Well... there is a percentage that are slackers...
But as a Network Admin, I averaged about 70+ hours a week while getting paid for only 40. The overtime was looked upon as REQUIRED, and it only 1/3 of it was ever rewarded in bonuses/raises.
For 3 years in a row, I totalled nearly 450 to 500 hours overtime. My managers response to that was... "Oh the network just runs itself!" or "Some people need more time to manage their workload".
I was not making mega money... I was under the norm. I was finally making 40K after 15 years! Then for my 15th anniversary I was handed my walking papers. Thanks AOL/TW.:)
I'm 35, and have 20 years experience programming many languages (about 14 or more.. I forget there were so many). I've picked up Perl and Python, and am now teaching myself C++, which I am learning very rapidly.
Although I have experience with Win3x/95/98/NT, Solaris, DG/UX, Linux, and AOS/VS, then programming languages like COBOL, QBASIC, BASICPDS, VB3/4/5, Pascal, Assembler, Many shell languages, form and reporting languages. Networking architectures, RS232/422 cabling, Thick Ethernet, Hubs/Switches/Routers, Server Installs/Upgrades, PC Installs/Upgrades, different TCP/IP protocols, Network software...
I get responses like, your qualifications are impressive... but.. (in other words) we are looking to pay someone not more than 25K.
Sure there are some new very limited skilled programmers (the dinosaur at work calls them Jeeps), but experience does mean trouble shooting experience. You know where the problems in the road lie ahead and plan for it.
This is what those companies are finding out the off-shore can't handle... for the time... so some jobs are coming back. I have seen job offers stating they have already attempted Indy and Philippiny programs, and would like to invest in quality support instead of quantity.
My experience with off-shore is not well. Many times, crucial production runs were just dropped by accident or they were off doing something else. You add up the losses from a few of those dropped balls... and any savings from off-shore now makes on-shore look MUCH more favorable.
I dont see how accurate the IP address really is. Especially with DHCP, and all you need to do is release your lease and request a new one. You get a new IP... this can be set on a crontab.
Also, this user has had ample time to figure out it may be him, so he dumps the MP3s off his drive. Defrags the drive, or creates some large ISO images... bingo.. all data traces gone.
Even with spoofing today... what if he used someone elses computer as the storage device for people to download from while he/she was doing it remotely.
No wonder why Verzion doesnt want to turn it over - they are no longer using static internal addresses - blame dynamic IPs on that.:)
You are so right. Just drive on a major highway and you are distracted with so many billboards. I noticed the other day, that TV stations are now increasing the size of the friggin thing in the corner of the tv. The item that turns off when a commercial is on..:) Anyway, pretty soon they will use this space for ads. Its only a matter of time, before the content that we actually do see, is about 1/2 to 1/3 screen - the rest will be ads.
I can't even watch a baseball game... the batter gets up to bat, and all you see is ads in your face, you can even pay attention to the batter... forget the ump and catcher.. if you just think they are they, you see the ads.
I've noticed they stepped up the ads on the net, by shoving an ad in your face, some sites generate a new ad in 30 seconds - I guess it checks to see if you closed it out. Some wont even allow you to close it out, as soon as close is clicked you get another ad.
This is worse than TV, at least on TV you can change the channel. I think these filters are our remote controls to change channel.
Want to see something interesting, next time during one of your favorite shows, count how many car commercials you see in 1 hour. Note how many say you need, you want, you cant live without it. One nite I showed my kids, there were 26 car commercials in a 1 hour span.
Ya think the auto industry wants you to buy a car???:)
Do like investors on wall st are telling everyone... DONT be afraid to go out and shop, buy things. Uh... with what... Its amazing they forget they laid off a few million people, unemployment is at what 9% now.. national averages are crap.. since when are surveys based on 100 people... I seen some USA Today polls of 43 people, say this is how the people in the US feel about this topic... Uh.. Show me numbers like, 1/3 the population feels this way..
Man, you must have a HUGE Penis cuz I think I know where all your MAJOR brain cells ended up!
HAHAHA I'm still laughing....
Typical response of a Totally Clueless person. My advice, pack the PC up, and ship it back to Gateway, Dell, or where ever you bought your PRE-PACKAGED PC from. Go back to sheep herding.
My thoughts before I saw the movie, "Pearl Harbor: This time we Win the war!"
It sure seemed like we kicked ass at PH! Man, it was unreal how good we were. And got to get back at Tokyo, well the last part did take 6 months to accomplish, although in the movie it seemed like only a few days.
I just love how our HERO, single handedly masterminded ALL these events. I laughed when I saw his buddy knocking up his fiance. Man, what did she mourn, 2 weeks? Glad she waited.
I heard of some women actually waiting 5 to 10 years to move on after something that tragic and close to the heart. Reminded me of that Tom Hanks movie, Castaway! Another movie where the girl moved on after 1 year.
Oh well, in the words of one visionary, Frank Zappa, "What we got here, is American made, its a little cheezy, but nicely displayed!":)
Well maybe the Russians know something the Americans don't. Duct Tape and Wire sure worked out for 15 years. We can't even make a car last more than 5 years without every friggin thing needing repair or replacement.
But hey, if it ain't Uh-Merican, IT CAN'T BE GUD!
What about Canada and Germany? Without Canadian and German scientists, most of NASA would be still sitting with thumbs up their ass.
If the Canadian government believed in its scientists at the time, and funded them, the space race would have been MUCH different. I think Canada would of been in space way before the US would have ever been. But the Canadian govt decided not to support them, so many of the scientists joined NASA. (The lunar lander was designed by Canadian scientists. So were other major space designs.)
Get a clue and read for a change. Stop using the Boob-Tube for your education!
Commodore:
Hmm... maybe ignoring their userbase, eliminating customer service for anything less than an Amiga, overpricing the Amiga product - making the IBM PC look like a better deal when it came to overall investment.
Maybe reducing the components to cheaper products, that didn't last as long as their predecessors. Keeping the price high, and milking the C=64 line for everything they could. Eliminating the C=128, forcing people to buy integrated equipment the C=128D with a 1571 drive encased.
Deciding to cut off interaction with it's thousands of User Groups, because it wanted to focus on Amiga ONLY products.
I think there was a lot more there, then people not buying the hardware. Commodore users were loyal, and when a new CEO took over, he took advantage of the large userbase.
Hmm.. sort of what IBM did, and now Microsoft has done. Loki is not it the same ballpark.
Man - how many years did it take Micorsoft to get where it is with gaming? They have been at it for 20+ years... and how long have Linux games been around, or ANY Unix games that graphically intense???
You want instant gratification! So it's taking the Linux crowd a few years, it's taken Microsoft much longer. How many DOS games can you play in any version of Windows - very few. How many games require you to reboot your machine so it can run in a protected DOS mode??? Why because DOS games do not know how to share memory properly, they want it ALL!
Within the last 3 years, I've seen Linux gaming grow in leaps and bounds. Where else can you play Quake2, download files off the net, and play MP3s at the same time. Funny thing, you can even play multiple MP3s at one time, a feat that is nearly impossible in ANY Windows system.
Well I guess the Power and Light industry appreciated the one fool, Thomas Edison, for experimenting on making a better light bulb - blowing up bulbs and frying other components.
Thats called innovation, without it we as humans might as well crawl back into our caves and wither away.
Did anyone ever think it might be a QA flaw from SONY cutting corners to increase profits. Maybe they up'ed the *allowable* amount of garbage on a CD. In turn, this just slows the CD reading capabilities, but thats what buffers are for.
Not true ass wipe. Ever try compiling a 16bit app on an NT system. 90% of the time it won't. Well it will compile, just not run. OR it will run to a certain point and die with a nice segfault error that leaves you clueless to where the error occured and why.
I've seen win3.1 apps compile fine on win95, but not on NT. And to boot, the 32bit stuff that did compile on 95 and NT, did not compile on 2K.
Microsoft has a habit of changing the API as they see fit. They don't give a shit if it crashes your apps as long as it runs theirs.
Microsoft reminds me of unskilled worker who uses adhoc solutions, instead of just fixing the thing the right way the first time.
I agree. Many of us have been REAL collectors for many years, I myself have been collecting CD's and have nearly 1,000 CDs. I have nearly 5,000 MP3s on my system, but they are ripped by me from the CD's I bought and paid for.
I had other artists on 8-track, Cassette, and Album. They are the one's I download, because I'd like to hear them since I don't own a phonograph any more and the *Record Industry* decided those albums and cassettes were not worthy to be reproduced onto CD.
I enjoy my MP3 player in the car, I love taking 50 cent CDs and not having to worry - on NO! you stepped on my CD or Sat on it, or it got scratched by accident. I had had real CD's get stolen, and beatup that way.
Another thing, PS/2 games should be able to make backups, because kids are kids.. $50 a game, I rather have the kids play with a 50 cents CD - how many times do you tell them take care of the CD.. don't toss it around. My son lost a few games due to scratches.
Also, I used to work for the record industry in a manufacturing plant, I know what they have been doing over the past years. Making components cheaper and cheaper, yet the price has increased on individual units instead of decreasing. For example, pick up a CD from say 1986, and feel the weight. Now pick up a CD from 2000... you can tell the difference. Crap is crap. I know in the eraly years they used to do 12x oversampling, but that became too expensive by the year 1995. The Mfg quality at our plant was surpassing Sony and Phillips, something like 98% overall. Then the profit gouging hit, QA and R&D were cut. Their attitude changed from, lets provide this service for the highend consumer, so our product sounds great in high end equipment. So the audiophiles will tout our product. To, the fucking consumer can't tell the difference, fuck them, they can't tell the difference from sampling rate to another. We work on averages, the average piece of hardware in a persons home doesn't do more than 4x sampling (at the time) so thats what we focused on. Now that players are coming out that have higher sampling rates... they skip more often, because they can't read the crap the industry is putting out.
I have CD's bought after 95 that I can't play on car stereos - too light, skip on the first 3 tracks, or wont play on the last tracks. I've seen CD's that you can see thru, meaning they are now thinning down the aluminum to a point that is just above minimum allowance. Also, I seen were the spincoating on the CD's have been distributed unevenly, making the CD's wobble more which cause it to skip - or just sit there and not do anything.
All I know is the Record Industry is out to screw the consumer anyway they can. Heck, they have been doing it from 85 when the first CD came out. Even then it only cost about $.35 to make a CD, and they charged $18. Reason was, because CD's meant piracy could be done more easily and yeild better results.... hmm. that was in the early 80's when artists were freaking out over CD's.. and demanded a Protection Amount, to cover the Future Piracy that would occur when CD's were released. Hmm... Remember when albums and cassettes were $8. They doubled the price of the CD, because it was better quality and would last longer.
Checkout QCAD for Linux. There are some other CAD's that are now porting to Linux that are beginning to mature. Some with basic options are free, but the more advanced stuff costs maybe $120... or so. Do a search on CAD Linux... there are about 5 or 6 candidates.
Funny, I remember uttering the same thing about web pages. Until Java was released... I thought... OH Fuk!!!! It will only be a matter of time before they find a backdoor and we are screwed.
I still don't use HTML mail... I saw the Exchange servers usage grow when the upper management wanted to use HTML enabled mail because it looked pretty.
Well.. On an old text-based system (Banyan's Beyond Mail) I was able to place 130 users on a 1GB drive (with maybe 150MB dedicated to mailboxes). When Exchange moved in, we had to bring in 20GB drives, and even that wasn't enough... 300 users on one server (we had to recycle the older/newer servers for NT) can sure take up space. Even user network drives swelled beyond capacity. Oh well.. but we had pretty mail!:)
Thankfully, I work at a new company and their policy is - NO MS OUTLOOK PERIOD. I smiled. I like using Netscape IMAP mail with the Exchange server. The Exchange part still sux, but at least its not Outlook.
I use Opera as the browser of choice, cuz Netscape just keeps crapping over itself when it comes to a page designed for MS's flavor of javascript. People who use FrontPage, need to get a life and learn how to write documents, not pages that attract someones interest for more than 5 seconds. If the page is a slow loader - I'm gone!:)
Actually,
I'm surprised no one has included a list of 100 to 500 hotmail accounts in the virus. That way they can mail one to your friend and one to a Microsoft Hotmail account.
The virus that keeps on giving!
For once it would be nice for Microsoft to feel the brunt of these attacks.
Uh... wakeup... You are thinking of the innocent days of viruses where it often required user intervention to infect the system via reboot (left floppy in drive A:) or run an EXE by mistake.
Thanks to Microsoft's innovation, and a few behind the scene flaws or features, a macro-virus can now infect the system without the user even knowing an infected letter had arrived. By then its too late.
I've seen it where as soon as the letter arrived in the mailbox, the machine was infected. This was due to a buffer overrun which allowed the mail to automatically launch the attachment.
Heck you don't even need Outlook, just run ICQ and someone can drop a trojan on you so fast, you won't know what hit you - until that day you see "You Are Now Owned Asshole!".
Subseven and a few others are a real pain to get off a system. I saw a Win98 machine rendered totally useless, even so the format and rebooting did not work. I had to delete the partitions and then rebuild. I found 7 trojans on that system. All the person ran was ICQ!
So that line about Dont Run Attachments is kind of outdated... Users are held defenseless when the company that writes the OS... calls the shots.
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Well... there is a percentage that are slackers...
:)
But as a Network Admin, I averaged about 70+ hours a week while getting paid for only 40. The overtime was looked upon as REQUIRED, and it only 1/3 of it was ever rewarded in bonuses/raises.
For 3 years in a row, I totalled nearly 450 to 500 hours overtime. My managers response to that was... "Oh the network just runs itself!" or "Some people need more time to manage their workload".
I was not making mega money... I was under the norm. I was finally making 40K after 15 years! Then for my 15th anniversary I was handed my walking papers. Thanks AOL/TW.
I'm 35, and have 20 years experience programming many languages (about 14 or more.. I forget there were so many). I've picked up Perl and Python, and am now teaching myself C++, which I am learning very rapidly.
Although I have experience with Win3x/95/98/NT, Solaris, DG/UX, Linux, and AOS/VS, then programming languages like COBOL, QBASIC, BASICPDS, VB3/4/5, Pascal, Assembler, Many shell languages, form and reporting languages. Networking architectures, RS232/422 cabling, Thick Ethernet, Hubs/Switches/Routers, Server Installs/Upgrades, PC Installs/Upgrades, different TCP/IP protocols, Network software...
I get responses like, your qualifications are impressive... but.. (in other words) we are looking to pay someone not more than 25K.
Sure there are some new very limited skilled programmers (the dinosaur at work calls them Jeeps), but experience does mean trouble shooting experience. You know where the problems in the road lie ahead and plan for it.
This is what those companies are finding out the off-shore can't handle... for the time... so some jobs are coming back. I have seen job offers stating they have already attempted Indy and Philippiny programs, and would like to invest in quality support instead of quantity.
My experience with off-shore is not well. Many times, crucial production runs were just dropped by accident or they were off doing something else. You add up the losses from a few of those dropped balls... and any savings from off-shore now makes on-shore look MUCH more favorable.
budman
I dont see how accurate the IP address really is. Especially with DHCP, and all you need to do is release your lease and request a new one. You get a new IP... this can be set on a crontab.
:)
Also, this user has had ample time to figure out it may be him, so he dumps the MP3s off his drive. Defrags the drive, or creates some large ISO images... bingo.. all data traces gone.
Even with spoofing today... what if he used someone elses computer as the storage device for people to download from while he/she was doing it remotely.
No wonder why Verzion doesnt want to turn it over - they are no longer using static internal addresses - blame dynamic IPs on that.
Those 4 little register settings in Windows that allow dialups to get a boost. Changing the transmission window size, and a few others.
:)
You know the infamous $29 Internet SpeedUp applications.
Wouldn't there be a speed enhancment over cable too? Wouldn't pages load even faster??
budman
You are so right. Just drive on a major highway and you are distracted with so many billboards. I noticed the other day, that TV stations are now increasing the size of the friggin thing in the corner of the tv. The item that turns off when a commercial is on.. :) Anyway, pretty soon they will use this space for ads. Its only a matter of time, before the content that we actually do see, is about 1/2 to 1/3 screen - the rest will be ads.
:)
I can't even watch a baseball game... the batter gets up to bat, and all you see is ads in your face, you can even pay attention to the batter... forget the ump and catcher.. if you just think they are they, you see the ads.
I've noticed they stepped up the ads on the net, by shoving an ad in your face, some sites generate a new ad in 30 seconds - I guess it checks to see if you closed it out. Some wont even allow you to close it out, as soon as close is clicked you get another ad.
This is worse than TV, at least on TV you can change the channel. I think these filters are our remote controls to change channel.
Want to see something interesting, next time during one of your favorite shows, count how many car commercials you see in 1 hour. Note how many say you need, you want, you cant live without it. One nite I showed my kids, there were 26 car commercials in a 1 hour span.
Ya think the auto industry wants you to buy a car???
Do like investors on wall st are telling everyone... DONT be afraid to go out and shop, buy things. Uh... with what... Its amazing they forget they laid off a few million people, unemployment is at what 9% now.. national averages are crap.. since when are surveys based on 100 people... I seen some USA Today polls of 43 people, say this is how the people in the US feel about this topic... Uh.. Show me numbers like, 1/3 the population feels this way..
Sorry bout the soapbox...
Bud
LOLOLOLOL
ROTFLMAO!!!
Man, you must have a HUGE Penis cuz I think I know where all your MAJOR brain cells ended up!
HAHAHA I'm still laughing....
Typical response of a Totally Clueless person. My advice, pack the PC up, and ship it back to Gateway, Dell, or where ever you bought your PRE-PACKAGED PC from. Go back to sheep herding.
LOL... so true!
:)
My thoughts before I saw the movie, "Pearl Harbor: This time we Win the war!"
It sure seemed like we kicked ass at PH! Man, it was unreal how good we were. And got to get back at Tokyo, well the last part did take 6 months to accomplish, although in the movie it seemed like only a few days.
I just love how our HERO, single handedly masterminded ALL these events. I laughed when I saw his buddy knocking up his fiance. Man, what did she mourn, 2 weeks? Glad she waited.
I heard of some women actually waiting 5 to 10 years to move on after something that tragic and close to the heart. Reminded me of that Tom Hanks movie, Castaway! Another movie where the girl moved on after 1 year.
Oh well, in the words of one visionary, Frank Zappa, "What we got here, is American made, its a little cheezy, but nicely displayed!"
Well maybe the Russians know something the Americans don't. Duct Tape and Wire sure worked out for 15 years. We can't even make a car last more than 5 years without every friggin thing needing repair or replacement.
But hey, if it ain't Uh-Merican, IT CAN'T BE GUD!
What about Canada and Germany? Without Canadian and German scientists, most of NASA would be still sitting with thumbs up their ass.
If the Canadian government believed in its scientists at the time, and funded them, the space race would have been MUCH different. I think Canada would of been in space way before the US would have ever been. But the Canadian govt decided not to support them, so many of the scientists joined NASA. (The lunar lander was designed by Canadian scientists. So were other major space designs.)
Get a clue and read for a change. Stop using the Boob-Tube for your education!
Doesn't Novell own like 51% of Caldera?
haha "Stupid User" or BDU-enhanced utilities (Brain Dead Users). Man I can't wait for "WipeMyAss v1.0"...
Microsoft XP - the Microsoft experience - LOL - where's the acid, I need a break from the dia-books of how it I should reconsider shutting down.
Commodore: Hmm... maybe ignoring their userbase, eliminating customer service for anything less than an Amiga, overpricing the Amiga product - making the IBM PC look like a better deal when it came to overall investment.
Maybe reducing the components to cheaper products, that didn't last as long as their predecessors. Keeping the price high, and milking the C=64 line for everything they could. Eliminating the C=128, forcing people to buy integrated equipment the C=128D with a 1571 drive encased.
Deciding to cut off interaction with it's thousands of User Groups, because it wanted to focus on Amiga ONLY products.
I think there was a lot more there, then people not buying the hardware. Commodore users were loyal, and when a new CEO took over, he took advantage of the large userbase.
Hmm.. sort of what IBM did, and now Microsoft has done. Loki is not it the same ballpark.
Man - how many years did it take Micorsoft to get where it is with gaming? They have been at it for 20+ years... and how long have Linux games been around, or ANY Unix games that graphically intense???
:)
You want instant gratification! So it's taking the Linux crowd a few years, it's taken Microsoft much longer. How many DOS games can you play in any version of Windows - very few. How many games require you to reboot your machine so it can run in a protected DOS mode??? Why because DOS games do not know how to share memory properly, they want it ALL!
Within the last 3 years, I've seen Linux gaming grow in leaps and bounds. Where else can you play Quake2, download files off the net, and play MP3s at the same time. Funny thing, you can even play multiple MP3s at one time, a feat that is nearly impossible in ANY Windows system.
Sorry, Linux Rules.
Well I guess the Power and Light industry appreciated the one fool, Thomas Edison, for experimenting on making a better light bulb - blowing up bulbs and frying other components.
Thats called innovation, without it we as humans might as well crawl back into our caves and wither away.
Did anyone ever think it might be a QA flaw from SONY cutting corners to increase profits. Maybe they up'ed the *allowable* amount of garbage on a CD. In turn, this just slows the CD reading capabilities, but thats what buffers are for.
Not true ass wipe. Ever try compiling a 16bit app on an NT system. 90% of the time it won't. Well it will compile, just not run. OR it will run to a certain point and die with a nice segfault error that leaves you clueless to where the error occured and why.
I've seen win3.1 apps compile fine on win95, but not on NT. And to boot, the 32bit stuff that did compile on 95 and NT, did not compile on 2K.
Microsoft has a habit of changing the API as they see fit. They don't give a shit if it crashes your apps as long as it runs theirs.
Microsoft reminds me of unskilled worker who uses adhoc solutions, instead of just fixing the thing the right way the first time.
I agree. Many of us have been REAL collectors for many years, I myself have been collecting CD's and have nearly 1,000 CDs. I have nearly 5,000 MP3s on my system, but they are ripped by me from the CD's I bought and paid for.
I had other artists on 8-track, Cassette, and Album. They are the one's I download, because I'd like to hear them since I don't own a phonograph any more and the *Record Industry* decided those albums and cassettes were not worthy to be reproduced onto CD.
I enjoy my MP3 player in the car, I love taking 50 cent CDs and not having to worry - on NO! you stepped on my CD or Sat on it, or it got scratched by accident. I had had real CD's get stolen, and beatup that way.
Another thing, PS/2 games should be able to make backups, because kids are kids.. $50 a game, I rather have the kids play with a 50 cents CD - how many times do you tell them take care of the CD.. don't toss it around. My son lost a few games due to scratches.
Also, I used to work for the record industry in a manufacturing plant, I know what they have been doing over the past years. Making components cheaper and cheaper, yet the price has increased on individual units instead of decreasing. For example, pick up a CD from say 1986, and feel the weight. Now pick up a CD from 2000... you can tell the difference. Crap is crap. I know in the eraly years they used to do 12x oversampling, but that became too expensive by the year 1995. The Mfg quality at our plant was surpassing Sony and Phillips, something like 98% overall. Then the profit gouging hit, QA and R&D were cut. Their attitude changed from, lets provide this service for the highend consumer, so our product sounds great in high end equipment. So the audiophiles will tout our product. To, the fucking consumer can't tell the difference, fuck them, they can't tell the difference from sampling rate to another. We work on averages, the average piece of hardware in a persons home doesn't do more than 4x sampling (at the time) so thats what we focused on. Now that players are coming out that have higher sampling rates... they skip more often, because they can't read the crap the industry is putting out.
I have CD's bought after 95 that I can't play on car stereos - too light, skip on the first 3 tracks, or wont play on the last tracks. I've seen CD's that you can see thru, meaning they are now thinning down the aluminum to a point that is just above minimum allowance. Also, I seen were the spincoating on the CD's have been distributed unevenly, making the CD's wobble more which cause it to skip - or just sit there and not do anything.
All I know is the Record Industry is out to screw the consumer anyway they can. Heck, they have been doing it from 85 when the first CD came out. Even then it only cost about $.35 to make a CD, and they charged $18. Reason was, because CD's meant piracy could be done more easily and yeild better results.... hmm. that was in the early 80's when artists were freaking out over CD's.. and demanded a Protection Amount, to cover the Future Piracy that would occur when CD's were released. Hmm... Remember when albums and cassettes were $8. They doubled the price of the CD, because it was better quality and would last longer.
Checkout QCAD for Linux. There are some other CAD's that are now porting to Linux that are beginning to mature. Some with basic options are free, but the more advanced stuff costs maybe $120... or so. Do a search on CAD Linux... there are about 5 or 6 candidates.
HAHA.
Any *Chinese* hackers upto making the RedWorm visit the ASB website... oops that BAStard.. or wait BSA website.
FCUK-TEH-BSA!!
The BSA needs money to buy some spell chekcers.
Caldera is a division of Novell. 'Nuff said.
Caldera Open Linux sux majortime. I think they got the name from the default security model it uses on the installation. NONE. Everything OPEN!
Funny, I remember uttering the same thing about web pages. Until Java was released... I thought... OH Fuk!!!! It will only be a matter of time before they find a backdoor and we are screwed.
:)
:)
I still don't use HTML mail... I saw the Exchange servers usage grow when the upper management wanted to use HTML enabled mail because it looked pretty.
Well.. On an old text-based system (Banyan's Beyond Mail) I was able to place 130 users on a 1GB drive (with maybe 150MB dedicated to mailboxes). When Exchange moved in, we had to bring in 20GB drives, and even that wasn't enough... 300 users on one server (we had to recycle the older/newer servers for NT) can sure take up space. Even user network drives swelled beyond capacity. Oh well.. but we had pretty mail!
Thankfully, I work at a new company and their policy is - NO MS OUTLOOK PERIOD. I smiled. I like using Netscape IMAP mail with the Exchange server. The Exchange part still sux, but at least its not Outlook.
I use Opera as the browser of choice, cuz Netscape just keeps crapping over itself when it comes to a page designed for MS's flavor of javascript. People who use FrontPage, need to get a life and learn how to write documents, not pages that attract someones interest for more than 5 seconds. If the page is a slow loader - I'm gone!
Actually,
:)
I'm surprised no one has included a list of 100 to 500 hotmail accounts in the virus. That way they can mail one to your friend and one to a Microsoft Hotmail account.
The virus that keeps on giving!
For once it would be nice for Microsoft to feel the brunt of these attacks.
Uh... wakeup... You are thinking of the innocent days of viruses where it often required user intervention to infect the system via reboot (left floppy in drive A:) or run an EXE by mistake.
Thanks to Microsoft's innovation, and a few behind the scene flaws or features, a macro-virus can now infect the system without the user even knowing an infected letter had arrived. By then its too late.
I've seen it where as soon as the letter arrived in the mailbox, the machine was infected. This was due to a buffer overrun which allowed the mail to automatically launch the attachment.
Heck you don't even need Outlook, just run ICQ and someone can drop a trojan on you so fast, you won't know what hit you - until that day you see "You Are Now Owned Asshole!".
Subseven and a few others are a real pain to get off a system. I saw a Win98 machine rendered totally useless, even so the format and rebooting did not work. I had to delete the partitions and then rebuild. I found 7 trojans on that system. All the person ran was ICQ!
So that line about Dont Run Attachments is kind of outdated... Users are held defenseless when the company that writes the OS... calls the shots.