Once in awhile there is a movement here in NH to get a sales and/or income tax. Every person who has attempted to introduce this has either had a horrible defeat in the legislature and/or lost their next election.
I honestly do not see anything in the near future that will change the situation. Maybe 30-50 years from now, but not before then.
The only gripe I have is the property taxes. It is insane in NH. Luckly I rent, so I don't really see what the tax is for my place.
You might not, but for the millions of IE users who don't know better, this will make their lives (and web developer's lives) a tad easier, even if the users don't directly notice it.
Having an attitude that you don't care simply because you don't use it doesn't mean that it doesn't effect someone else.
The thing about Microsoft is they are too willing to bend over backwards for backwards compatibility. Yeah it is great you can run on XP almost ever Windows app ever created...but that has come at a steep price: security.
That is why IE has been so hard for them to secure, or why the latest vulnerability affects a part of Windows dating back to 3.0.
You know why Microsoft won't fix it? Because they have so many businesses that rely on old software (the classic why upgrade from Office 97 argument).
If Microsoft really could or cared, they wouldn't have waitied till Windows Vista to fix the "let's run every as administrator" mistake they made.
Google is used by AOL Search right now. Just the amount of traffic and ad revenue from that results in like $400 million per year in Google's coffers and is 10% of their traffic.
Without AOL, it deals a decent blow to Google, especially if it were Microsoft who takes it.
I'm sure this deal will result in a tighter integration between Google and AOL services. Perhaps AIM will be opened up for real to any client, especially GTalk. Perhaps Gmail (or at least its interface) will replace AOL Mail.
Who knows.
The main thing though is that Google is paying $1 billion, but will easily recoup that due to the $400+ million a year in revenue it gets from AOL to begin with. This deal is all about preventing Microsoft from expanding in the search area.
1) Document everything: what you fixed, how you fixed it, error messages, etc. It makes it so much easier to look at a list of common errors users in a particular company encounter. It is also great to say that you cleaned out spyware x # of times in the past month from one machine.
2) Patience is key: Explain questions in simple terms and a user will provide the information back. Might take a little work to understand what is exactly going on, but if the user loses confidence in you, then you won't have an easy time finding/fixing the problem.
3) If you can, be there in person (or at least remotely): If you can see an issue with your own eyes, the solution is likely to come very quickly. If you are forced to do it over the phone with no remote access to the machine, it is going to take a long time to solve.
You can't claim ignorance when it comes to something like this. That DRM was basically distributed with the Sony logo attached to it. If they were dumb enough to purchase it for use in their own products, they are dumb enough to have responsibility for it.
A few weeks ago I tried out Linux, downloading a couple of distros (Ubuntu and SUSE) that were recommended to me.
I was plesantly surprised that these distros detected the hardware on my Toshiba laptop as well as it did.
Except for the wireless card (a Linkyss WPC54G), since I wasn't about to run a cat5 cable across the apartment for an laptop.
So I rebooted into Windows, saved to a flash drive all the instructions and files I supposedly needed to get wireless working, and rebooted back into Linux.
I managed after 3 hours to get Linux to detect the wireless card and get ndis_wrapper to work.
Then came the work to get WPA working. I downloaded the wpa_supplement. No luck getting it to connect to the wireless router for 3 more hours. I wasn't about to use the broken WEP encryption either.
Then there is the fact that is beyond pathetic how you choose to connect to wireless networks. From what I could gather, I had to type a bunch of commands in order to connect to a single network. How the hell am I supposed to do this for the many wireless networks I connect to at clients?
In the end, I determined linux wireless is a joke. I understand needing to install a driver (that was actually the easy part). But how about an easy way to connect to wireless networks AND to connect using WPA?
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Question is, does Opera do these features better or will Firefox?
It isn't so much who had what feature first, it is who does it best. How hard is it to understand that?
Once in awhile there is a movement here in NH to get a sales and/or income tax. Every person who has attempted to introduce this has either had a horrible defeat in the legislature and/or lost their next election.
I honestly do not see anything in the near future that will change the situation. Maybe 30-50 years from now, but not before then.
The only gripe I have is the property taxes. It is insane in NH. Luckly I rent, so I don't really see what the tax is for my place.
The other day, I saw a commerical for Bambi 2. I nearly jumped over the side of my balcony.
Talk about destroying a classic.
Except Pixar had 6 films since 1995, while Disney has had 11 films. And with barely half as many films, Pixar killed Disney by roughly $300 million.
More bang for the buck if you go with Pixar movies. It isn't even a question.
You might not, but for the millions of IE users who don't know better, this will make their lives (and web developer's lives) a tad easier, even if the users don't directly notice it.
Having an attitude that you don't care simply because you don't use it doesn't mean that it doesn't effect someone else.
If I remember right, he had a camera (maybe when iPhoto first came out?) that crapped out. He ended up tossing the camera off the stage.
I guess a Yahoo PR guy wanted a date with an Apple lawyer chick.
The thing about Microsoft is they are too willing to bend over backwards for backwards compatibility. Yeah it is great you can run on XP almost ever Windows app ever created...but that has come at a steep price: security.
That is why IE has been so hard for them to secure, or why the latest vulnerability affects a part of Windows dating back to 3.0.
You know why Microsoft won't fix it? Because they have so many businesses that rely on old software (the classic why upgrade from Office 97 argument).
If Microsoft really could or cared, they wouldn't have waitied till Windows Vista to fix the "let's run every as administrator" mistake they made.
Cry me a river.
I was posting because I was adding something to the conversation, not because I have a referral link in my sig.
How about instead of bitching about another user, YOU help out and post how unregistering the DLL done.
Yeah because 98% of PC users know how to disable the offending DLL. Heck, 98% of PC users don't even know what a DLL is.
What is the over/under for Microsoft getting a patch out for this?
If there is a time to deviate from their monthly patch cycle, this is it. The patch should have been out days ago, yet we are still waiting.
And Microsoft wonders why no one takes their security promises seriously.
Except Linux/Apache are free.
Which is a major selling point, especially if you have the time to learn how to use them.
Not only are you using an ancient version of WordPress, you are using one that has some serious security issues. You need to invest in making it work.
I have gotten WordPress 1.5 to work on Windows before just fine, even with Apache running in Windows.
Haven't tried it with version 2.0, but that is due to me moving to OS X and not bothering to boot up the Windows laptop to give it a shot...
Actually, there is a beta of Google Earth that leaked for OS X.
You are correct. Adium X is basically gaim with a pretty GUI.
Best IM software on OS X, by far.
Simple really. Google keeps AOL from Microsoft.
Google is used by AOL Search right now. Just the amount of traffic and ad revenue from that results in like $400 million per year in Google's coffers and is 10% of their traffic.
Without AOL, it deals a decent blow to Google, especially if it were Microsoft who takes it.
I'm sure this deal will result in a tighter integration between Google and AOL services. Perhaps AIM will be opened up for real to any client, especially GTalk. Perhaps Gmail (or at least its interface) will replace AOL Mail.
Who knows.
The main thing though is that Google is paying $1 billion, but will easily recoup that due to the $400+ million a year in revenue it gets from AOL to begin with. This deal is all about preventing Microsoft from expanding in the search area.
1) Document everything: what you fixed, how you fixed it, error messages, etc. It makes it so much easier to look at a list of common errors users in a particular company encounter. It is also great to say that you cleaned out spyware x # of times in the past month from one machine.
2) Patience is key: Explain questions in simple terms and a user will provide the information back. Might take a little work to understand what is exactly going on, but if the user loses confidence in you, then you won't have an easy time finding/fixing the problem.
3) If you can, be there in person (or at least remotely): If you can see an issue with your own eyes, the solution is likely to come very quickly. If you are forced to do it over the phone with no remote access to the machine, it is going to take a long time to solve.
Pretty hard to use Firefox for 5 years since Phoenix 0.1 (the first release of what became Firefox) didn't come out until September 23rd, 2002.
1.5 definitely has speed improvements. I don't notice the memory issues anymore and it doesn't bother me.
If you use Google Desktop, it can save a copy of your Gmail for offline searching.
Unless you are on a Mac or Linux that is.
You can't claim ignorance when it comes to something like this. That DRM was basically distributed with the Sony logo attached to it. If they were dumb enough to purchase it for use in their own products, they are dumb enough to have responsibility for it.
Amen to that. Linux wireless is beyond pathetic.
A few weeks ago I tried out Linux, downloading a couple of distros (Ubuntu and SUSE) that were recommended to me.
I was plesantly surprised that these distros detected the hardware on my Toshiba laptop as well as it did.
Except for the wireless card (a Linkyss WPC54G), since I wasn't about to run a cat5 cable across the apartment for an laptop.
So I rebooted into Windows, saved to a flash drive all the instructions and files I supposedly needed to get wireless working, and rebooted back into Linux.
I managed after 3 hours to get Linux to detect the wireless card and get ndis_wrapper to work.
Then came the work to get WPA working. I downloaded the wpa_supplement. No luck getting it to connect to the wireless router for 3 more hours. I wasn't about to use the broken WEP encryption either.
Then there is the fact that is beyond pathetic how you choose to connect to wireless networks. From what I could gather, I had to type a bunch of commands in order to connect to a single network. How the hell am I supposed to do this for the many wireless networks I connect to at clients?
In the end, I determined linux wireless is a joke. I understand needing to install a driver (that was actually the easy part). But how about an easy way to connect to wireless networks AND to connect using WPA?
That can't be too difficult.
Why would Sony include LAME (or parts of it) in with this rootkit? LAME is just a mp3 encoder.
Unless Sony wanted high quality mp3's made from the CD (which I seriously doubt for some strange reason), I don't get why they would put it in there.
It isn't like LAME has any DRM itself. Far from that.
Anyone have any ideas?
Oh the horror, someone telling me that I might get a better price somewhere else!!!
Only works in IE.
How about a full exchange of that CD for a new one without the DRM and the rootkit?
I hope someone sues them just to get such an exchange program going.
Has Microsoft ever taken responsibilty for their own mistakes?
Anyone?