As an IT director, I am responsible for ensuring connectivity and bandwidth for my company. As part of this job function, from time to time, I turn on "monitoring" on my firewall. This doesn't tell me who is doing what... it just tells me what sites are being hit.
This is a great way to do statistical monitoring without intruding on one particular person's privacy. If I notice that more than a little of our traffic is going to MySpace or the porn flavor of the day, I re-send out a reminder of the AUP to all staff. (I also remind people that, with VNC, I can observe their screen directly (not that I would, except for tech support-related issues, but I want them to know that anyone in IT could)). After that, the non-work traffic dwindles to next to nil.
Isn't that a better way of doing it all around?
P.S. FWIW, my firewall is a ZyXel, and that behavior is the default functionality. I would have to install separate software to log what each individual is doing, and... why would I want to? The real issue (at least from an IT perspective) isn't who is abusing company resources... only that the abuse stop.
There are several open source voting machine projects on SourceForge. WTF is our problem for not getting our governments to use the auditable machines?
Or what about open source governance? Isn't it time to get rid of the institutions that are based on those of our pre-human ancestors? How about a little technology in our government?
The green button is a simulation of the right-size button in OS 9. That button actually worked. The green button is, as you say, worse than useless. However, your other criticisms are off-base.
The dock is not homosexual, afaik.
The default behavior for double-clicking a window in OS X 10.4 is to minimize the window.
Command-clicking the text in the title of a Title Bar allows one to navigate the folder's entire directory tree. This has been true for all OS Xs. There's also the sidebar in Tiger which gives one powerful navigation tools.
It sounds like you're judging OS X based on version 10.1 or 10.2. You may want to give 10.5 a try.
I am sure they will give you a refund for every legal song you buy... right?
After all, all they care about is you and your enjoyment of music. Making hordes of money they never earned is somewhere near the bottom of their priority list, I am sure.
Cool! Someone has come up with a whole new set of potential security holes in the classically unsecure Windows environment. This ought to be interesting...
Sure, there are RFCs and other standards to ensure that if an e-mail isn't delivered, someone is notified, but those are hardly written in stone. Sometimes e-mail just disappears into the wonderful world of dev/null.
There is never, ever any absolute guarantee that an e-mail is going to reach its destination, just as there is no way of knowing if that letter you drop in a mailbox is really going to go where it is supposed to.
If you're trying to maintain a discussion, use a bulletin board. There you can see whether your message was posted, and... as long as the host is up, other people will see what you see.
In any event, people gotta learn that technology is never 100% reliable. You'd think we'd understand this by now.
Funny... but the Apple facility in question is a tech support center, not a programming house. Phone tech support is a service job, and there are indeed plenty of American unions covering such jobs.
But my point was that American unions have set a general standard for American workers, not just for their specific market segments. As long as Americans think we are the greatest people in the world and deserve twenty times the pay of other people... we shouldn't be surprised when employers decide that a little less quality is worth a 90% cost savings. It is our own arrogance which got us here, and only a little humility will get us out.
Unions are losing ALL their members... because all of the jobs their members do are being exported. What good is a union that protects zero workers?
It is in the interest of every union member to see better labor standards throughout the world. Until unions realize this simple truth, they are doomed to driving themselves out of work.
At one time, unions were sorely needed in the U.S. Workers had no rights and were thoroughly abused by rampant capitalists. The unions did a good thing there.
Then the unions kept going, demanding more and more. Now in some cases, the work doesn't get done at all because the union guys are too busy taking breaks, waiting for wacky regulations to be met, demanding pay raises, waiting for a seventh guy to show up before they can move a chair... all that unbelievably abusive stuff that unions do now.
So while laborers in third world countries suffer under miserable conditions, American unions keep fighting for higher wages and, well... less work. Is it any wonder American jobs are flying out of the country?
If anyone is interested in a solution to this seemingly intractable problem, there is one and only one: for American Unions to stop fighting for ridiculous benefits in the states and instead to focus ALL of their attention on third world countries.
If Americans stopped getting lazier and if third world workers started getting some equity... presto... these enormous disparities between our workers would start to diminish.
I would say that you've never had the pleasure of having to deal with being blacklisted by an unreasonable asshole.
Actually, I have been the target of blacklisting by idiocy, and it did indeed suck. I agree that sometimes one can end up on a blacklist for the wrong reasons.
However, I said that it is only the major spammers who have action taken against them. The ones who end up getting sued, prosecuted, banned by ISPs, kicked off by hosts, blacklisted on all many blacklists at once, and yes... kicked off by their registrar.
"Now all one needs to shut down a site is a few reports of spamming, and the domain (or even better, all domains of a given small registrar) will be suspended."
This demonstrates a poor understanding of how blacklisting works and how anti-spam actions are taken. Spammers who have actions taken against them usually have thousands of reports against them, from hundreds or thousands of disparate sources, over an extended period of time.
Registrars are private entities... InterNIC is from last millennium.
If you want to enforce that registrars cannot impose restrictions on their clients, then what kind of slippery slope are you encouraging?
Are you saying that the worst murderous mobsters can operate massive criminal enterprises on a website hosted in an anarchistic country and their registrar should be prevented from denying them service?
I simply dispute the idea that open source software doesn't get respect unless it is part of a 100% open stack. There seem to be a good number of projects aimed specifically at OS X and apple products despite the fact that large parts of OS X are not open source.
Mac OS X is very different from Windows in that it is built largely out of open source tools. The Darwin project delivers a significant part of the OS, and many of the features added onto OS X are open.
For example, in OS X, when you turn on "Personal Web Sharing" on a Mac, you are actually launching Apache, the open source project running about 80% of all websites. Taking the model further, Mac OS X Server is little more than a carefully constructed concatenation of numerous OSS projects... each one with it's own marketing name, but BSD-based open source code nonetheless.
True some Mac stuff is rather closed, and some of their OSS-based apps cause tension with the OSS developers (I'm thinking of Safari here), but it's nothing like Windows. That's just closed from head to toe. You want in... follow Microsoft's rules and, oh, pony up some cash too thankyou.
I can't wait until VC discovers Asterisk (and Digium, the company behind the project).
It's a no-brainer, in terms of market and community. And it's a classic open source project, in that it ties into everything, does everything, and is used by everyone.
I'll be installing next year. The more capital behind this project, the better.
And hopefully some of that capital will go to developing Mac drivers for the PCI cards.:)
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As an IT director, I am responsible for ensuring connectivity and bandwidth for my company. As part of this job function, from time to time, I turn on "monitoring" on my firewall. This doesn't tell me who is doing what... it just tells me what sites are being hit.
This is a great way to do statistical monitoring without intruding on one particular person's privacy. If I notice that more than a little of our traffic is going to MySpace or the porn flavor of the day, I re-send out a reminder of the AUP to all staff. (I also remind people that, with VNC, I can observe their screen directly (not that I would, except for tech support-related issues, but I want them to know that anyone in IT could)). After that, the non-work traffic dwindles to next to nil.
Isn't that a better way of doing it all around?
P.S. FWIW, my firewall is a ZyXel, and that behavior is the default functionality. I would have to install separate software to log what each individual is doing, and... why would I want to? The real issue (at least from an IT perspective) isn't who is abusing company resources... only that the abuse stop.
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Government of, by, and for ALL the people.
Lisa was a step in the evolution from the Apple II line to the Macintosh.
The other things on the list are dead-ends. Lisa wasn't profitable, but it also wasn't a dead-end.
Next on the list... Zune.
> "Go ahead and buy a Mac. We'll see you in court"
Turn that on it's head... Apple stands to make a TON off this...
There are several open source voting machine projects on SourceForge. WTF is our problem for not getting our governments to use the auditable machines?
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Or what about open source governance? Isn't it time to get rid of the institutions that are based on those of our pre-human ancestors? How about a little technology in our government?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_governan
http://www.metagovernment.org/
We have everything we need.
The green button is a simulation of the right-size button in OS 9. That button actually worked. The green button is, as you say, worse than useless. However, your other criticisms are off-base.
The dock is not homosexual, afaik.
The default behavior for double-clicking a window in OS X 10.4 is to minimize the window.
Command-clicking the text in the title of a Title Bar allows one to navigate the folder's entire directory tree. This has been true for all OS Xs. There's also the sidebar in Tiger which gives one powerful navigation tools.
It sounds like you're judging OS X based on version 10.1 or 10.2. You may want to give 10.5 a try.
Ya know... on further reflection, I have to admit it is flamebait. Someone go ahead and kick my karma in the crotch.
:-P
In my defense, however... in a nerd forum, practically any statement about Macs is flamebait.
Forgot a URL for that. (And no, it is NOT flamebait.)
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http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=349555
It all may be a bit irrelevant when Mac OS X 10.5 comes out...
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http://www.metagovernment.org/
Government by, of, and for the people. Serious this time.
Best response ever.
I am sure they will give you a refund for every legal song you buy... right?
After all, all they care about is you and your enjoyment of music. Making hordes of money they never earned is somewhere near the bottom of their priority list, I am sure.
As was pointed out on the macrumors.com discussion, one can e-mail Universal directly at:
communications@umusic.com
If you'd like them to know the intensity of negative feelings they are generating, this would probably be the most direct approach.
The thing about computers is that they can do the wrong thing much faster and much more reliably than humans.
Cool! Someone has come up with a whole new set of potential security holes in the classically unsecure Windows environment. This ought to be interesting...
Sure, there are RFCs and other standards to ensure that if an e-mail isn't delivered, someone is notified, but those are hardly written in stone. Sometimes e-mail just disappears into the wonderful world of dev/null.
There is never, ever any absolute guarantee that an e-mail is going to reach its destination, just as there is no way of knowing if that letter you drop in a mailbox is really going to go where it is supposed to.
If you're trying to maintain a discussion, use a bulletin board. There you can see whether your message was posted, and... as long as the host is up, other people will see what you see.
In any event, people gotta learn that technology is never 100% reliable. You'd think we'd understand this by now.
Funny... but the Apple facility in question is a tech support center, not a programming house. Phone tech support is a service job, and there are indeed plenty of American unions covering such jobs.
But my point was that American unions have set a general standard for American workers, not just for their specific market segments. As long as Americans think we are the greatest people in the world and deserve twenty times the pay of other people... we shouldn't be surprised when employers decide that a little less quality is worth a 90% cost savings. It is our own arrogance which got us here, and only a little humility will get us out.
Unions are losing ALL their members... because all of the jobs their members do are being exported. What good is a union that protects zero workers?
It is in the interest of every union member to see better labor standards throughout the world. Until unions realize this simple truth, they are doomed to driving themselves out of work.
Microsoft has never missed a deadline before. Nor have they ever released vaporware.
What ever could be the problem?
At one time, unions were sorely needed in the U.S. Workers had no rights and were thoroughly abused by rampant capitalists. The unions did a good thing there.
Then the unions kept going, demanding more and more. Now in some cases, the work doesn't get done at all because the union guys are too busy taking breaks, waiting for wacky regulations to be met, demanding pay raises, waiting for a seventh guy to show up before they can move a chair... all that unbelievably abusive stuff that unions do now.
So while laborers in third world countries suffer under miserable conditions, American unions keep fighting for higher wages and, well... less work. Is it any wonder American jobs are flying out of the country?
If anyone is interested in a solution to this seemingly intractable problem, there is one and only one: for American Unions to stop fighting for ridiculous benefits in the states and instead to focus ALL of their attention on third world countries.
If Americans stopped getting lazier and if third world workers started getting some equity... presto... these enormous disparities between our workers would start to diminish.
I would say that you've never had the pleasure of having to deal with being blacklisted by an unreasonable asshole.
Actually, I have been the target of blacklisting by idiocy, and it did indeed suck. I agree that sometimes one can end up on a blacklist for the wrong reasons.
However, I said that it is only the major spammers who have action taken against them. The ones who end up getting sued, prosecuted, banned by ISPs, kicked off by hosts, blacklisted on all many blacklists at once, and yes... kicked off by their registrar.
You seem to have forgotten to indicate any reason why you would see this as acceptable. Why would you force registrars to act according to your will?
"Now all one needs to shut down a site is a few reports of spamming, and the domain (or even better, all domains of a given small registrar) will be suspended."
This demonstrates a poor understanding of how blacklisting works and how anti-spam actions are taken. Spammers who have actions taken against them usually have thousands of reports against them, from hundreds or thousands of disparate sources, over an extended period of time.
Registrars are private entities... InterNIC is from last millennium.
If you want to enforce that registrars cannot impose restrictions on their clients, then what kind of slippery slope are you encouraging?
Are you saying that the worst murderous mobsters can operate massive criminal enterprises on a website hosted in an anarchistic country and their registrar should be prevented from denying them service?
Mac OS X is very different from Windows in that it is built largely out of open source tools. The Darwin project delivers a significant part of the OS, and many of the features added onto OS X are open.
For example, in OS X, when you turn on "Personal Web Sharing" on a Mac, you are actually launching Apache, the open source project running about 80% of all websites. Taking the model further, Mac OS X Server is little more than a carefully constructed concatenation of numerous OSS projects... each one with it's own marketing name, but BSD-based open source code nonetheless.
True some Mac stuff is rather closed, and some of their OSS-based apps cause tension with the OSS developers (I'm thinking of Safari here), but it's nothing like Windows. That's just closed from head to toe. You want in... follow Microsoft's rules and, oh, pony up some cash too thankyou.
It's a no-brainer, in terms of market and community. And it's a classic open source project, in that it ties into everything, does everything, and is used by everyone.
I'll be installing next year. The more capital behind this project, the better.
And hopefully some of that capital will go to developing Mac drivers for the PCI cards. :)