Perhaps if you weren't so narrow minded. I work for a company that requires a broadband connection at remote sites, residential and commercial. We operate out of every major city in the US and Canada, and 60% of the cities in the US have major issues regarding broadband. Half of them are still rolling out cable, telephone wiring infrastructure is horrible. So before you speak with gibberish, think for a second.
Don't be so ignorant. End users have more rights installing software than the creators of the software do. You are saying that if they decide to do so, they could install keyloggers to trap your credit card info, so they can pull money off your card, in order to compensate themselves. Don't be so foolish.
They create software. They are not and should not group spyware with their apps. Plain and simple, if they can't afford to keep their software project up without spyware, then either find another way to fund the operation, or don't start at all. What happened to people actually using their heads and devising a CLEAVER way to make money off of their software, without resorting to dirty tricks?
And if you think they didn't know what they were getting into, you're wrong. How can you claim total ignorance to an app packaged along with your app??? That's deception at its finest, gentlemen.
Whenever a piece of software find its home on my hard drive, I SHOULD and MUST have knowledge of 3rd party appz that come with it. It is absolutely horrible business strategy to attempt to force users to install spyware.
To those that don't really care, and to those tho argue that file sharing isn't free... Napster never had spyware, it didn't punish its userbase with spyware, and trojans to track your web habits. If a file sharing program is to be adopted globally, it must be done right, or not at all. I understand that these companies need to make money somehow, but this is totally wrong. This type of behavior will lead to horrible things in the future. It is those people who are passive on these topics that doom the rest of us. All it will take, one day, is a really nasty worm virus to begin spreading through an application that so many people have (Windows comes to mind). And I also know for a fact, that 80% of the Kazaa and Morpheus userbase are irresponsible users that could care less about viruses and trojans as long as they get their pr0n, mp3, and video fix.
Well boo hoo to you. You represent a very large percentage of ignorant computer users who shouldn't have a computer to begin with. Why would you pay $1000+ to get a computer, $40 a month on broadband, and be so irresponsible with this privelige bestowed upon you? At the very least, if you are running Win32 OS's, PLEASE, FOR GOD SAKES secure your fricken boxes. That means a stateful packet inspecting firewall with rules, a competent virus scanner, and some common sense.
You guys should see my snort logs... So many unsuspecting users running a form of a web server unknowingly, and blasting others on their network segment with port scans and trojans trying to find others to play with. Seriously, I've had enough of those with no common sense.
When you buy a car, you don't leave your keys in the door.. Don't do the same with your OS if you choose to run Windows, and can't secure the box. At least hire someone to take a look at that mess of a box you call yours, and reccomend a solution to you. Or at the very least, install linux, run iptables with string matching, an IDS, and Kazaa, and have fun!.
Coyoteguy
Sick of all those insecure Win32 boxes in the hands of 13 year olds addicted to pr0n.
I'm sorry if it annoys you that I'm 23 years old, enourmously successful in my field, and have held positions and still holding positions that others would love to have. See, now I have a problem with your comment on young, inexperienced people. Geez, how many years experience do you expect someone to have with NT4, or the 2.2 kernel? How much experience do you expect someone to have with laying fiber inter-connects, PIX, and CISCO gateways, omg the list goes on and on. Seriously, I like having young blood around for many reasons. 1) Young people dont get all hard up on issues.. Seriously, all you 40+ people sit there bitter, muttering under your breath, no shower for days, and you don't care what you look like. As for young people, they are, on the most part, very happy they have their position. They have a different frame of mind, and like I mentioned earlier, always have my companies interests in before theirs. I am paying you to work for MY company, not to sit in your chair, uttering threats to a NT box just because is BSOD'd 5 times in a row. I am just al qualified as anyone I have ever met to do the job I do. I honestly don't think someone older than me could do what I do in my company. I keep my office morale very high, and if more corporate suits had my mentality about the office culture, we wouldn't be talking about this right now. Most offices, everyone is scared to even open their mouth. My office knows what to say, when to say it, and who to say it to without having to read the "Art of War". Let's just say that if I EVER hired someone who was older, boasts 20+ years experience blah blah and I can tell for a second he is looking at me like "Stupid kid", I would have him making network cables and taking out the trash for weeks.
I really hate your point of view, but regardless, you are entitles to it. I can see the value in a field like project creation and programming where exp goes a long way in logical think patterns. But I stressed from my original post that we are a networking consulting group. Anyways, I trust that you are an open minded individual and you can take what I say with a grain of salt... Most of my mentors are 20 years older than me. I remember one of my earlier mentors, a *nix guru. He was the proprieter of a cluster, and he taught be everything that I know to this day about *nix. And he knew from day one of my worth, and he was not afraid to admit that I was worth threefold what I was making at that point. And guess what? He was right. Sounds cocky, but if I gave in to every person that looked down on me, I definately wouldn't be in the spot i'm in at the present. So don't think I'm young and cocky, think of me as being on the ball, and worth every penny of what I make.
Well, I see that you are the type of hiring manager that instantly can dismiss a young persons experience. I am 23 years old, and have relenquished my reigns there as Chief System Administrator for a large North American Company. Granted I have only been there 11 months, my previous job was a Network Administrator for 1.5 years. Previous to that, I worked for AT&T in their enriched technology department for 2 years.
Oh, and did I mention that I have a very successful security consulting company since '98? This is the reason I am leaving. Let's see... 3 years solid experience right there as CEO and CTO. AT&T gave me 2 years full time, my NA position gave me a year and a half, and my current job is almost 1 year. That's 5 years of SOLID FULL TIME "real world" experience. Honestly, every chance I get, I have been known to terminate cocky, arrogant, anti-social techies who believe they are the end-all to my company's problems. They always tend to take a project, insert their own conjecture, and botch it up, giving excuses such as "our department heads are un-cooperative and I get no co-ordination" etc etc. But when I investigate the situation, it is always the cocky project manager pushing and shoving his way through, barking at people. This is not the type of individual I need around. I am the type of person who buys a round of chinese food every Friday for my tech team, and we sit down for an hour, sometimes two.. Talking about potential problems, personal life, weekend plans, anything and everything. That's because if my employees feel comfortable talking to their CEO, they WILL PERFORM AT A GREATER LEVEL. They have pride in the company, they work to ensure that the companys best interests are always first.
I have been involved in projects that would make you drop your jaw. I have overseen them from start to finish either as CTO or CEO. And we have always met all our objectives ON TIME, with no excuses. I have seen how some project mamangers work, and believe me, if it was legal to whack them over the head for every time they come to me and get up on their high horse, trying to down talk to me because of my age.. Well, let's just say that 90% of the so-called "Project Managers" out there would have an extreme headache every time they stepped into my office. Not to mention mine from their arrogant, un-humble behavior.
Anyways, I am living proof of what can happen when you ignore 80% of the heresay about young tech people, and laugh at the other 20% for their ignorance. I can spot a phonie youngun a mile away.
So I sit here, in my home.. On a Sunday afternoon, laughing to myself as I read all the older people kick up dust, while I get ready to go get blasted on New Years eve. Yes, I even go to the clubs and have a social life!!
So please, everyone, this is not an age thing. When you look at a young person, look at their integrity... Look at their people skills, look at their potential dedication to the company. Every single employee I have ALWAYS has my company's best interest in their mind, in everything they do. Well, except for my Chief Systems Admin, he can do whatever he wants and put it on his resume, because he's 20 and I know how it felt being young and wanting to have a few extra bullets under my job position on my resume. Why do you think we're a *NIX house?:)
First of all, your comments on Flash are entirely unsubstanciated. Do you want to know why Linux hasn't caught on? It's because Linux users and developers are self-centered, egotistical, psychotic people. Seriously, I am a young professional, and I use Linux for our network services at work. But for someone to write off Flash as a medium to communicate is ridiculous. You have this beautiful technology that will work on 85% of the worlds browsers.. And on 90% of the sites that incorporate Flash, they give you the option to use HTML, why would you say something like Flash is a cheesy, useless animation protocol? It is a change from watching plain, boring, stagnant information.
Linux is fun, but with narrow-minded thinking rom Linux users and developers.. We're not all sitting at shell prompts all day, some of us actually work in the multimedia industry, where image is a vital part of a product. If you can't display flash in your browser, that's like saying... This car has tires, but you can't travel down the nice highways. It's just not capable/nor made to do that.
Please rethink your stance on Open software, and the linux movement. I am keenly waiting for the moment that Linux meets all my needs, and I WILL migrate. But until the Linux user/developer cliche lives on, I'm sticking with Windows.
What we really need to do is have a bright red light on the back of all new cars that would warn others around them that they are talking on a cell phone. I would steer clear of anyone with the light on.
Well I work for a company in Richmond BC, Canada. We ship at least 2 monitors a day via Greyhound Ground Service or Canada Post XPressPost. Not once in the two years I have been there as IT Manager, have we had one shipment that has arrived at its destination broken. Most of our shipments are insured, but like in the case above, international shipments are uninsured. I can't see how UPS handles your packages to destroy them like that. Its amazing the lack of effort they excert to keep the safety of your package in mind. At least Greyhound pads their bus cargo doors heh.
(AMD) Yes, but our 1400Mhz chip performs almost identically and is way cheaper.
Where is the fairness in that? Do you not have enough thinking power to keep a table of AthlonXP model #'s and Mhz speeds in your head? I think it will be the first major step at getting away from Mhz ratings, where different CPU manufacturers can engineer chips to have multi-functions per clock cycle.
I can't believe you're crying over this. This isn't deception, this is AMD realizing what a rip off Intel is.
I don't get it... You must have been that geek in my grade school classes that got his lights punched out at recess, never fight back, and wonder why they keep picking on you. It is a worldwide human reaction. If someone threatens you, and you have the means to retaliate to prevent future "incidents", then you should by all means.
My father also taught me that if someone ever physically attacks you, you better do your damn best to make him hurt even more. It is an attack on your state of mind, as well as being a physical attack. Why would you let someone keep beating you up? They are enstilling fear into you, and every time you let them continue, you are contributing to their action.
We must go into Afghanistan, neutralize the terrorist forces, as well as the government that allows terrorism to grow. Bin Laden attacked us from out of nowhere literally. He attacked innocent people, thousands of them... Now these crackheads on./ think we should settle this peacefully? Heck, we gave them a month to turn him over.... Why are they being so protective of him? BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS HIS PUPPET! THE GOVERNMENT BELIEVES IN KILLING AMERICANS. It is like a best friend betraying you for a covert purpose. Heck, I've had friends in real life turn around and backstab me... Bin Laden is just taking advantage of the situation, and if nutcases like you p*ssyfooted./ posters had anything to do with it, we'd all be dead already.
Seriously, if someone had a major beef with you, and had the mentality to kill, I'll give you a microphone, and him a machine gun... We'll see who leaves the room alive.
For God's sake, wake up out of that fairy tale where you're smokin pot, waving flowers around... And do us all a favor, and just hope and pray our campaign is sucessful in eliminating a WORLD THREAT. That is all I have to say.
Well, you must have stopped using your fingers to count in Grade 12, because you would realize that most of the upgrading they did is what gives it the price it has. And if you would do more digging, you would realize that even on their website, it is advertised at a cool mil. How would you expect a business pair to do 700-800k in renovations, and try to sell it for $200k?
Please crawl into one of these. I will telegraph Osama Bin laden your co-ordiantes and tell him its the new location of Camp David.
I have the 46GB Deskstar, and it died the exact same way you describe. Loud noises, then bang. I also have an IBM 15GB Deskstar that is failing. Every once in awhile when i boot, the bios detects the drive as a whacked out part # instead of the real one. The name has ascii chars in it. I think i will shy away from IBM drives in the future.
Well, we won't be laughing as hard in a few months when your US dollar won't even buy you a 5 cent gum up here. Please refrain from direct slandering of other countries in public forums.
Canada has its ups and downs, one of its ups being that Canada is the safest country to live in. So yes, your money is worth more... But will you trade that for your safety? hah Let me grab my pillow and relax, while you have your hand on a switch, ready to hit it at the smallest sound.
OK, are you guys blind? The foiled first contact was the humans shooting the Klingon, then nursing him back to health. A HUGE no-no in the Klingon Empire.
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Perhaps if you weren't so narrow minded. I work for a company that requires a broadband connection at remote sites, residential and commercial. We operate out of every major city in the US and Canada, and 60% of the cities in the US have major issues regarding broadband. Half of them are still rolling out cable, telephone wiring infrastructure is horrible. So before you speak with gibberish, think for a second.
Don't be so ignorant. End users have more rights installing software than the creators of the software do. You are saying that if they decide to do so, they could install keyloggers to trap your credit card info, so they can pull money off your card, in order to compensate themselves. Don't be so foolish.
They create software. They are not and should not group spyware with their apps. Plain and simple, if they can't afford to keep their software project up without spyware, then either find another way to fund the operation, or don't start at all. What happened to people actually using their heads and devising a CLEAVER way to make money off of their software, without resorting to dirty tricks?
And if you think they didn't know what they were getting into, you're wrong. How can you claim total ignorance to an app packaged along with your app??? That's deception at its finest, gentlemen.
Whenever a piece of software find its home on my hard drive, I SHOULD and MUST have knowledge of 3rd party appz that come with it. It is absolutely horrible business strategy to attempt to force users to install spyware. To those that don't really care, and to those tho argue that file sharing isn't free... Napster never had spyware, it didn't punish its userbase with spyware, and trojans to track your web habits. If a file sharing program is to be adopted globally, it must be done right, or not at all. I understand that these companies need to make money somehow, but this is totally wrong. This type of behavior will lead to horrible things in the future. It is those people who are passive on these topics that doom the rest of us. All it will take, one day, is a really nasty worm virus to begin spreading through an application that so many people have (Windows comes to mind). And I also know for a fact, that 80% of the Kazaa and Morpheus userbase are irresponsible users that could care less about viruses and trojans as long as they get their pr0n, mp3, and video fix. Well boo hoo to you. You represent a very large percentage of ignorant computer users who shouldn't have a computer to begin with. Why would you pay $1000+ to get a computer, $40 a month on broadband, and be so irresponsible with this privelige bestowed upon you? At the very least, if you are running Win32 OS's, PLEASE, FOR GOD SAKES secure your fricken boxes. That means a stateful packet inspecting firewall with rules, a competent virus scanner, and some common sense. You guys should see my snort logs... So many unsuspecting users running a form of a web server unknowingly, and blasting others on their network segment with port scans and trojans trying to find others to play with. Seriously, I've had enough of those with no common sense. When you buy a car, you don't leave your keys in the door.. Don't do the same with your OS if you choose to run Windows, and can't secure the box. At least hire someone to take a look at that mess of a box you call yours, and reccomend a solution to you. Or at the very least, install linux, run iptables with string matching, an IDS, and Kazaa, and have fun!. Coyoteguy Sick of all those insecure Win32 boxes in the hands of 13 year olds addicted to pr0n.
And this is useful information on the topic of supercharging WAP's because.....?
I'm sorry if it annoys you that I'm 23 years old, enourmously successful in my field, and have held positions and still holding positions that others would love to have. See, now I have a problem with your comment on young, inexperienced people. Geez, how many years experience do you expect someone to have with NT4, or the 2.2 kernel? How much experience do you expect someone to have with laying fiber inter-connects, PIX, and CISCO gateways, omg the list goes on and on. Seriously, I like having young blood around for many reasons. 1) Young people dont get all hard up on issues.. Seriously, all you 40+ people sit there bitter, muttering under your breath, no shower for days, and you don't care what you look like. As for young people, they are, on the most part, very happy they have their position. They have a different frame of mind, and like I mentioned earlier, always have my companies interests in before theirs. I am paying you to work for MY company, not to sit in your chair, uttering threats to a NT box just because is BSOD'd 5 times in a row. I am just al qualified as anyone I have ever met to do the job I do. I honestly don't think someone older than me could do what I do in my company. I keep my office morale very high, and if more corporate suits had my mentality about the office culture, we wouldn't be talking about this right now. Most offices, everyone is scared to even open their mouth. My office knows what to say, when to say it, and who to say it to without having to read the "Art of War". Let's just say that if I EVER hired someone who was older, boasts 20+ years experience blah blah and I can tell for a second he is looking at me like "Stupid kid", I would have him making network cables and taking out the trash for weeks.
I really hate your point of view, but regardless, you are entitles to it. I can see the value in a field like project creation and programming where exp goes a long way in logical think patterns. But I stressed from my original post that we are a networking consulting group. Anyways, I trust that you are an open minded individual and you can take what I say with a grain of salt... Most of my mentors are 20 years older than me. I remember one of my earlier mentors, a *nix guru. He was the proprieter of a cluster, and he taught be everything that I know to this day about *nix. And he knew from day one of my worth, and he was not afraid to admit that I was worth threefold what I was making at that point. And guess what? He was right. Sounds cocky, but if I gave in to every person that looked down on me, I definately wouldn't be in the spot i'm in at the present. So don't think I'm young and cocky, think of me as being on the ball, and worth every penny of what I make.
Coyoteguy
Well, I see that you are the type of hiring manager that instantly can dismiss a young persons experience. I am 23 years old, and have relenquished my reigns there as Chief System Administrator for a large North American Company. Granted I have only been there 11 months, my previous job was a Network Administrator for 1.5 years. Previous to that, I worked for AT&T in their enriched technology department for 2 years.
:)
Oh, and did I mention that I have a very successful security consulting company since '98? This is the reason I am leaving. Let's see... 3 years solid experience right there as CEO and CTO. AT&T gave me 2 years full time, my NA position gave me a year and a half, and my current job is almost 1 year. That's 5 years of SOLID FULL TIME "real world" experience. Honestly, every chance I get, I have been known to terminate cocky, arrogant, anti-social techies who believe they are the end-all to my company's problems. They always tend to take a project, insert their own conjecture, and botch it up, giving excuses such as "our department heads are un-cooperative and I get no co-ordination" etc etc. But when I investigate the situation, it is always the cocky project manager pushing and shoving his way through, barking at people. This is not the type of individual I need around. I am the type of person who buys a round of chinese food every Friday for my tech team, and we sit down for an hour, sometimes two.. Talking about potential problems, personal life, weekend plans, anything and everything. That's because if my employees feel comfortable talking to their CEO, they WILL PERFORM AT A GREATER LEVEL. They have pride in the company, they work to ensure that the companys best interests are always first.
I have been involved in projects that would make you drop your jaw. I have overseen them from start to finish either as CTO or CEO. And we have always met all our objectives ON TIME, with no excuses. I have seen how some project mamangers work, and believe me, if it was legal to whack them over the head for every time they come to me and get up on their high horse, trying to down talk to me because of my age.. Well, let's just say that 90% of the so-called "Project Managers" out there would have an extreme headache every time they stepped into my office. Not to mention mine from their arrogant, un-humble behavior.
Anyways, I am living proof of what can happen when you ignore 80% of the heresay about young tech people, and laugh at the other 20% for their ignorance. I can spot a phonie youngun a mile away.
So I sit here, in my home.. On a Sunday afternoon, laughing to myself as I read all the older people kick up dust, while I get ready to go get blasted on New Years eve. Yes, I even go to the clubs and have a social life!!
So please, everyone, this is not an age thing. When you look at a young person, look at their integrity... Look at their people skills, look at their potential dedication to the company. Every single employee I have ALWAYS has my company's best interest in their mind, in everything they do. Well, except for my Chief Systems Admin, he can do whatever he wants and put it on his resume, because he's 20 and I know how it felt being young and wanting to have a few extra bullets under my job position on my resume. Why do you think we're a *NIX house?
Coyoteguy
23 and proud of it
First of all, your comments on Flash are entirely unsubstanciated. Do you want to know why Linux hasn't caught on? It's because Linux users and developers are self-centered, egotistical, psychotic people. Seriously, I am a young professional, and I use Linux for our network services at work. But for someone to write off Flash as a medium to communicate is ridiculous. You have this beautiful technology that will work on 85% of the worlds browsers.. And on 90% of the sites that incorporate Flash, they give you the option to use HTML, why would you say something like Flash is a cheesy, useless animation protocol? It is a change from watching plain, boring, stagnant information.
Linux is fun, but with narrow-minded thinking rom Linux users and developers.. We're not all sitting at shell prompts all day, some of us actually work in the multimedia industry, where image is a vital part of a product. If you can't display flash in your browser, that's like saying... This car has tires, but you can't travel down the nice highways. It's just not capable/nor made to do that.
Please rethink your stance on Open software, and the linux movement. I am keenly waiting for the moment that Linux meets all my needs, and I WILL migrate. But until the Linux user/developer cliche lives on, I'm sticking with Windows.
Coyoteguy
What we really need to do is have a bright red light on the back of all new cars that would warn others around them that they are talking on a cell phone. I would steer clear of anyone with the light on.
Well I work for a company in Richmond BC, Canada. We ship at least 2 monitors a day via Greyhound Ground Service or Canada Post XPressPost. Not once in the two years I have been there as IT Manager, have we had one shipment that has arrived at its destination broken. Most of our shipments are insured, but like in the case above, international shipments are uninsured. I can't see how UPS handles your packages to destroy them like that. Its amazing the lack of effort they excert to keep the safety of your package in mind. At least Greyhound pads their bus cargo doors heh.
Ok there buddy. I don't see your point here..
(Intel) I have a 2000Mhz chip
(AMD) Yes, but our 1400Mhz chip performs almost identically and is way cheaper.
Where is the fairness in that? Do you not have enough thinking power to keep a table of AthlonXP model #'s and Mhz speeds in your head? I think it will be the first major step at getting away from Mhz ratings, where different CPU manufacturers can engineer chips to have multi-functions per clock cycle.
I can't believe you're crying over this. This isn't deception, this is AMD realizing what a rip off Intel is.
I don't get it... You must have been that geek in my grade school classes that got his lights punched out at recess, never fight back, and wonder why they keep picking on you. It is a worldwide human reaction. If someone threatens you, and you have the means to retaliate to prevent future "incidents", then you should by all means.
./ think we should settle this peacefully? Heck, we gave them a month to turn him over.... Why are they being so protective of him? BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS HIS PUPPET! THE GOVERNMENT BELIEVES IN KILLING AMERICANS. It is like a best friend betraying you for a covert purpose. Heck, I've had friends in real life turn around and backstab me... Bin Laden is just taking advantage of the situation, and if nutcases like you p*ssyfooted ./ posters had anything to do with it, we'd all be dead already.
My father also taught me that if someone ever physically attacks you, you better do your damn best to make him hurt even more. It is an attack on your state of mind, as well as being a physical attack. Why would you let someone keep beating you up? They are enstilling fear into you, and every time you let them continue, you are contributing to their action.
We must go into Afghanistan, neutralize the terrorist forces, as well as the government that allows terrorism to grow. Bin Laden attacked us from out of nowhere literally. He attacked innocent people, thousands of them... Now these crackheads on
Seriously, if someone had a major beef with you, and had the mentality to kill, I'll give you a microphone, and him a machine gun... We'll see who leaves the room alive.
For God's sake, wake up out of that fairy tale where you're smokin pot, waving flowers around... And do us all a favor, and just hope and pray our campaign is sucessful in eliminating a WORLD THREAT. That is all I have to say.
What university or college did you receive your education from?
No, Sesame Street and Pokemon don't count as educational facilities.
Well, you must have stopped using your fingers to count in Grade 12, because you would realize that most of the upgrading they did is what gives it the price it has. And if you would do more digging, you would realize that even on their website, it is advertised at a cool mil. How would you expect a business pair to do 700-800k in renovations, and try to sell it for $200k? Please crawl into one of these. I will telegraph Osama Bin laden your co-ordiantes and tell him its the new location of Camp David.
I have the 46GB Deskstar, and it died the exact same way you describe. Loud noises, then bang. I also have an IBM 15GB Deskstar that is failing. Every once in awhile when i boot, the bios detects the drive as a whacked out part # instead of the real one. The name has ascii chars in it. I think i will shy away from IBM drives in the future.
Well, we won't be laughing as hard in a few months when your US dollar won't even buy you a 5 cent gum up here. Please refrain from direct slandering of other countries in public forums.
Canada has its ups and downs, one of its ups being that Canada is the safest country to live in. So yes, your money is worth more... But will you trade that for your safety? hah Let me grab my pillow and relax, while you have your hand on a switch, ready to hit it at the smallest sound.
There, I'm done ranting.
OK, are you guys blind? The foiled first contact was the humans shooting the Klingon, then nursing him back to health. A HUGE no-no in the Klingon Empire.