Why is it always assumed that the typical computer user is a home user? I don't really think this is a fair assumption to make, there's far more machines used in business than at home. I find it likely that many sysadmins would be interested in the flexibility of being able to replace the default browser control in their company's workstations with something else for security reasons and otherwise..
Ah yes, but you missed the important part. You can't remove the IE control and make the system use something else instead.
Not to mention that it's used in all sorts of marketing tactics by Microsoft, and as a result many people now equate that piece of software with "The Internet" since Microsoft essentially forced it on them for all these years.
...Because it's really hard to select all the songs, with all variants of the names.. go in to properties, and change them all to a common name.
Give me a break, fixing minor problems like this take s seconds in iTunes. Not to mention iTunes autocompletes fields for you in the properties to prevent exactly these kinds of mis-labeling problems.
Wow, that Spartan 3E kit looks mighty impressive, and at an amazing price to boot. I think I'll be holding out for that one before buying an FPGA board. Thanks for the link.
There's very nice cheap FPGA kits available at http://www.easyfpga.com/. They also have pointers to some online resources, and the kits include code samples. If you're interested in discussing more about hardware design and FPGA, feel free to contact me. (Note: I have absolutely no relation to easyfpga at all, just been looking at buying a kit for some time now)
What I do at work is put my primary screen directly in front, and then a secondary screen off to the left. Then I keep my main coding / other workspace window on the main screen, and email or some reference documentation on the left screen. Kind of the same layout as you would have with a 3 panel setup, but with only 2 panels.
OR the worm could just wait till you establish connections to other machines (P2P anyone?) and just spread to those addresses, which it knows are good. Maybe not quite as fast as random search, but still fairly good. Also chances are that most admins would assign addresses to their networks in some sort of pattern (consecutive numbers come to mind..) that the worms would be able to make use of once they got to a machine.
From what I understood at my last IT job, the password change and complexity requirements were part of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.. If you don't know what SOx is, just google it. Bane of our existence as IT workers:)
Exactly. I also know many people who just download the latest and greatest versions of a huge variety of software, often some very expensive suites (such as Maya) simply to be able to say they have a copy. They don't use it, maybe on occasion they'll burn a copy for a friend. Somehow I doubt they'd all be shelling out $20k a year for new version of Maya if they didn't download it.
Don't have a static IP? Use a dynamic DNS service.. lots of free ones such as http://www.dyndns.org/. Easy to set up and update. I don't have a static IP, so I use that.. no problem.
Many bittorrent clients such as Azureus have built in trackers that only take a couple of button presses to start up and track any files you want. Hardly rocket science.
You might want to check out my mutt config: http://www.sfu.ca/~kkisiel/mailconfig/. There's no HTML email I haven't been able to view thus far with these settings.
Maybe it would be a good idea to require (or at least very strongly suggest) SSL for whitelisted install sites. A message along the lines of "You are adding a non-secure site to your whitelist.. yadda yadda yadda" could be used. That way the authenticity of the site could be verified with the SSL certificate and prevent people from installing software via DNS spoofing and that sort of thing.
Funny, I could swear I was using Cubase for real-time multi-track audio editing 5 years ago on my x86 without any problems. I guess helping my friends record their demo album then was all a dream.
I like Macs and all, but sometimes you rabid fan-boys really do over-exaggerate the situation.
I installed Ubuntu just the other week and was momentarily perplexed that I couldn't su to root. After some consultation on IRC, I learned that Ubuntu has no root account by default, and you can access things you'd normally do as root by sudo, and applications requiring root just ask for your password. As I understand it, this is similar to how it works in OSX. In my opinion, this is the right direction to go in for single-user machines such as home desktops. Of course, stupid users will still type their passwords in when malware prompts for them, but that's more of a user education issue than anything. I can't really think of any way off-hand to give home users the power they need to install apps while still preventing trickery like that..
Funny, because my Blackberry charged through the USB dock connector without any problem, only took a couple of hours for a full charge. Not noticably longer than my Motorola phone does..
Yes.. just like RMS never made any money while at MIT selling his software and manuals, despite the fact it was free. I suggest you read up on some history. Of course, nobody is making money writing free software right now, nope.. not any of the employees working on free software at IBM, Apple, HP, RedHat, Novell, etc.. are getting paid..
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HEY! I'm a real engineer, and I resent that "human being" comment! Highly efficient cybernetic organism...
There should be some insensitive clod joke in here somewhere..
Why is it always assumed that the typical computer user is a home user? I don't really think this is a fair assumption to make, there's far more machines used in business than at home. I find it likely that many sysadmins would be interested in the flexibility of being able to replace the default browser control in their company's workstations with something else for security reasons and otherwise..
Ah yes, but you missed the important part. You can't remove the IE control and make the system use something else instead.
Not to mention that it's used in all sorts of marketing tactics by Microsoft, and as a result many people now equate that piece of software with "The Internet" since Microsoft essentially forced it on them for all these years.
Yeah, and the stories they post are usually weeks old, and often duplicated! I don't even know why I bother...
...Because it's really hard to select all the songs, with all variants of the names.. go in to properties, and change them all to a common name.
Give me a break, fixing minor problems like this take s seconds in iTunes. Not to mention iTunes autocompletes fields for you in the properties to prevent exactly these kinds of mis-labeling problems.
Wow, that Spartan 3E kit looks mighty impressive, and at an amazing price to boot. I think I'll be holding out for that one before buying an FPGA board. Thanks for the link.
There's very nice cheap FPGA kits available at http://www.easyfpga.com/. They also have pointers to some online resources, and the kits include code samples. If you're interested in discussing more about hardware design and FPGA, feel free to contact me. (Note: I have absolutely no relation to easyfpga at all, just been looking at buying a kit for some time now)
What I do at work is put my primary screen directly in front, and then a secondary screen off to the left. Then I keep my main coding / other workspace window on the main screen, and email or some reference documentation on the left screen. Kind of the same layout as you would have with a 3 panel setup, but with only 2 panels.
Actually, if you put a : before the 7 it becomes a valid command, in Vim at least :)
OR the worm could just wait till you establish connections to other machines (P2P anyone?) and just spread to those addresses, which it knows are good. Maybe not quite as fast as random search, but still fairly good. Also chances are that most admins would assign addresses to their networks in some sort of pattern (consecutive numbers come to mind..) that the worms would be able to make use of once they got to a machine.
From what I understood at my last IT job, the password change and complexity requirements were part of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.. If you don't know what SOx is, just google it. Bane of our existence as IT workers :)
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Exactly. I also know many people who just download the latest and greatest versions of a huge variety of software, often some very expensive suites (such as Maya) simply to be able to say they have a copy. They don't use it, maybe on occasion they'll burn a copy for a friend. Somehow I doubt they'd all be shelling out $20k a year for new version of Maya if they didn't download it.
Don't have a static IP? Use a dynamic DNS service.. lots of free ones such as http://www.dyndns.org/. Easy to set up and update. I don't have a static IP, so I use that.. no problem.
Many bittorrent clients such as Azureus have built in trackers that only take a couple of button presses to start up and track any files you want. Hardly rocket science.
You might want to check out my mutt config: http://www.sfu.ca/~kkisiel/mailconfig/. There's no HTML email I haven't been able to view thus far with these settings.
Maybe it would be a good idea to require (or at least very strongly suggest) SSL for whitelisted install sites. A message along the lines of "You are adding a non-secure site to your whitelist.. yadda yadda yadda" could be used. That way the authenticity of the site could be verified with the SSL certificate and prevent people from installing software via DNS spoofing and that sort of thing.
Sorry man, metrosexuals are out....
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Funny, I could swear I was using Cubase for real-time multi-track audio editing 5 years ago on my x86 without any problems. I guess helping my friends record their demo album then was all a dream.
I like Macs and all, but sometimes you rabid fan-boys really do over-exaggerate the situation.
I installed Ubuntu just the other week and was momentarily perplexed that I couldn't su to root. After some consultation on IRC, I learned that Ubuntu has no root account by default, and you can access things you'd normally do as root by sudo, and applications requiring root just ask for your password. As I understand it, this is similar to how it works in OSX. In my opinion, this is the right direction to go in for single-user machines such as home desktops. Of course, stupid users will still type their passwords in when malware prompts for them, but that's more of a user education issue than anything. I can't really think of any way off-hand to give home users the power they need to install apps while still preventing trickery like that..
Funny, because my Blackberry charged through the USB dock connector without any problem, only took a couple of hours for a full charge. Not noticably longer than my Motorola phone does..
FYI, the GP probably meant distributed branches...
Yes.. just like RMS never made any money while at MIT selling his software and manuals, despite the fact it was free. I suggest you read up on some history. Of course, nobody is making money writing free software right now, nope.. not any of the employees working on free software at IBM, Apple, HP, RedHat, Novell, etc.. are getting paid..
Must be coming from all those Wordpress pages they're deleting from their search index ;)