The time it takes to patch the problem is miniscule compared to the regression testing done to make sure the patch fucks up as little as possible. They test EXTENSIVELY and even so you still get the occasional patch that interacts with other software and ways you can't predict and breaks something. It happens. Any code monkey could hack out a patch, but I know damn well they haven't tested this as much as a corporation supporting 90% of the world's browser users would. That's where the time is, so quit bitching about how long it takes to release a patch. Now, the time it takes to ACKNOWLEDGE a bug is a different story....
It's tighter than you think. That's no different than your friend allowing you to borrow his CD to make a copy, which is legal under Canadian law. Also, I believe that with most P2P software, at no time is a full copy ever present on the uploader. Sure, bits and pieces of a time are, but once those pieces are sent across the wire, the uploader dumps those copies and gets the next. Maybe P2P apps buffer a whole file in memory, but I doubt it, especially with 650 MB ISOs being transferred. Since there is no full copy, the law isn't violated.
This is why downloading is legal (you're 'borrowing' a copy, and copying it), but uploading is illegal (you're copying what you presumably own, and distributing it.)
While I'm sure there are arguments that simply posting a file via p2p is not distributing, it is merely...shall we say...making available...I would argue that the uploader is NOT copying. The downloader is actually making the permanent copy (yes, I suppose that the uploader must send a copy of the bits out over the wire, yadda yadda, but the actual reciever puts the whole thing back together again into 1 coherent file). Perhaps that's a tight legal line, but the reciever really is where the copy is completed.
While you could always roll your own solution, what you want is essentially all put together here: Mikrotik OS.
You can download the free version, or buy the whole thing installed on an IDE flash disk. You can also buy the flash disk/OS preinstalled on a SBC. Not quite free, but not badly priced either.
Yes, that's been there for some time now, though I wouldn't exactly call a.dll nonremovable. I was thinking more integrated, like tied to this crap they call palladium or ngscb or whatever the hell it is now to avoid the DOJ on a situation like the IE/Win98 debacle. Not that I think it's a good idea, just something they would try.
It has probably already happened (well, maybe in planning or alpha-stage somewhere anyway). We all know they switched to XML based file formats, under guise of "standards-compliance". Bullshit, I say. I think they are planning exactly what you say. Just think, the next version of windows could come with an fully integrated, nonremovable, XML parser/writer and bingo, instant integration. (in the take-it-in-the-ass kind of MS integration that everyone will have to pay for)
I don't give our developers root access on test machines either. I used to, until most of the test boxes got rooted in a hurry. Fortunately, our IDS picked everything up before things spread any further, but the fact still remains, many developers cannot properly secure/admin a machine. I'm not saying that all developers are this way, but I believe that very many are.
It's horrible that sysadmins have to resort to this, because as a poster above noted, it IS nearly impossible to know all the needs of the developer. However, to my company, uptime is all that counts.
IE may already have tabbed browsing
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I subscribe to MS technet, which contains a shitload of content, indexed on a CD. The interface used to navigate the index is nothing more than a front for IE (all of the index content is pretty standard HTML stuff). One thing I just noticed the other day is that if I open more than one item, it opens them a tabbed interface. Perhaps this is a special function of the interface, but like I said, it really isn't anything more than a framework for IE, so if they can do it there, why not in mainstream IE? Hell, for all I know, us technet subscribers are beta testing the tabs!
Less software means less configurability
Yeah, because pulling the block, boring it 30 over, putting in new headers, manifold, crank, cam, heads, pistons, rings, 4 bbl carbs (perhaps a predator tri-pak, and electronic ignition are oh so non-configurable!
You haven't seen configurable unless you've seen a fully tricked out 30's street rod cruising town. Now that's a car.
Halle-fucking-lujah! Why do they need laptops? Work on the basics first people! You know, the 3Rs? Teach them how to think, not use a specific technology that will be outdated before they make into HS! Concepts need to be taught at this level, not superconcrete examples.
We had a similar problem. For some reason, some machines stopped being able to open a straight linked jpeg file. It said no registered viewer. All the registered filetypes were correct, mimetypes were correct, everything. Inline jpegs worked fine, but do a straight link to one, and IE couldn't open it. Rather than screw around with it, we just set windows to open jpegs in the built in image viewer, and that worked just fine.
That's just too funny. You have to wonder how these people can serve on the board of an organization like ATA, and then turn around and not accept caller id blocked calls. How do these people sleep at night?
Using google's cache of the ATA board page and superpages.com, here are some possible home numbers of board members: (I claim NO responsibility for the accuracy of these numbers!)
Chairmain
Thomas Rocca
1014 Ector Dr Nw
Kennesaw, GA 30152
(770) 429 - 1956
Vice-Chairman
Lisa Defalco (Business Number)
TPG Telemanagement Inc
301 Oxford Valley Road, Morrisville, PA 19067
(215) 369-0979
I'll leave the lookups of the rest as an exercise for the reader:
prove it.
That's a student's word (a student possibly violating every copyright / DMCA law at that) against university staff's word. I work at a college. Even if the student is 100% telling the truth, it will likely be regarded as a lie (at least at any college I've been to).
Well, I know what I do to counter exactly this...I lock the MAC address table on the switches after the first week of school. New MAC address detected on the switch port automatically shuts off the port.
A-fucking-men to that. As the net and sysadmin for a small community college, I can feel the same way.
Our college just built dorms, so of course I have just finished building the dorm networks, and scary thoughts of lawyers and federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison were evoked when someone suggested that we add all student PCs to a Windows domain so that we could manage them. No thanks. I don't want to even know what they have on their machines, much less have admin control over them. I'll just monitor and shape/block network access as necessary, thank you very much.
That's exactly the question I was thinking of when I read how much they paid. Now, we know hotmail used to run on unix/linux, but surely there couldn't have been 8 million worth of licenses there? Also, I don't believe the linux test lab MS has set up could cost that much in licenses either. The only thing I could come up with is Services for Unix, which is based on Interix, IIRC. Maybe SCO is trying to lay claim to that as well.
unless there is a manual method to wipe the shit clean when you need to. That's all I need, some corrupted piece of shit software in RAM preventing my machine from booting.
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OK, so I'm drunk and in bad form for replying to my own post, but I justed wanted to point out to the grammar nazis that I do know the difference between your and you're and perhaps I should have hit the preview button in my previous post, though I will not do so here.
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The time it takes to patch the problem is miniscule compared to the regression testing done to make sure the patch fucks up as little as possible. They test EXTENSIVELY and even so you still get the occasional patch that interacts with other software and ways you can't predict and breaks something. It happens. Any code monkey could hack out a patch, but I know damn well they haven't tested this as much as a corporation supporting 90% of the world's browser users would. That's where the time is, so quit bitching about how long it takes to release a patch. Now, the time it takes to ACKNOWLEDGE a bug is a different story....
I agree with you 100%. I just put that in there as a small concession to appease/address those who do not our view.
It's tighter than you think. That's no different than your friend allowing you to borrow his CD to make a copy, which is legal under Canadian law. Also, I believe that with most P2P software, at no time is a full copy ever present on the uploader. Sure, bits and pieces of a time are, but once those pieces are sent across the wire, the uploader dumps those copies and gets the next. Maybe P2P apps buffer a whole file in memory, but I doubt it, especially with 650 MB ISOs being transferred. Since there is no full copy, the law isn't violated.
This is why downloading is legal (you're 'borrowing' a copy, and copying it), but uploading is illegal (you're copying what you presumably own, and distributing it.)
While I'm sure there are arguments that simply posting a file via p2p is not distributing, it is merely...shall we say...making available...I would argue that the uploader is NOT copying. The downloader is actually making the permanent copy (yes, I suppose that the uploader must send a copy of the bits out over the wire, yadda yadda, but the actual reciever puts the whole thing back together again into 1 coherent file). Perhaps that's a tight legal line, but the reciever really is where the copy is completed.
While you could always roll your own solution, what you want is essentially all put together here: Mikrotik OS.
You can download the free version, or buy the whole thing installed on an IDE flash disk. You can also buy the flash disk/OS preinstalled on a SBC. Not quite free, but not badly priced either.
Yes, that's been there for some time now, though I wouldn't exactly call a .dll nonremovable. I was thinking more integrated, like tied to this crap they call palladium or ngscb or whatever the hell it is now to avoid the DOJ on a situation like the IE/Win98 debacle. Not that I think it's a good idea, just something they would try.
It has probably already happened (well, maybe in planning or alpha-stage somewhere anyway). We all know they switched to XML based file formats, under guise of "standards-compliance". Bullshit, I say. I think they are planning exactly what you say. Just think, the next version of windows could come with an fully integrated, nonremovable, XML parser/writer and bingo, instant integration. (in the take-it-in-the-ass kind of MS integration that everyone will have to pay for)
I don't give our developers root access on test machines either. I used to, until most of the test boxes got rooted in a hurry. Fortunately, our IDS picked everything up before things spread any further, but the fact still remains, many developers cannot properly secure/admin a machine. I'm not saying that all developers are this way, but I believe that very many are.
It's horrible that sysadmins have to resort to this, because as a poster above noted, it IS nearly impossible to know all the needs of the developer. However, to my company, uptime is all that counts.
I subscribe to MS technet, which contains a shitload of content, indexed on a CD. The interface used to navigate the index is nothing more than a front for IE (all of the index content is pretty standard HTML stuff). One thing I just noticed the other day is that if I open more than one item, it opens them a tabbed interface. Perhaps this is a special function of the interface, but like I said, it really isn't anything more than a framework for IE, so if they can do it there, why not in mainstream IE? Hell, for all I know, us technet subscribers are beta testing the tabs!
open the pdf file with an editor and look toward the bottom...created with Adobe Acrobat on Windows!
Less software means less configurability
Yeah, because pulling the block, boring it 30 over, putting in new headers, manifold, crank, cam, heads, pistons, rings, 4 bbl carbs (perhaps a predator tri-pak, and electronic ignition are oh so non-configurable!
You haven't seen configurable unless you've seen a fully tricked out 30's street rod cruising town. Now that's a car.
Halle-fucking-lujah! Why do they need laptops? Work on the basics first people! You know, the 3Rs? Teach them how to think, not use a specific technology that will be outdated before they make into HS! Concepts need to be taught at this level, not superconcrete examples.
We had a similar problem. For some reason, some machines stopped being able to open a straight linked jpeg file. It said no registered viewer. All the registered filetypes were correct, mimetypes were correct, everything. Inline jpegs worked fine, but do a straight link to one, and IE couldn't open it. Rather than screw around with it, we just set windows to open jpegs in the built in image viewer, and that worked just fine.
That's just too funny. You have to wonder how these people can serve on the board of an organization like ATA, and then turn around and not accept caller id blocked calls. How do these people sleep at night?
Chairmain
Thomas Rocca
1014 Ector Dr Nw
Kennesaw, GA 30152
(770) 429 - 1956
Vice-Chairman
Lisa Defalco (Business Number)
TPG Telemanagement Inc
301 Oxford Valley Road, Morrisville, PA 19067
(215) 369-0979
I'll leave the lookups of the rest as an exercise for the reader:
It was either a dupe here or I saw this on fark. Yup, fark. http://www.fark.com/week.html, search for bowling balls.
prove it. That's a student's word (a student possibly violating every copyright / DMCA law at that) against university staff's word. I work at a college. Even if the student is 100% telling the truth, it will likely be regarded as a lie (at least at any college I've been to).
Well, I know what I do to counter exactly this...I lock the MAC address table on the switches after the first week of school. New MAC address detected on the switch port automatically shuts off the port.
A-fucking-men to that. As the net and sysadmin for a small community college, I can feel the same way.
Our college just built dorms, so of course I have just finished building the dorm networks, and scary thoughts of lawyers and federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison were evoked when someone suggested that we add all student PCs to a Windows domain so that we could manage them. No thanks. I don't want to even know what they have on their machines, much less have admin control over them. I'll just monitor and shape/block network access as necessary, thank you very much.
...my name is ICCANa SUEya, you killa my DNS, prepare to die penniless!
as a hopeless mathmatican
Good thing you're not an English professor.
actually, Office 2003 is out. Better tack on a few more.
That's exactly the question I was thinking of when I read how much they paid. Now, we know hotmail used to run on unix/linux, but surely there couldn't have been 8 million worth of licenses there? Also, I don't believe the linux test lab MS has set up could cost that much in licenses either. The only thing I could come up with is Services for Unix, which is based on Interix, IIRC. Maybe SCO is trying to lay claim to that as well.
unless there is a manual method to wipe the shit clean when you need to. That's all I need, some corrupted piece of shit software in RAM preventing my machine from booting.
OK, so I'm drunk and in bad form for replying to my own post, but I justed wanted to point out to the grammar nazis that I do know the difference between your and you're and perhaps I should have hit the preview button in my previous post, though I will not do so here.