII because the chip as not been cloned yet. So if you buy a battery for the 5D MkII by another brand you'll have to use a special charger and can't use the one from Canon. Most of my friends are now buying the original Canon batteries for their 5D MkII now.
Other than that, the Panasonic LX3 is great compact, which is not included in this firmware "upgrade".
I love libraries, I love the internet. Both have their uses. I find it quite comfortable to search my local library catalog. This is grumpy old man who is sticking to what he knows and is comfortable with. Just ignore it. I know other grumpy old people who hate technology because they don't know it and thus are afraid of it.
Well, what does ist really reveal? People over 40 are more likely to still use snail mail instead of email for private communication and only use e-mail during work? Not that interesting... please move along....
I don't really care about speed, who cares if a website takes 0.1 or 0.15 seconds to load. What I really care about is standards. Sometime in the future I would like to be able to write one CSS layout and one JavaScript without different exceptions for each version of IE. But I think I have to wait for another 10 years for that to happen since right now people are still using IE6...
And well yes, I do care about speed when it comes to JavaScript and IE7 is really slow when it comes to executing JavaScript.
Why not roll up your sleeves? I work at my desk all day (programming) and sometimes take small manual labor jobs or volunteer where I actually get outside. It's really good for a change sometimes.
I've also volunteered my time developing software for non-profit organizations (closed source) but that's always a never ending story. At some point they need new features, need something changed and you'll be the person to speak to at all times. It really pulls you in. Working on open source is a different story, I appreciate doing that.
How are they going to collect that data? What if I run a Server/VPS outside of the UK and tunnel my traffic through that server using SSH? They can't possibly collect that data? The would only see me being connected to a server outside the UK.
If people would actually read the TOS they'd see that many ISP protect themselves against cases like this by adding something like "we try everything we can to backup your data and keep it safe, but if something goes wrong we can't guarantee for backups. It's you responsibility to keep backups of your data." Or often it contains something like "You should check your mail everyday, have to check it at least once a week and all mails older than X may be deleted at any time". Most ISP's have something like this in their TOS, in fact - I don't know any that don't. So: Keep your own Backups! It's really simple, you could just create a second e-mail account somewhere with ANOTHER company than your current e-mail provider -like GMail- and then just forward all your mails there as a backup, or just use IMAP to regularly copy the contents to an IMAP account on another host.
After trying PDA's, online calendars (yahoo, gmx...) I switched to a pen and a Moleskine diary. Always available, no need for backups, no power source of internet needed, no crashes. It's great.
My spam has actually declined from about 100 messages a day to 2-5 messages a day, that inludes the message which get caught by my spam protection. I would estimate that only one or two messages a week get through the Thunderbird protection. Just don't openly publish you address on the web... put up images which include your email, create a little java script which hides all the different parts of your email in different variables... or even putting it online like bla 'at' blup 'dot' com really seems to help.
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I forward everything coming from @hotmail.com and @aol.com to /dev/null
First off: I have a smartphone, I'm a *nix person, I've been using a Mac since 2006 (great UI) and my phone is a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone .... stupid. I know.
My phones does everything. But really I only use it for phone calls. Often I get a phone call and I can't get it because the software has crashed and I need to reboot the phone. My old Motorola C115 was perfect. It could only really be used as a phone and never crashed.
Because I use a Mac I also carry around an iPod Touch (wlan, Apps, iCal, Music, Videos) and because I'm a photographer I still always carry around a "real" camera (Lumix LX3), and I only carry that camera for snapshots. For the "real thing" I carry much heavier gear.
The only thing I consider removing from this mix is my smartphone. All the other good things are there to stay.
If I remember correctly this is what Clifford Stoll did back in the 80s. Nothing new here.
Does this really tell me anything? Not really? What kind of "cyber attacks" are that? SSH break-in attempts? Bots looking for known holes? Script kiddies? Mail relay attempts? Or targeted attempts specifically designed to get access to their system? If I go for the script kiddie/SSH category I get around 25.000 attempts a year on one server alone, according to ossec.
This could also just mean that the number of attacks has risen generally and not specifically against the DoD.
So many unanswered questions ...
Its already in your wage. Really.
It might be, but I have not thought about it consciously.
Anyway - MS can publish its own browser, but I just want them to adhere to standards, like all other browsers do. I'm really not principally against a MS web browser , I'm just against it when companies ignore well established standards.
No, I don't want extra money. I do the optimizing without requesting extra money. But I would want my extra UNPAID free time back which I need to to optimize for IE. It's not about making money, it's about the stupidity of MS that requires me to invest extra time, which I only need for IE compatibility and not for the other four browsers which by default support the standards brought forward by w3c (because they know what standards are, as previously mentioned).
That is exactly what we are doing! We build the necessary workarounds for the end-users, so that the web pages look the same in every browser. BUT making pages work in IE takes extra effort and time (=money) BECAUSE Microsoft doesn't care about standards. I wouldn't care about IE if it would adhere to the standards like every other browser, but MS are so full of themselves that they ignore standards. THAT is the problem, not lazy web developers.
Why can't MS just let IE die. It's been such a fail since around IE 5/6 when websites started to use more CSS and JavaScript (or shall be say JScript?). I don't know how many hours and hours I have lost to IE because it wouldn't render a website correctly which every other freaking browser (FF, Safari, Opera, Chrome) renders correctly. I feel MS should pay compensation to every webdeveloper out there due to all the headaches their complete piece of junk has caused everyone. I'm not a person who normally hates, I'm all for loving, sharing and giving but I hate, hate, hate - HATE! - IE and MS. The only reason why I had to buy Parallels Desktop for my Mac (80€) was so I don't have to turn on my old Windows system to test websites with IE. MS should give me back those 80€, at least.
Well.... I had a Linux Laptop, Pentium 133Mhz - 48mb of RAM, Slackware 10 running until recently. I ran Opera 6 and Firefox 0.7 on it because anything higher wasn't acceptable ----> it was soooooooo slow. Then with all the Javascript and Flash going around which 1. mostly doesn't work on such an old browser version and 2. it nearly kills the machine, if it runs. I really really can't image what wondrous 133Mhz system you had which could do what you say. I ran X with UWM, a small, very very lightweight window manager. Then there was no office suite which would run at an acceptable speed, so I had to use a plain text editor for simple notes, writing LaTeX if I needed a formated output. Maybe if you only use the console and links it might work....
Sorry, I can't believe you.
If you take the time and have the language skills to the read the comment you'll see that at least 75% of the comments are related to how people can install XP/Vista or reports by people who report how easy it was to install XP/Vista. People just buy these notebooks to get the cheap hardware without included Microsoft licensing costs and the throw their pirated copy of Windows on them. And those people who actually use Linux will probably install their own preferred flavor of Linux on it. The product description even says "XP/Vista drivers included". So get real - this is not a Linux revolution, people are not switching to Linux, they are just running because these things are cheap! So real lesson we learn: People like to buy cheap notebooks and install Windows on their own, instead of buy more expensive notebooks with the Microsoft licensing costs already included.
Well, the battery for the Canon 5D MkII also contains a chip. If you buy an aftermarket battery for it the battery status won't show on the 5D MkII because the chip as not been cloned yet. So if you buy a battery for the 5D MkII by another brand you'll have to use a special charger and can't use the one from Canon. Most of my friends are now buying the original Canon batteries for their 5D MkII now.
Other than that, the Panasonic LX3 is great compact, which is not included in this firmware "upgrade".
I love libraries, I love the internet. Both have their uses. I find it quite comfortable to search my local library catalog. This is grumpy old man who is sticking to what he knows and is comfortable with. Just ignore it. I know other grumpy old people who hate technology because they don't know it and thus are afraid of it.
Well, what does ist really reveal? People over 40 are more likely to still use snail mail instead of email for private communication and only use e-mail during work? Not that interesting... please move along....
I don't really care about speed, who cares if a website takes 0.1 or 0.15 seconds to load. What I really care about is standards. Sometime in the future I would like to be able to write one CSS layout and one JavaScript without different exceptions for each version of IE. But I think I have to wait for another 10 years for that to happen since right now people are still using IE6 ...
And well yes, I do care about speed when it comes to JavaScript and IE7 is really slow when it comes to executing JavaScript.
Why not roll up your sleeves? I work at my desk all day (programming) and sometimes take small manual labor jobs or volunteer where I actually get outside. It's really good for a change sometimes.
I've also volunteered my time developing software for non-profit organizations (closed source) but that's always a never ending story. At some point they need new features, need something changed and you'll be the person to speak to at all times. It really pulls you in. Working on open source is a different story, I appreciate doing that.
a Firewire USB dongle, duh!
How are they going to collect that data? What if I run a Server/VPS outside of the UK and tunnel my traffic through that server using SSH? They can't possibly collect that data? The would only see me being connected to a server outside the UK.
1. This is offtopic
2. It's a complete joke as the power savings only affect crt screens, not tft screens.
If people would actually read the TOS they'd see that many ISP protect themselves against cases like this by adding something like "we try everything we can to backup your data and keep it safe, but if something goes wrong we can't guarantee for backups. It's you responsibility to keep backups of your data." Or often it contains something like "You should check your mail everyday, have to check it at least once a week and all mails older than X may be deleted at any time". Most ISP's have something like this in their TOS, in fact - I don't know any that don't. So: Keep your own Backups! It's really simple, you could just create a second e-mail account somewhere with ANOTHER company than your current e-mail provider -like GMail- and then just forward all your mails there as a backup, or just use IMAP to regularly copy the contents to an IMAP account on another host.
You could always phone them ....
After trying PDA's, online calendars (yahoo, gmx...) I switched to a pen and a Moleskine diary. Always available, no need for backups, no power source of internet needed, no crashes. It's great.
So maybe we should all switch to wireless internet.
My spam has actually declined from about 100 messages a day to 2-5 messages a day, that inludes the message which get caught by my spam protection. I would estimate that only one or two messages a week get through the Thunderbird protection. Just don't openly publish you address on the web... put up images which include your email, create a little java script which hides all the different parts of your email in different variables... or even putting it online like bla 'at' blup 'dot' com really seems to help.
can we expect to get this for our home cinema experience?
you could just reverse the name.
xoferif - sound a little like ferret, just more elegant
driberif - sounds good, i think
xineohp
at least these name won't be already taken