Yahoo is still the best directory listing (dmoz.org is close to it). Yahoo's search has started to improve again. It has a chance to get back on top now that Google is starting to do evil. Plus Yahoo Games is the largest collection of free Internet games out there. MS will kill all of this by infusing them with some awful corporate culture and force them to use MS products. Oh Yahoo please say no to MS!
When I lived in DC, I had Verizon DSL. Connected via PPPoE and only had a total of two IP addresses in 3 years. Comcast where I live now, uses DHCP and again I've had the same IP address for 2 years and only 3 IP address in 5 years. Dialup is the only time I've ever gotten a different IP every time I connected.
Also where I work, has 4000 people + 1000 public internet servers all behind just a few IP addresses. The parent and the article are just totally wrong.
Guess the last thing I'd say is this: If you're so good, go get certified... costs you nothing to do so, really.
Actually it does. Not only do you have to waste the time taking the classes and the tests, but have you seen the cost of most of these tests?!? It is outrageous. The people who need these the most (fresh out of college first time jobseekers) aren't going to be able to afford them. The people who already have a job don't need to waste their money on this crap either since their experience will show all they need and they should be too busy working to take the classes.
In short, there is a significant cost to getting certified either in time or money. Is it worth it in the end? That's for you to decide, but put me strongly in the "No it's not" camp.
I second the message labs solution, if you can affort it. We've got over 4000 employees all with email and maybe once a week does a spam make it to one person. The only false positive reported in the last two years was, someone wanted to subscribe to bugtraq and the confirmation message kept gettting blocked. The only draw back is cost. We're paying an arm and a leg, but we are getting what we pay for.
Instead, say something like "On Windows, it's really easy to do foo with bar, but it's completely impossible under Linux! This is awful!". You will immediately be deluged with indignant responses telling you exactly how to do whatever it was you were trying to accomplish rather than an RTFM brush-off.
This is truly insightful.
The "It works really well under Windows, but sucks under Linux" way of asking for help, is how I first started getting useful help from these RTFM types.
My first printer problem I started off with the question "I have a USB pinter (Cannon S520) all it prints is black blocks. I'm using CUPS and installed a new driver, but now it stoped printing completely. It can't even find the printer. What should I do?"
I would have thought that was enough to at least start a good conversation. But noooo RTFM was the only answer.
I came back a few days later and asked:
"My USB printer works really well under Windows, but under Linux/CUPS it just prints black blocks. I tried the new driver from the vendor and one from 3L373HaXor, but now Linux doesn't even know I have a printer connected to the box. I really want to swtich it all over to Linux. Can someone help?"
Wow I got the right answer in just a few minutes (kernel patch for to fix usb support and a third driver that actually worked).
I use a similar variant now..."I know how to do xyz in PHP, but how do I go about it in Perl? I tried a,b, and c but nothing seems to work as well. I really want to switch it all over to Perl."
I looked on Business Week's site to see how to submit a letter to the editor, but I couldn't find it. Does anyone know how to do it? I really think we all need to write them and tell them that their article was completely worthless and confusing and then direct them to benedelman.org (http://www.benedelman.org/news/040406-1.html).
Unless the blind person lives alone and the site needs a CAPTCHA for every transaction. For instance, as of the beginning of 2006, Blogger required this for every post. Some sort of landmark case of the form American Foundation for the Blind v. (some major site) might have repercussions in the field of spam prevention.
Let's hope this will strike down these stupid things. 9 times out of 10 I have to try the captcha more than once. Most sites don't tell you if it is case sensitive. Then there are the ones like/. where there are so many lines and extra dots it is impossible to tell some characters apart. The thing I have at the bottom of the page right now is illegable. Is that first letter an M,m,r,n,N,o,p, or is just a collection of lines that happens to look like a letter and the real first letter is that thing that looks like it could be an i or j.
Who in their right mind is going to download and run a script off of an unknown website? I'm sure you're trying to help, but no one should do this. Otherwise they'll need more than just McAfee to fix their computer.
But I actually want to say something useful. This is a good step, but until we can convicnce businesses that.doc is not something everyone uses, there is no hope for the ODF.
And with all this typing I'm probably not the first post anymore:(
Ghostscript is great except it creates PDFs which are 2-3 times the size of what Adobe creates (5-10 times the size if you've got a lot graphics). This isn't good if you're planning on distributing documents online. For a non-windows solution, we had to pay big bucks for software from pdflib.com. They are the worst people in the world to deal with, but there isn't anything you can do b/c they're the only game in town.
We're talking about 100,000 km long cable, that's enough to wrap around the earth about 10 times! How many people will be killed? What kind of environmental damage will be done?
Like all my computers I kept it in use long after it should have been retired. I even found some company that sold old TI99/4-A stuff in the early 90's that helped me keep it has my primary computer until I got to college.
In the late 80's I go a 2nd computer. An old Corona Portable (it is bigger than my desktop is now). This was my first introduction to DOS and a 1200 baud modem!
The 90's began and I went to college. I got a sickly old IBM PS2 for that. About the only use I ever had for it was to play a dos bridge program. I was so happy the college's computer lab let me in. I don't even know what was in the lab but they were "real" computers.
College ended and I ended up buying an eMachine 400 off of the home shopping network. It was great. For $1000 I got not only the computer and monitor, but also the scanner and printer (both of which I still use today) and tons of software. The eMachine lasted without any problems until 2005 when both the powersupply and harddrive died.
About 2000, I got a new portable computer. One that was actually smaller than my desktop. This was some old CompUSA refubrished over at ubid.com. That lasted about a year, as I gave it rather heavy use.
I replaced the portable in 2002 with an old Dell Latitude also off of ubid.com. That saw heavy use as well. It was also the first computer I put Linux on. It finally died after an unfortunate incident with a can of Dr. Pepper.
I again replaced the portable in 2004, this time with a new Toshiba Satellite. Every stat on this thing was at least 10x better than my desktop. Heck every stat was at least 5-10x better than the previous portable. This quickly became my main computer. My only regret so far is that I have not installed Linux on it yet.
Finally last year, I had to buy a new desktop. After researching, I found a good deal on a spiffy new Compaq Presario from Sam's Club. For about $1000, I got about 3x more computer than my laptop. Only mistake I made was not getting the DVD burner (what was I smoking that day?!?). I quickly ripped out WinXP and installed Linux again. The great news was that my old printer and scanner worked with this new computer.
Anyway I found my both of my first two computers in the garage the other day. I've got to come up with some use for them. Any suggestions?
After RTFA, it sounds like this whole token thing is a lot like the Habus Warrent Mark. I have yet to recieve a legit email with the Habus Warrent Mark. What is to stop spammers from forging a header under the GoodMail system?
This is Federal court where TV cameras are not allowed. So CourtTV will not be there. Also since the Feds are involved, protesters will be kept far way in a free speech zone. There will be little in the way of a so-called "media circus" or any dramtic action what so ever.
You've been able to get a Dell with RedHat and without Windows since at least 1999. That was when I ordered my first Linux server. After that experience I'll never order anything from Dell again. It was only luck that I figured out all the problems were Dell's and not Linux. Otherwise I'd be a huge advocate for M$.
Linux is now mainstream, it's being spread by slick corporate marketing, and with most distros, installation is a snap.
Seriously what are you smoking? Linux is not mainstream. In a company with over 4000 employees, I'm the only one using Linux. Outside of server admins most people don't even know what it is. The only slick corp marketing is found in geek mags.
As for the "do LUGs matter" question. I went to one once. It was the biggest waste of time. Some idiot talked about doing stupid things all the while running Gnome as root. Talk about stupid, he couldn't even read the warning saying don't run Gnome as root. The LUG aparently died a year later. To me they don't matter.
There is no fundamental difference between a "few" million and "10s of" million users...As their [Google's] user numbers grow and technology advances, they will at some point undoubtedly face problems similar to what MS and Yahoo face now.
Way to contradick;-) yourself. First you say it doesn't matter how many users Google has, then you say once Google has as many users as MS and Yahoo they'll have the same problems.
So which is it?
Google is quite smart to maintain itself as invite only. This keeps the userbase growing, but slow enough that it can manage.
This is especially true given the often-Libertarian nature of many of the comments on Slashdot. Many a time have I seen comments along the lines of "if people don't like violent video games, they should just not play them" etc. So why not apply the same logic to dupes? You see it, recognise it for what it is, and move on. There are plenty of other stories to check out.
Because passing a dupe off as "news" is fraud. A prohibition of the initiation of force and fraud are the basic tenants of Libertarian philosophy.
Christ, people. At worst, it'll suck. Big deal, so does most of everything on TV. It certainly couldn't be worse than yet more Eastenders, Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo, or any of the other crap that's been spewed by the BBC over the years.
First, Are You Being Served? was one of the best TV shows ever made. It's a sitcom but yet it does the full range from funny and stilly to serious and a bit depressing. For Americans it provide a very interesting look into the still highly structured British society of the 60's and 70's.
Now the awful Are You Being Served Again just plained sucked. It had all the right elements, but the writters took the show in the wrong direction into plain looney sistuations.
Two years ago you would have been right. But with the downhill bent that Slashdot has been on lately, this story is not only newsworthy, but will be duped sometime later today.
Why is this modded funny? It is true and very insightful.
as soon as the security hole is found. Otherwise people will continue to use something that is dangerous to them and possibly others.
Only by promptly informing the public can we be assured that no one will use software with a security hole in it. It also gets more people working on the task of patching the problem.
Hiding this information just hurts all of the users.
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Yahoo is still the best directory listing (dmoz.org is close to it). Yahoo's search has started to improve again. It has a chance to get back on top now that Google is starting to do evil. Plus Yahoo Games is the largest collection of free Internet games out there. MS will kill all of this by infusing them with some awful corporate culture and force them to use MS products. Oh Yahoo please say no to MS!
When I lived in DC, I had Verizon DSL. Connected via PPPoE and only had a total of two IP addresses in 3 years. Comcast where I live now, uses DHCP and again I've had the same IP address for 2 years and only 3 IP address in 5 years. Dialup is the only time I've ever gotten a different IP every time I connected.
Also where I work, has 4000 people + 1000 public internet servers all behind just a few IP addresses. The parent and the article are just totally wrong.
Actually it does. Not only do you have to waste the time taking the classes and the tests, but have you seen the cost of most of these tests?!? It is outrageous. The people who need these the most (fresh out of college first time jobseekers) aren't going to be able to afford them. The people who already have a job don't need to waste their money on this crap either since their experience will show all they need and they should be too busy working to take the classes.
In short, there is a significant cost to getting certified either in time or money. Is it worth it in the end? That's for you to decide, but put me strongly in the "No it's not" camp.
I second the message labs solution, if you can affort it. We've got over 4000 employees all with email and maybe once a week does a spam make it to one person. The only false positive reported in the last two years was, someone wanted to subscribe to bugtraq and the confirmation message kept gettting blocked. The only draw back is cost. We're paying an arm and a leg, but we are getting what we pay for.
This is truly insightful.
The "It works really well under Windows, but sucks under Linux" way of asking for help, is how I first started getting useful help from these RTFM types.
My first printer problem I started off with the question "I have a USB pinter (Cannon S520) all it prints is black blocks. I'm using CUPS and installed a new driver, but now it stoped printing completely. It can't even find the printer. What should I do?"
I would have thought that was enough to at least start a good conversation. But noooo RTFM was the only answer.
I came back a few days later and asked:
"My USB printer works really well under Windows, but under Linux/CUPS it just prints black blocks. I tried the new driver from the vendor and one from 3L373HaXor, but now Linux doesn't even know I have a printer connected to the box. I really want to swtich it all over to Linux. Can someone help?"
Wow I got the right answer in just a few minutes (kernel patch for to fix usb support and a third driver that actually worked).
I use a similar variant now..."I know how to do xyz in PHP, but how do I go about it in Perl? I tried a,b, and c but nothing seems to work as well. I really want to switch it all over to Perl."
Amazing the results.
I looked on Business Week's site to see how to submit a letter to the editor, but I couldn't find it. Does anyone know how to do it? I really think we all need to write them and tell them that their article was completely worthless and confusing and then direct them to benedelman.org (http://www.benedelman.org/news/040406-1.html).
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Let's hope this will strike down these stupid things. 9 times out of 10 I have to try the captcha more than once. Most sites don't tell you if it is case sensitive. Then there are the ones like /. where there are so many lines and extra dots it is impossible to tell some characters apart. The thing I have at the bottom of the page right now is illegable. Is that first letter an M,m,r,n,N,o,p, or is just a collection of lines that happens to look like a letter and the real first letter is that thing that looks like it could be an i or j.
I pay something like $100/mo for Cable TV and Comcast lets the put in ads all over the place. Only HBO is unaffected by ads.
Who in their right mind is going to download and run a script off of an unknown website? I'm sure you're trying to help, but no one should do this. Otherwise they'll need more than just McAfee to fix their computer.
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.doc is not something everyone uses, there is no hope for the ODF.
:(
But I actually want to say something useful. This is a good step, but until we can convicnce businesses that
And with all this typing I'm probably not the first post anymore
Ghostscript is great except it creates PDFs which are 2-3 times the size of what Adobe creates (5-10 times the size if you've got a lot graphics). This isn't good if you're planning on distributing documents online. For a non-windows solution, we had to pay big bucks for software from pdflib.com. They are the worst people in the world to deal with, but there isn't anything you can do b/c they're the only game in town.
We're talking about 100,000 km long cable, that's enough to wrap around the earth about 10 times! How many people will be killed? What kind of environmental damage will be done?
Yep the TI99/4-A was my first.
Like all my computers I kept it in use long after it should have been retired. I even found some company that sold old TI99/4-A stuff in the early 90's that helped me keep it has my primary computer until I got to college.
In the late 80's I go a 2nd computer. An old Corona Portable (it is bigger than my desktop is now). This was my first introduction to DOS and a 1200 baud modem!
The 90's began and I went to college. I got a sickly old IBM PS2 for that. About the only use I ever had for it was to play a dos bridge program. I was so happy the college's computer lab let me in. I don't even know what was in the lab but they were "real" computers.
College ended and I ended up buying an eMachine 400 off of the home shopping network. It was great. For $1000 I got not only the computer and monitor, but also the scanner and printer (both of which I still use today) and tons of software. The eMachine lasted without any problems until 2005 when both the powersupply and harddrive died.
About 2000, I got a new portable computer. One that was actually smaller than my desktop. This was some old CompUSA refubrished over at ubid.com. That lasted about a year, as I gave it rather heavy use.
I replaced the portable in 2002 with an old Dell Latitude also off of ubid.com. That saw heavy use as well. It was also the first computer I put Linux on. It finally died after an unfortunate incident with a can of Dr. Pepper.
I again replaced the portable in 2004, this time with a new Toshiba Satellite. Every stat on this thing was at least 10x better than my desktop. Heck every stat was at least 5-10x better than the previous portable. This quickly became my main computer. My only regret so far is that I have not installed Linux on it yet.
Finally last year, I had to buy a new desktop. After researching, I found a good deal on a spiffy new Compaq Presario from Sam's Club. For about $1000, I got about 3x more computer than my laptop. Only mistake I made was not getting the DVD burner (what was I smoking that day?!?). I quickly ripped out WinXP and installed Linux again. The great news was that my old printer and scanner worked with this new computer.
Anyway I found my both of my first two computers in the garage the other day. I've got to come up with some use for them. Any suggestions?
I just modded that other comment +1 Insightful. Somehow I missed it the first time I read that discussion.
After RTFA, it sounds like this whole token thing is a lot like the Habus Warrent Mark. I have yet to recieve a legit email with the Habus Warrent Mark. What is to stop spammers from forging a header under the GoodMail system?
This is Federal court where TV cameras are not allowed. So CourtTV will not be there. Also since the Feds are involved, protesters will be kept far way in a free speech zone. There will be little in the way of a so-called "media circus" or any dramtic action what so ever.
You've been able to get a Dell with RedHat and without Windows since at least 1999. That was when I ordered my first Linux server. After that experience I'll never order anything from Dell again. It was only luck that I figured out all the problems were Dell's and not Linux. Otherwise I'd be a huge advocate for M$.
As for the "do LUGs matter" question. I went to one once. It was the biggest waste of time. Some idiot talked about doing stupid things all the while running Gnome as root. Talk about stupid, he couldn't even read the warning saying don't run Gnome as root. The LUG aparently died a year later. To me they don't matter.
Way to contradick ;-) yourself. First you say it doesn't matter how many users Google has, then you say once Google has as many users as MS and Yahoo they'll have the same problems.
So which is it?
Google is quite smart to maintain itself as invite only. This keeps the userbase growing, but slow enough that it can manage.
First, Are You Being Served? was one of the best TV shows ever made. It's a sitcom but yet it does the full range from funny and stilly to serious and a bit depressing. For Americans it provide a very interesting look into the still highly structured British society of the 60's and 70's.
Now the awful Are You Being Served Again just plained sucked. It had all the right elements, but the writters took the show in the wrong direction into plain looney sistuations.
Second, you are right about the remake of the Prisoner. It will suck, no big deal. About 90-99% of TV suck anyway. Worst that will happen is that we all go find the first series on DVD and show it to all of our friends. Amazon.com has the entire series it for just $70! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005NKCQ/104-40 95099-4359934?v=glance&n=130&n=507846&s=dvd&v=glan ce
as soon as the security hole is found. Otherwise people will continue to use something that is dangerous to them and possibly others.
Only by promptly informing the public can we be assured that no one will use software with a security hole in it. It also gets more people working on the task of patching the problem.
Hiding this information just hurts all of the users.