Doubt it. IE 5 still gets security patches (my WSUS server just alerted me today of one) since Windows 2000 is still supported. That is 9+ years it has had patches.
Firefox to me is more secure in a way because it usually has security patches released within 48 hours or so after a 0-day exploit, sometimes even within 24 hours. Microsoft on the other hand has been known to leave 0-day exploits unpatched for months.
Also, Microsoft patches have to wait for their nightly automatic install or when a user shuts down their PC. I believe Firefox checks every time it is launched for updates and installs them. The odds are, you are going to get patched quicker using Firefox then IE.
Again, did you even use the beta? CTRL-TAB is still there and works as it did in 3.0. They just removed the fancy tab previews they had been experimenting with.
The CC in Manchester, NH is really hard to get to, right in the middle of probably the busiest street in the city with numerous stop lights in each direction. It sometimes can take a good 15-20 minutes to get from the highway to CC when the traffic is bad. I almost never see the parking lot with more then 15 or so cars in it, most of those are probably employee cars. The employees are always standing around because there is nothing to do either.
Meanwhile BestBuy is down the street at the local mall, but right next to a highway exit, making it much easier to get in/out. It is always busy and surprisingly there is usually someone available to help you (although I never ask for help, as I know where to go).
To me, it doesn't surprise me that this is happening. In fact, I was shocked that the store here wasn't part of that 1/5th of stores closing announcement.
A cousin of mine that I was very close with committed suicide in January. It was absolutely heart wrenching. I had no clue she was in that much trouble (she had tried a year prior, but all indications from what I knew was that she was doing much better). I still wrestle to this day with the guilt of not being more involved. Which is why I helped in the situation below...at least I could say I did something.
My uncle (her father) called me 2 or 3 days after she died and in a very rough phone call asked for my help (me being the computer guy in the family). He had literally just found out she had a myspace account, which had contained several recent blog posts regarding her struggles finding a job and some of her issues she had been dealing with. Nothing about her suicidal thoughts were written though.
He had also heard she had wrote on her myspace blog really nice things about him and he wanted to read it with his own eyes. He also wanted to post a comment on her page, as in the days immediately after her death it became quite a memorial for all of us who knew her.
The issue was she didn't allow comments without that person being a friend on her myspace account
He had figured out how to create an account, so I had to break him the news that without my cousin's password, he wouldn't be approved to post on her myspace. Luckly, we figured out her password thanks to help from her partner and was able to get into my cousin's account to approve him.
For me, the ethical thing to do was to allow her loving father to send one more message to her, to read about the love she had for him, and perhaps find some answers as to why she did what she did.
Luckily it didn't have to get to the point of slaving the hard drive and hoping she saved the passwords in IE or Firefox. She had apparently shared some of her passwords with her partner. However, I was fully prepared to go all the way to requesting help from MySpace itself it that was what it took.
I remember when Apple first switched to x86 a few years ago and everyone was screaming about them picking Intel over AMD. Apple's response was that based on Intel's roadmap, they were the better choice.
The past few years has certainly vindicated Apple on that regard. They absolutely made the right choice.
My work has a custom Lotus Notes database. In here we can assign keywords to each piece of documentation, do stuff like screenshots, special formatting, etc. to make everything easy to read and follow. In fact, a good portion of the documentation could probably be followed by a person with basic power user knowledge because of the way we documented.
But to me, there is really 3 keys on how documentation is successful:
1. How do we force people to use it and update it? Everytime we discover something that is documentation worthy, one of the first things we say to each other is "Did you document that?" That reinforcement forces everyone to spend at least a few minutes writing down what they encountered. Kind of like peer pressure. It has gotten so expected that management doesn't even have to talk about doing it anymore, since it is done.
2. You must have a good way to search your documentation. That encourages people to use it, which also encourages people to update it since they use it daily. Our Lotus Notes database has a pretty good and quick search, so everyone uses it (when you have 1000+ documents, last thing you want is to manually scroll through them or wait for a 2 minute search).
3. You must make sure the documentation is readable and simple to follow. Screenshots and some basic formatting go a long way to doing this.
Food Network is in HD on some providers. The good news? Every program on it is HD...no stretch-o-vision or bad quality upconverts.
The bad news? It isn't a simulcast of the regular channel, so you rarely get new episodes of shows...it is all repeats (it isn't uncommon for the same episode to repeat 3 times a day). And for some reason, there is no Emeril and no Rachel Ray in HD yet. If you are a Food Network junkie, it is real easy to quickly see all of the available HD episodes real quick.
Just a guess, but my hunch is that the other CDMA providers will switch to LTE as well. If they don't, they risk losing access to any 4G roaming coverage that Verizon makes available. And now, they get the added benefit of AT&T, T-Mobile, etc. coverage as well.
Not to mention, the other CDMA carriers will lose the significant roaming payments Verizon pays to them (especially in the areas of the country where only rural cell phone carriers have coverage) and will miss out on any new roaming payments that the other big LTE carriers (AT&T, T-mobile, etc.) could send them. Talk about a nice incentive to upgrade!
This is as close of a shot to a full nationwide cell phone network that we will ever have. In theory, assuming you have a cell phone with roaming coverage in your plan, as long as some carrier (whether it is one of the big carriers or just a rural carrier) has a tower up near your location, you will get coverage. That is huge.
Apple moving Intel Internet Explorer actually updated Red Sox win the World Series not once but twice Apple releasing a phone DRM-less music from major label(s) being sold on major internet retailers (iTunes, Amazon, etc.) Vista actually being released.
And now...
Verizon letting you use "any" phone on its network, running "any" application.
I'm running out of things to complain about here...work with me people!
From what I have read about Obama, when he takes a position for/against an issue, he really educates himself about it before making the decision. He is not the type to just accept what his advisors tell him.
I don't know how recently you have used iTunes, but version 7.3 is excellent on Macs and pretty good on Windows. Never had problems with it outside of a little lag on the Windows client.
I agree. I would really like to use Thunderbird, but there are just certain things missing (Address Book and Spotlight integration for one thing) that are too important to live without.
Mail.app works just fine for me. The only real pet peeve I have is the inability to have images load automatically for contacts in your address book (no idea if this is coming or not) and no phishing detection (which is coming in Leopard I believe).
When will Firefox get some much needed love on Mac OS X? The toolbars look hideous, the form widgets don't look aqua like, and there is no integration into OS X services (like the dictionary). Plus there is always a need for speed improvements.
A few months ago a Tornado touched down on the seacoast of NH, flipping over a truck with 2 people in it (they somehow survived) and doing some decent damage before fizzling out.
NH has no tornado warning sirens or anything remotely close to that. The last previous tornado touched down in '98 if I remember right and was a very little one at that.
Having a text message alert to cell phones for disasters would be really handy I think.
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IE does have auto patch downloads via Windows Update. They just aren't installed until 3AM or when their computer is shutdown.
Contrast this to Firefox which downloads them when you launch your browser and installs them when it close your browser.
Doubt it. IE 5 still gets security patches (my WSUS server just alerted me today of one) since Windows 2000 is still supported. That is 9+ years it has had patches.
Nope, it is just plain old bad design.
Firefox to me is more secure in a way because it usually has security patches released within 48 hours or so after a 0-day exploit, sometimes even within 24 hours. Microsoft on the other hand has been known to leave 0-day exploits unpatched for months.
Also, Microsoft patches have to wait for their nightly automatic install or when a user shuts down their PC. I believe Firefox checks every time it is launched for updates and installs them. The odds are, you are going to get patched quicker using Firefox then IE.
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Again, did you even use the beta? CTRL-TAB is still there and works as it did in 3.0. They just removed the fancy tab previews they had been experimenting with.
Geez did you people actually download the beta and try it?
CTRL-TAB still works. I am rotating through tabs as we speak.
All that was removed was the fancy previews of the tabs as you hit CTRL-TAB. They removed it to work on the impli
The CC in Manchester, NH is really hard to get to, right in the middle of probably the busiest street in the city with numerous stop lights in each direction. It sometimes can take a good 15-20 minutes to get from the highway to CC when the traffic is bad. I almost never see the parking lot with more then 15 or so cars in it, most of those are probably employee cars. The employees are always standing around because there is nothing to do either.
Meanwhile BestBuy is down the street at the local mall, but right next to a highway exit, making it much easier to get in/out. It is always busy and surprisingly there is usually someone available to help you (although I never ask for help, as I know where to go).
To me, it doesn't surprise me that this is happening. In fact, I was shocked that the store here wasn't part of that 1/5th of stores closing announcement.
All my devices support WPA2, so I am not worried about incompatibility.
AES is more secure, so use it whenever possible.
I don't know if WPA with AES has been cracked yet.
Personally, I use WPA2 with AES.
Outside of occasionally (once or twice a year) using Google Groups to search for something, I haven't used USENET in probably 8 or so years.
I remember every time I tried to use USENET, the groups I found were so riddled with spam it was impossible to use.
Personally, I say good riddance. It outgrew it
A cousin of mine that I was very close with committed suicide in January. It was absolutely heart wrenching. I had no clue she was in that much trouble (she had tried a year prior, but all indications from what I knew was that she was doing much better). I still wrestle to this day with the guilt of not being more involved. Which is why I helped in the situation below...at least I could say I did something.
My uncle (her father) called me 2 or 3 days after she died and in a very rough phone call asked for my help (me being the computer guy in the family). He had literally just found out she had a myspace account, which had contained several recent blog posts regarding her struggles finding a job and some of her issues she had been dealing with. Nothing about her suicidal thoughts were written though.
He had also heard she had wrote on her myspace blog really nice things about him and he wanted to read it with his own eyes. He also wanted to post a comment on her page, as in the days immediately after her death it became quite a memorial for all of us who knew her.
The issue was she didn't allow comments without that person being a friend on her myspace account
He had figured out how to create an account, so I had to break him the news that without my cousin's password, he wouldn't be approved to post on her myspace. Luckly, we figured out her password thanks to help from her partner and was able to get into my cousin's account to approve him.
For me, the ethical thing to do was to allow her loving father to send one more message to her, to read about the love she had for him, and perhaps find some answers as to why she did what she did.
Luckily it didn't have to get to the point of slaving the hard drive and hoping she saved the passwords in IE or Firefox. She had apparently shared some of her passwords with her partner. However, I was fully prepared to go all the way to requesting help from MySpace itself it that was what it took.
She would have wanted it that way, I know it.
I remember when Apple first switched to x86 a few years ago and everyone was screaming about them picking Intel over AMD. Apple's response was that based on Intel's roadmap, they were the better choice.
The past few years has certainly vindicated Apple on that regard. They absolutely made the right choice.
Agreed. Firefox 3 on OS X is making quite a strong statement against Safari 3.
Really the only issues I have left Firefox on the Mac left is no integrated PDF viewer and the fact that I really like Safari's find feature.
But those are quite minor. Overall, Firefox 3 completely wrecks Safari.
My work has a custom Lotus Notes database. In here we can assign keywords to each piece of documentation, do stuff like screenshots, special formatting, etc. to make everything easy to read and follow. In fact, a good portion of the documentation could probably be followed by a person with basic power user knowledge because of the way we documented.
But to me, there is really 3 keys on how documentation is successful:
1. How do we force people to use it and update it? Everytime we discover something that is documentation worthy, one of the first things we say to each other is "Did you document that?" That reinforcement forces everyone to spend at least a few minutes writing down what they encountered. Kind of like peer pressure. It has gotten so expected that management doesn't even have to talk about doing it anymore, since it is done.
2. You must have a good way to search your documentation. That encourages people to use it, which also encourages people to update it since they use it daily. Our Lotus Notes database has a pretty good and quick search, so everyone uses it (when you have 1000+ documents, last thing you want is to manually scroll through them or wait for a 2 minute search).
3. You must make sure the documentation is readable and simple to follow. Screenshots and some basic formatting go a long way to doing this.
I rather wait for a $100 dual-format player and/or HD rentals/purchases from the iTunes Store.
I see no reason to have 2 high-def movie players right now. I rather just sit it out and wait.
Food Network is in HD on some providers. The good news? Every program on it is HD...no stretch-o-vision or bad quality upconverts.
The bad news? It isn't a simulcast of the regular channel, so you rarely get new episodes of shows...it is all repeats (it isn't uncommon for the same episode to repeat 3 times a day). And for some reason, there is no Emeril and no Rachel Ray in HD yet. If you are a Food Network junkie, it is real easy to quickly see all of the available HD episodes real quick.
Just a guess, but my hunch is that the other CDMA providers will switch to LTE as well. If they don't, they risk losing access to any 4G roaming coverage that Verizon makes available. And now, they get the added benefit of AT&T, T-Mobile, etc. coverage as well.
Not to mention, the other CDMA carriers will lose the significant roaming payments Verizon pays to them (especially in the areas of the country where only rural cell phone carriers have coverage) and will miss out on any new roaming payments that the other big LTE carriers (AT&T, T-mobile, etc.) could send them. Talk about a nice incentive to upgrade!
This is as close of a shot to a full nationwide cell phone network that we will ever have. In theory, assuming you have a cell phone with roaming coverage in your plan, as long as some carrier (whether it is one of the big carriers or just a rural carrier) has a tower up near your location, you will get coverage. That is huge.
So does this mean Duke Nukem is coming soon?
After all, the past few years we have seen:
Apple moving Intel
Internet Explorer actually updated
Red Sox win the World Series not once but twice
Apple releasing a phone
DRM-less music from major label(s) being sold on major internet retailers (iTunes, Amazon, etc.)
Vista actually being released.
And now...
Verizon letting you use "any" phone on its network, running "any" application.
I'm running out of things to complain about here...work with me people!
From what I have read about Obama, when he takes a position for/against an issue, he really educates himself about it before making the decision. He is not the type to just accept what his advisors tell him.
I don't know how recently you have used iTunes, but version 7.3 is excellent on Macs and pretty good on Windows. Never had problems with it outside of a little lag on the Windows client.
I agree. I would really like to use Thunderbird, but there are just certain things missing (Address Book and Spotlight integration for one thing) that are too important to live without.
Mail.app works just fine for me. The only real pet peeve I have is the inability to have images load automatically for contacts in your address book (no idea if this is coming or not) and no phishing detection (which is coming in Leopard I believe).
Unfortunately FIOS never reached Manchester (biggest city in the state).
Oh what I would give for a little competition with Comcast...
While I disagree with a good portion of his views, this is definitely one time where I can say that I am proud to be represented by him.
When will Firefox get some much needed love on Mac OS X? The toolbars look hideous, the form widgets don't look aqua like, and there is no integration into OS X services (like the dictionary). Plus there is always a need for speed improvements.
A few months ago a Tornado touched down on the seacoast of NH, flipping over a truck with 2 people in it (they somehow survived) and doing some decent damage before fizzling out.
NH has no tornado warning sirens or anything remotely close to that. The last previous tornado touched down in '98 if I remember right and was a very little one at that.
Having a text message alert to cell phones for disasters would be really handy I think.