That's what's great about OS X. If you want to install an app and the installer requires admin rights, it prompts you to enter in your user accounts' regular password. This stops automated trojan installers, but doesn't require a separate id/password for doing system level work. It also alerts you that "Hey, I'm doing something that will change by system."
There is no need to log into an admin account to do any of this kind of stuff under OS X.
I've also never seen an OS X app that says you have to give all users all perms to the root folder, or have everyone running as admin, or open up the program folder for everyone to write to because settings are being stored in the wrong dang place.
Windows could be a lot more secure, but Microsoft doesn't go far enough to shame software vendors into sticking to the logo requirements. How many times have you Windows admins had to support a desktop app or driver for a peripheral that REQUIRES admin or power user rights? It's insane that there are Windows programmers that are still writing crap like this today.
It keeps you environment clean and
moving it later is a simple directory copy.
Thanks. Great advice. I love nice and clean. When we upgraded our redhat servers from 7.3 to RHEL 3 it was a helluva lot of work due to all the customizations and stuff added to 7.3 over the years. RHEL docs said to do a clean install, no real upgrade option.
I'm going to give this a try. I've been wanting to give my users some sort of content management system to head off any interest in sharepoint or something like that. We have no IIS servers except for a SUS one, and I'd like to keep it that way. The less diversification, the easier to manage it all.
It looks like, from their supported release page, that for Redhat OSes, it's Redhat 9 or Fedora Core 1. That's a bit strange (to me) for RHEL to not be listed or have an RPM since businesses are being pushed onto RHEL.
RHEL 3 packages Python 2.2.3. Is that high enough for it?
I'll find something to use them on. And thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
Part of the problem is lack of exposure to new music. Radio really sucks bad. I do listen to the streaming stations on itunes and get ideas from them. It'd be neat to be able to integrate that better into the itunes store. Listen to something like Radiostorm Hardrock, click a link while a cool tune is playing, go into itunes and buy it, and the streaming station gets a commission for the referal.
Amen about there being nothing you want to hear available. I have 40 credits in itunes I need to use before the end of the month, and I haven't found anything good to use it for yet -- FOR FREE.
I do believe you're right. One could say "duh, obvious" even, but I've been surprised it hasn't happened before now. With growing mistrust of the U.S. around the world, why would a foreign nation trust a closed source piece of software from a U.S. company?
On another angle, why did the U.S. and Europe bother suing Microsoft? If they didn't like Microsoft's monopoly abuses, all each of these governments had to do is leverage their buying power. "We demand you unbunndle, stop, etc, or we will take our business elsewhere." That would have been far more effective and quicker than the courts.
Once governments switch, their contractors and vendors and others who communicate with them may switch too -- to be compatible. The same domino effect that help Microsoft be where they are today.
The solution to many of these problems is to stop cramming people into high rise buildings where they live and bussing them to high rise building where they work. That model fails to produce quality of life wherever it has been tried worldwide.
That certainly fits the description of Manhattan and quite a few people disagree with your sentiment based on what the market will bear for housing on the island. Density can also bring some advantages as well as disadvantages. People prefer different things.
For example, I tend to like the Phoenix area. There are millions of people there and hence you get the services, stores, etc, that cater to that kind of density, but the place is spread out very very thin. Designing a transit systme there is very difficult because, except for a somewhat traditional downtown area, most people just criss-cross across the valley to go to work.
My wife, on the other hand, prefers large cities because everything is close together and more vibriant. She also points out that she lived in Los Angeles area when she was younger, that was like Phoenix is now a few decades ago, and that all of that new construction just slowly turns to shit and you eventually get mile after mile of rundown crap that all looks the same. She expects the Phoenix valley will turn into LA eventually.
Having worked for almost 5 years in a free to pay email service that handled 10's of millions of user accounts, this sounds good but does not work in practice.
Been thinking about your post. I administer an email server of 25,000 users at a college. I see from a cursory look at the mail logs that most messages are to multiple personnel. Employees cc'ing the world, or teachers emailing an entire class.
So obviously different types of email servers have different patterns of use. A free email system like yours is mainly personal correspondence between familiars and spam. Mine tends to be multiple receipients.
So, unless gmail started handling mail for colleges and companies, your experience would probably best define what they would see.
Maybe I should run out and patent the idea anyway! Who cares if it's obvious and/or has probable prior art!:)
I agree with pretty much everything you said, but also remember that these are the same people who index over 4 billion web pages and allow the world to pull up search results in a fraction of a second. That kind of power and logistics just blows my mind. I'm not going to write off limitations that I think are there due to my limited knowledge in this kind of science.
If this is not an April Fool's joke, then technically the way they could achieve a gig per user is to have it be effectively a gig, but not physically.
Look at all of the email that is duplicated, especially spam and mailing lists. Store one copy, hash it to a unique key somehow, and only store the key in the user's mail directory.
This same technology could be used to detect and eliminate spam -- even if spammers randomly generate bits of the message. The report spam button will generate a case history of spam patterns and deal with it. Idiots, of course, report spam falsely, so a reputation index can be learned through past behavior to weight the legitimacy of the reports and to minimize abuse.
I think it's real. Let's see. I'm going to be co-workers real money it's real, so it better be!
Just think of a silly made-up word and you can usually get it even on the most polluted namespaces like AIM, hotmail, etc... Like grassnublin for example.
The article says google estimates costs of storage at about two dollars a gigabyte. Woohoo if true. Maybe Apple will catch a clue and drop the price on their extra dot-mac storage costs. For a gigabyte, they charge $350 a year.
I'm the receipient of spam reports where I work. Imp (www.horde.org) webmail program has a report spam button that can be enabled. I did, and had it send reports to me.
A scary number of reports are obviously false, including people reporting personal email. I sometimes get a desperate "I didn't mean to click it" message from the person later.
There's also a lot of mailing lists reported as spam even though I recognize many as being legit. People forget, or are too lazy to unsubscribe themselves.
What I do with spam reports is quickly scan and delete most, recent ones that are clearly spam (forged headers, from addresses, v1agr@ crap, I submit to spamcop. Others can get added to the system's black list. And some legitiamte mailing lists, like certain academic interest ones, I just send off the unsubscribe for the user myself.
Those I report get saved so if someone complains, I know *why* I did the action.
Sometimes I think I should just turn off the link, but it makes people feel better and I at least get the full headers this way correctly. I also sometimes notice a particularly bad problem, like when netsky.c hit and our virus defs hadn't been updated yet.
But overall, yeah, I can confirm, users report spam falsely A LOT.
You were in Scottsdale I assume. The staff are trained to not only say the person's name but to remember it.
Close. Fountain Hills. There's a Safeway tucked back there on Palisades and Fountain Hills Blvds.
It's quite jarring. Back east, cashiers are rude and make you feel like you're disturbing them when you enter their line. In this Safeway, they are all bubbly. Too much the other way. Is it too much to ask that I just be treated politely and not try to be my best friend.
I try my best to avoid stores with loyalty cards, but what bugs me more is how Safeway has to call out your name out loud during the sale.
Recently I was in one in Phoenix area and there was a very nice looking woman in front of me. As the cashier said her name out loud, I repeated it and said it was nice to meet her too. She, quite understandbly, got very upset that now some complete stranger knew her name.
I tried to calm her down and state that she should be upset at the store policy of doing that, because her name shouldn't be spoken out loud so any creep -- like me -- could learn it and be one step closer to being a stalker.
Anyway, the cashier got huffy too. Ah, the fun you can have when shopping at a store 2,500 miles from home where you don't have to worry about running into these people again!
As an old IT guy, I remember Novell from the early days. I still remember the hype of version 2 where it added support for fault-tolerant mirroring and would take full advantage of the new 286 processors.
Say Microsoft pays up. Where does the money go? Split between member countries? It'd be nice to see some of it invested into European high-tech firms and start ups.
Think of it as affirmative action for European tech companies that were kept down by "the man." This could help equalize the playing field again!
Your second statement applies just as well to Apple.
Yeah, I know. It was a subtle attempt at poking fun at Microsoft's previous criticisms of Apple not following "standards."
Microsoft should abandon that proprietary audio/video format they are clinging to and just go along with what the consumers have picked to be the defacto standard.
Sorry, but I've gone that route before. It's just such a pleasure to leave my phone in my pocket or backpack and just use the laptop or my pocket PC with bluetooth card to go on the net. It's also a pain hooking all that stuff up when you're on a train or bus with people all around you.
I also sync my addressbook a lot since I use three different Macs, and if my phone is in range, it just auto picks it up and updates it. Very nice.
Yeah, I have VPN. No ports blocked. Others can probably get it by using the internet3.voicestream.com APN I bet.
GPRS is a bit spotty where I live (northern Delaware) but was really good in Phoenix area when I was out there in January. I had an ssh session open to my box fixing a problem as my buddy drove from Goodyear AZ about 40 miles to Fountain Hills. Never dropped connection once. Even worked up around Crazy Eds in Cave Creek!
But yeah, latency is a drag. Editing text files over ssh can be a chore. Fortunately, bbedit on the mac has sftp support which makes it easy to edit files locally and save remotely.
Wow, interesting. Thanks. But I guess it doesn't work with this new network. Another unfortunate thing is that my powerbook doesn't have a PC CARD slot.:-(
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There is no need to log into an admin account to do any of this kind of stuff under OS X.
I've also never seen an OS X app that says you have to give all users all perms to the root folder, or have everyone running as admin, or open up the program folder for everyone to write to because settings are being stored in the wrong dang place.
Windows could be a lot more secure, but Microsoft doesn't go far enough to shame software vendors into sticking to the logo requirements. How many times have you Windows admins had to support a desktop app or driver for a peripheral that REQUIRES admin or power user rights? It's insane that there are Windows programmers that are still writing crap like this today.
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Thanks. Great advice. I love nice and clean. When we upgraded our redhat servers from 7.3 to RHEL 3 it was a helluva lot of work due to all the customizations and stuff added to 7.3 over the years. RHEL docs said to do a clean install, no real upgrade option.
I'm going to give this a try. I've been wanting to give my users some sort of content management system to head off any interest in sharepoint or something like that. We have no IIS servers except for a SUS one, and I'd like to keep it that way. The less diversification, the easier to manage it all.
RHEL 3 packages Python 2.2.3. Is that high enough for it?
There's also the minor fact that not too much of the rail lines are electrified to consider!
I'll find something to use them on. And thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Part of the problem is lack of exposure to new music. Radio really sucks bad. I do listen to the streaming stations on itunes and get ideas from them. It'd be neat to be able to integrate that better into the itunes store. Listen to something like Radiostorm Hardrock, click a link while a cool tune is playing, go into itunes and buy it, and the streaming station gets a commission for the referal.
Amen about there being nothing you want to hear available. I have 40 credits in itunes I need to use before the end of the month, and I haven't found anything good to use it for yet -- FOR FREE.
On another angle, why did the U.S. and Europe bother suing Microsoft? If they didn't like Microsoft's monopoly abuses, all each of these governments had to do is leverage their buying power. "We demand you unbunndle, stop, etc, or we will take our business elsewhere." That would have been far more effective and quicker than the courts.
Once governments switch, their contractors and vendors and others who communicate with them may switch too -- to be compatible. The same domino effect that help Microsoft be where they are today.
That certainly fits the description of Manhattan and quite a few people disagree with your sentiment based on what the market will bear for housing on the island. Density can also bring some advantages as well as disadvantages. People prefer different things.
For example, I tend to like the Phoenix area. There are millions of people there and hence you get the services, stores, etc, that cater to that kind of density, but the place is spread out very very thin. Designing a transit systme there is very difficult because, except for a somewhat traditional downtown area, most people just criss-cross across the valley to go to work.
My wife, on the other hand, prefers large cities because everything is close together and more vibriant. She also points out that she lived in Los Angeles area when she was younger, that was like Phoenix is now a few decades ago, and that all of that new construction just slowly turns to shit and you eventually get mile after mile of rundown crap that all looks the same. She expects the Phoenix valley will turn into LA eventually.
Been thinking about your post. I administer an email server of 25,000 users at a college. I see from a cursory look at the mail logs that most messages are to multiple personnel. Employees cc'ing the world, or teachers emailing an entire class.
So obviously different types of email servers have different patterns of use. A free email system like yours is mainly personal correspondence between familiars and spam. Mine tends to be multiple receipients.
So, unless gmail started handling mail for colleges and companies, your experience would probably best define what they would see.
Maybe I should run out and patent the idea anyway! Who cares if it's obvious and/or has probable prior art! :)
I agree with pretty much everything you said, but also remember that these are the same people who index over 4 billion web pages and allow the world to pull up search results in a fraction of a second. That kind of power and logistics just blows my mind. I'm not going to write off limitations that I think are there due to my limited knowledge in this kind of science.
Look at all of the email that is duplicated, especially spam and mailing lists. Store one copy, hash it to a unique key somehow, and only store the key in the user's mail directory.
This same technology could be used to detect and eliminate spam -- even if spammers randomly generate bits of the message. The report spam button will generate a case history of spam patterns and deal with it. Idiots, of course, report spam falsely, so a reputation index can be learned through past behavior to weight the legitimacy of the reports and to minimize abuse.
I think it's real. Let's see. I'm going to be co-workers real money it's real, so it better be!
Just think of a silly made-up word and you can usually get it even on the most polluted namespaces like AIM, hotmail, etc... Like grassnublin for example.
Yup, heard that right.
A scary number of reports are obviously false, including people reporting personal email. I sometimes get a desperate "I didn't mean to click it" message from the person later.
There's also a lot of mailing lists reported as spam even though I recognize many as being legit. People forget, or are too lazy to unsubscribe themselves.
What I do with spam reports is quickly scan and delete most, recent ones that are clearly spam (forged headers, from addresses, v1agr@ crap, I submit to spamcop. Others can get added to the system's black list. And some legitiamte mailing lists, like certain academic interest ones, I just send off the unsubscribe for the user myself.
Those I report get saved so if someone complains, I know *why* I did the action.
Sometimes I think I should just turn off the link, but it makes people feel better and I at least get the full headers this way correctly. I also sometimes notice a particularly bad problem, like when netsky.c hit and our virus defs hadn't been updated yet.
But overall, yeah, I can confirm, users report spam falsely A LOT.
Close. Fountain Hills. There's a Safeway tucked back there on Palisades and Fountain Hills Blvds.
It's quite jarring. Back east, cashiers are rude and make you feel like you're disturbing them when you enter their line. In this Safeway, they are all bubbly. Too much the other way. Is it too much to ask that I just be treated politely and not try to be my best friend.
Recently I was in one in Phoenix area and there was a very nice looking woman in front of me. As the cashier said her name out loud, I repeated it and said it was nice to meet her too. She, quite understandbly, got very upset that now some complete stranger knew her name.
I tried to calm her down and state that she should be upset at the store policy of doing that, because her name shouldn't be spoken out loud so any creep -- like me -- could learn it and be one step closer to being a stalker.
Anyway, the cashier got huffy too. Ah, the fun you can have when shopping at a store 2,500 miles from home where you don't have to worry about running into these people again!
Where can I sign up for my 100 year .mail domain?
Gessh...
Think of it as affirmative action for European tech companies that were kept down by "the man." This could help equalize the playing field again!
Your second statement applies just as well to Apple. Yeah, I know. It was a subtle attempt at poking fun at Microsoft's previous criticisms of Apple not following "standards."
Microsoft should abandon that proprietary audio/video format they are clinging to and just go along with what the consumers have picked to be the defacto standard.
Sucks, doesn't it Microsoft?
I also sync my addressbook a lot since I use three different Macs, and if my phone is in range, it just auto picks it up and updates it. Very nice.
GPRS is a bit spotty where I live (northern Delaware) but was really good in Phoenix area when I was out there in January. I had an ssh session open to my box fixing a problem as my buddy drove from Goodyear AZ about 40 miles to Fountain Hills. Never dropped connection once. Even worked up around Crazy Eds in Cave Creek!
But yeah, latency is a drag. Editing text files over ssh can be a chore. Fortunately, bbedit on the mac has sftp support which makes it easy to edit files locally and save remotely.
Wow, interesting. Thanks. But I guess it doesn't work with this new network. Another unfortunate thing is that my powerbook doesn't have a PC CARD slot. :-(