"We think it's not in the best interest of the wider software market to single out one model for endorsement like this" the spokesperson for Microsoft said.
Think about it, think hard. A single model ? That is like the mafia boss telling the judge "it is unfair to single out the model of law-abiding citizenry as only allowable one". Nobody hinders Microsoft to compete in the market of open standards; just like Nokia and Ericsson compete in the world of the open standards of telecommunication. Sure, they'd prefer if each had a monopoly, and nobody else could even manufacture handsets.
The Dutch policy directs government organizations at the national level to be ready to use the Open Document Format to save documents by April No reason for Microsoft to whine. ODF is some ISO standard, and they are more than welcome to place their ISO/IEC 26300-compliant product in the market. Nobody hinders Microsoft to make the big buck at supporting their software.
2. Router ACLs are in place to block unnecessary ports
Right-o ! Shows what a brainwashed, single-minded dim he is. Doesn't say "(Microsoft) Firewall v.0.38.2a" on the shrink-wrapped package; and voilà, isn't (a firewall). That's how they keep the masses unwashed and in admiration. (But I digress.)
Actually, the whole thing is a disgrace, but what to expect... !?
2. We have ~650GB/day of IIS logs [...] Just IIS logs are a challenge without trying to parse another ~650GB of firewall logs.
Why is an IIS log size just as large as a firewall log ? Makes me wonder, if he thinks they were the same ?? 650GB of what ? ASCII text or gzip ?
3. 5+ years ago, there wasn't a firewall solution that would scale to our needs and this forced us to focus on network, host, and application security.
I'd never would want their stuff for free even. Because the use of the word 'forced' is absolutely wrong. Program security is the alpha and omega of security; and anyone who wants to have his software taken seriously would look into exactly these. Not into firewalls.
5. Application security is critical since a firewall is likely going to allow traffic on the correct port and protocol through to the web servers so IIS/ASP.NET/Applications must deal with these requests gracefully.
This is so right, see above. But the mentality implies he is unaware of the fact that predictable and graceful behaviour is what we want in the applications in the first place.
6. We do run AV on our servers when we can. At times product adoption means we don't install it, but we do normally run AV.
Makes one wonder what this is supposed to tell us. At times they don't get an AV running on their own boxen ? Can someone point out to me, which logic underpins non-usage of AV for 'product adoption' ? Like, on those boxen containing Vista ?
Except that you believe in Easter Bunny. OOXML has a spec, like, behave something that we don't have the specs for and won't get the details. Recursion to the unknown. Read up a bit on it and you'll find out. [Yes, you as well, you the moderator who thinks this as 'insightful'] 'Provably' means that you have the specs, and 'provably' means that MS implements the specs. Neither will be the case, since you don't have them, and they will not be implemented (at least not all 6000+b pages), you're screwed. Egg in your face, for believing those grandma's stories. Plus, they recently shifted the maintenance back from ISO to ECMA. That is, to a puppet of theirs. "ECMA, am I doing right ?" "Microsoft, you are doing wonderfully !"
Which isn't all too high, look at their recent filings and layoffs. Sure he wants to get a generous offer from them (MS), and he'll bent any direction of the windrose for it. Let him move along. Even encourage him to move along. Gnumeric was the last great thing he did. Evolution was already corrupted, because the contributors to the Exchange plugin were asked to fork out for using it. The earlier he arrives in Redmond, the better for the community.
Okay, enlighten me in case you know more about this piece of hardware. From what I could make out, it was a rather silly game, no graphics, tiny screen, childish figures. If the instructions could make an(y) essential difference between what we saw and what the game is all about, I will side your position that the first reviewer was not all too intellectual. Go ahead, share your insight !
I bet if the sarcastic doofus reviewing it had read the instructions before starting his review, he might have gotten more out of it.
Good on yer ! And how about the doofus reviewing the review of the doofus overrunning his attention span and overlooking the fact that actually there had not been any instructions in the first place ?
Uuh, in the first place, your new Dell BSOD-ing after 30 minutes can point to a hardware (RAM) problem. Maybe you should have tested it further and brought it up with DELL. AMD is shooting themselves in the foot by alienating the crowd - often enough AMD fans are ATI fans are *nix fans - with crap X drivers. You can't blame neither Dell nor Suse here. You have to blame yourself though for buying a PC of any brand without considering that you might ever want some quality X action. Otherwise, you'd have selected Nvidia or (even) Intel. Neither corrupt X all over the place. But also, the free ati driver doesn't. It does not support compiz, true. Here I am running compiz pretty well on an integrated GF6100. You want an easy, out-of-the-box compiz ? Nvidia is as of now your friend.
Let's summarize it again, over and over: If you want to run *nix, get informed (there is something call 'Internet' as might have noticed) which items do well with it. And which brands provide drivers respectively info about their chipsets.
I really don't get it. Having been a regular AMD user since 1989, I see AMD's market share gained during the last years slipping, its lead position overtaken, its finances floundering. Of course, Spider has the potential to win the hard-core gamers and overclockers (and maybe the energy-conscious underclockers). But - I didn't do the research here, wild guessing - per one hard-core gamer 10 or 100 CPUs are sold to the general public (desktop). And 10 or 100 CPUs are sold to be used in servers. In order to survive, AMD needs numbers, not a dedicated hard-core user group.
Having preferred ATI to NVIDIA for years as well, now I use (and recommend) NVIDIA. Because NVIDIA has finally reached a reasonable coverage of its video drivers for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Plus, their drivers install and configure okay.
I am afraid, AMD has got the priorities not correct, except of in the field of low power consumption (and even there the 35 W EE is moving to a 45 W basis).
While you might be right, theoretically, in real life it was not the to-be-bashed Commander who wrote this. It was written like this exactly in the article. You might be embarrassed, but you are in the right place: Slashdotters don't RTFA. Welcome to the club, Radres.
they don't want to risk competition even if it means the kids continue to fail.
Ahh, I get what you say, maybe. Competition will avoid kids failing. Isn't it ? Question is, what you define as 'fail': not getting a pass grade or failing in life. In case of the former, we are back on topic: selling Knock-Off 'A's. In case of the latter, we are back on topic: not buying Knock-Off Wii-s.
"Microsoft has a strong relationship with the government in Nigeria and will continue to partner with government and industry to help meet their needs,"
How about "Microsoft has a strong relationship with the government and people in Nigeria and will continue to help meet their needs" ?
The best part: the icon on my firefox tab shows a tiny little bomb. Similar to those in the infamous mine-sweeper. Don't believe me ? go and try yourself !
A short one: Yes and No. It still stands, the numbers are still correct. That's the theoretical limit if you use the normal phone exchange(s), and the existing, limited, phone bandwidth (300-3400 Hz)
ADSL, though, uses the spectrum above, and needs extra ports on the last phone exchange to your house, since - contrary to standard modem - these signals don't pass through the plain old telephone system. They are kind of injected at the very end.
Maybe not 'a scam artist', but a fscking good salesman of himself. I went to his home page at http://jpap.andriopo.ulos.org/ and saw very much of a sales-show of oneself, much more than a home page of a scientist. While I was pondering about the feasibility of his undertaking, his home page made me wonder. I downloaded and read the article, and found some snake-oil. The article here sounds like an 'add-on', whereas the whole thing is a 'replace by'. Call it PAP-ADSL, or whatever you like. Meaning, you need new technology on both ends.
Plus, but here I am not able to contribute soundly due to my lack of knowledge in the actual last line parameters, the idea is based on user-specific allocations on the neighbouring lines, he uses 2x4 users. I have no clue if this is realistic, maybe it is very much, maybe it is not. As I said, w.r.t. the latter I am clueless. I permit myself, though, to question the outset when the technology depends on the other users (cf cable modem) and their usage, instead of an approach independent of neighbouring users.
Finally, also this is limited to my local experience, here the limit is usually not the last mile, but international line overload. Anything not coming from Akamai or Singapore comes in slower than our ADSL link permits. And with a sustainable data rate available only from these sources, at around the maximal speed of our ADSL, we don't suffer from a problem that Dr. John's concept could remedy.
If you ever go to the link pointed out (I know, we are in/., and RTFS is for weaklings only)... Instead, he delivered an excellent speech about DRM you'll find a beautiful Minutes of the Debate in WORD.
I left the European Patent Office 10 years ago (blablabla)...... and in those days we had around 2 days per application.
It would be good to compare with the current required production numbers of the Japanese, Korean etc. offices before drawing conclusions. Anyone in here ? EPO anyone ? (I recently read the EPO was similarly down to around 1 day ?)
In those days.. blablabla.. it was not dismissal that threatened us. It was the other end: promotion depended on high production. Quality was almost no concern. Though, honestly, our quality then (at least) was one class above the USPTO. No, not because I happened to be one of the 2000 examiners, rather to the contrary.
(It almost doesn't matter any more.) No, there is no DOS in XP. Over. What you get is a 'Command Prompt' (this is why it is named likewise, in distinction to 98's MSDOS Prompt) that behaves slightly like a DOS command prompt. Meaning, you are using the XP subsystems for I/O of XP's kernel with an ugly interface. Try to boot to a DOS floppy, and tell me that you can copy more than 10 files > 2GB, and I'll call you a liar.
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Clever. AC offers a minicity troll and comments his own troll confirming it wasn't.
But it is. Stay off.
Will they provide it ?
Are they GPL-compliant ?
... in furniture. In chairs to be precise.
Quite a few will be tossed about until Norway retracts this mandate, or adds "or OOXML"
He, I found this 'funny'. But my mod points are spent.
No, not as AC, because I'm not a coward, I mean it !
"We think it's not in the best interest of the wider software market to single out one model for endorsement like this" the spokesperson for Microsoft said.
Think about it, think hard. A single model ? That is like the mafia boss telling the judge "it is unfair to single out the model of law-abiding citizenry as only allowable one".
Nobody hinders Microsoft to compete in the market of open standards; just like Nokia and Ericsson compete in the world of the open standards of telecommunication. Sure, they'd prefer if each had a monopoly, and nobody else could even manufacture handsets.
The Dutch policy directs government organizations at the national level to be ready to use the Open Document Format to save documents by April
No reason for Microsoft to whine. ODF is some ISO standard, and they are more than welcome to place their ISO/IEC 26300-compliant product in the market. Nobody hinders Microsoft to make the big buck at supporting their software.
SUREURCORRECT!
... !?
2. Router ACLs are in place to block unnecessary ports
Right-o ! Shows what a brainwashed, single-minded dim he is. Doesn't say "(Microsoft) Firewall v.0.38.2a" on the shrink-wrapped package; and voilà, isn't (a firewall). That's how they keep the masses unwashed and in admiration. (But I digress.)
Actually, the whole thing is a disgrace, but what to expect
2. We have ~650GB/day of IIS logs [...] Just IIS logs are a challenge without trying to parse another ~650GB of firewall logs.
Why is an IIS log size just as large as a firewall log ? Makes me wonder, if he thinks they were the same ??
650GB of what ? ASCII text or gzip ?
3. 5+ years ago, there wasn't a firewall solution that would scale to our needs and this forced us to focus on network, host, and application security.
I'd never would want their stuff for free even. Because the use of the word 'forced' is absolutely wrong. Program security is the alpha and omega of security; and anyone who wants to have his software taken seriously would look into exactly these. Not into firewalls.
5. Application security is critical since a firewall is likely going to allow traffic on the correct port and protocol through to the web servers so IIS/ASP.NET/Applications must deal with these requests gracefully.
This is so right, see above. But the mentality implies he is unaware of the fact that predictable and graceful behaviour is what we want in the applications in the first place.
6. We do run AV on our servers when we can. At times product adoption means we don't install it, but we do normally run AV.
Makes one wonder what this is supposed to tell us. At times they don't get an AV running on their own boxen ? Can someone point out to me, which logic underpins non-usage of AV for 'product adoption' ? Like, on those boxen containing Vista ?
Except that you believe in Easter Bunny.
OOXML has a spec, like, behave something that we don't have the specs for and won't get the details. Recursion to the unknown. Read up a bit on it and you'll find out. [Yes, you as well, you the moderator who thinks this as 'insightful']
'Provably' means that you have the specs, and 'provably' means that MS implements the specs. Neither will be the case, since you don't have them, and they will not be implemented (at least not all 6000+b pages), you're screwed. Egg in your face, for believing those grandma's stories.
Plus, they recently shifted the maintenance back from ISO to ECMA. That is, to a puppet of theirs. "ECMA, am I doing right ?" "Microsoft, you are doing wonderfully !"
No, he is on Novell's payroll.
Novell is on MS's payroll.
Which isn't all too high, look at their recent filings and layoffs.
Sure he wants to get a generous offer from them (MS), and he'll bent any direction of the windrose for it.
Let him move along. Even encourage him to move along. Gnumeric was the last great thing he did. Evolution was already corrupted, because the contributors to the Exchange plugin were asked to fork out for using it.
The earlier he arrives in Redmond, the better for the community.
Okay, enlighten me in case you know more about this piece of hardware. From what I could make out, it was a rather silly game, no graphics, tiny screen, childish figures.
If the instructions could make an(y) essential difference between what we saw and what the game is all about, I will side your position that the first reviewer was not all too intellectual.
Go ahead, share your insight !
I bet if the sarcastic doofus reviewing it had read the instructions before starting his review, he might have gotten more out of it.
Good on yer !
And how about the doofus reviewing the review of the doofus overrunning his attention span and overlooking the fact that actually there had not been any instructions in the first place ?
And besides, I've kinda fallen in love with Fluxbox.
Oh boy, I'm waiting for the day you discover emacs !
Uuh, in the first place, your new Dell BSOD-ing after 30 minutes can point to a hardware (RAM) problem. Maybe you should have tested it further and brought it up with DELL.
AMD is shooting themselves in the foot by alienating the crowd - often enough AMD fans are ATI fans are *nix fans - with crap X drivers. You can't blame neither Dell nor Suse here.
You have to blame yourself though for buying a PC of any brand without considering that you might ever want some quality X action. Otherwise, you'd have selected Nvidia or (even) Intel. Neither corrupt X all over the place. But also, the free ati driver doesn't. It does not support compiz, true.
Here I am running compiz pretty well on an integrated GF6100. You want an easy, out-of-the-box compiz ? Nvidia is as of now your friend.
Let's summarize it again, over and over: If you want to run *nix, get informed (there is something call 'Internet' as might have noticed) which items do well with it. And which brands provide drivers respectively info about their chipsets.
I'm an IT expert,
Aren't we all ?
this is my impression of Vista.
Haven't we all one ?
I see a reason for businesses to switch to Vista, especially if you play games at work
Oh well, you are an IT expert, by all means.
I really don't get it. Having been a regular AMD user since 1989, I see AMD's market share gained during the last years slipping, its lead position overtaken, its finances floundering.
Of course, Spider has the potential to win the hard-core gamers and overclockers (and maybe the energy-conscious underclockers). But - I didn't do the research here, wild guessing - per one hard-core gamer 10 or 100 CPUs are sold to the general public (desktop). And 10 or 100 CPUs are sold to be used in servers.
In order to survive, AMD needs numbers, not a dedicated hard-core user group.
Having preferred ATI to NVIDIA for years as well, now I use (and recommend) NVIDIA. Because NVIDIA has finally reached a reasonable coverage of its video drivers for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Plus, their drivers install and configure okay.
I am afraid, AMD has got the priorities not correct, except of in the field of low power consumption (and even there the 35 W EE is moving to a 45 W basis).
While you might be right, theoretically, in real life it was not the to-be-bashed Commander who wrote this. It was written like this exactly in the article. You might be embarrassed, but you are in the right place: Slashdotters don't RTFA. Welcome to the club, Radres.
you right-click to bring up the context menu...and each context menu contains the necessary tools for the item that was clicked.
...
That's OpenOffice for you
they don't want to risk competition even if it means the kids continue to fail.
Ahh, I get what you say, maybe. Competition will avoid kids failing. Isn't it ?
Question is, what you define as 'fail': not getting a pass grade or failing in life.
In case of the former, we are back on topic: selling Knock-Off 'A's.
In case of the latter, we are back on topic: not buying Knock-Off Wii-s.
"Microsoft has a strong relationship with the government in Nigeria and will continue to partner with government and industry to help meet their needs,"
How about "Microsoft has a strong relationship with the government and people in Nigeria and will continue to help meet their needs" ?
It went off-line long ago! It was www.wondowsrefund.net
No winder it went off-line !
Oh yeah !
And if you need more, you'll find more at
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=200710261517596
The best part: the icon on my firefox tab shows a tiny little bomb. Similar to those in the infamous mine-sweeper. Don't believe me ? go and try yourself !
A short one: Yes and No. It still stands, the numbers are still correct. That's the theoretical limit if you use the normal phone exchange(s), and the existing, limited, phone bandwidth (300-3400 Hz)
ADSL, though, uses the spectrum above, and needs extra ports on the last phone exchange to your house, since - contrary to standard modem - these signals don't pass through the plain old telephone system. They are kind of injected at the very end.
Maybe not 'a scam artist', but a fscking good salesman of himself. I went to his home page at http://jpap.andriopo.ulos.org/ and saw very much of a sales-show of oneself, much more than a home page of a scientist.
While I was pondering about the feasibility of his undertaking, his home page made me wonder. I downloaded and read the article, and found some snake-oil.
The article here sounds like an 'add-on', whereas the whole thing is a 'replace by'. Call it PAP-ADSL, or whatever you like. Meaning, you need new technology on both ends.
Plus, but here I am not able to contribute soundly due to my lack of knowledge in the actual last line parameters, the idea is based on user-specific allocations on the neighbouring lines, he uses 2x4 users. I have no clue if this is realistic, maybe it is very much, maybe it is not. As I said, w.r.t. the latter I am clueless.
I permit myself, though, to question the outset when the technology depends on the other users (cf cable modem) and their usage, instead of an approach independent of neighbouring users.
Finally, also this is limited to my local experience, here the limit is usually not the last mile, but international line overload. Anything not coming from Akamai or Singapore comes in slower than our ADSL link permits. And with a sustainable data rate available only from these sources, at around the maximal speed of our ADSL, we don't suffer from a problem that Dr. John's concept could remedy.
If you ever go to the link pointed out (I know, we are in /., and RTFS is for weaklings only) ...
Instead, he delivered an excellent speech about DRM
you'll find a beautiful Minutes of the Debate in WORD.
Richard, your message was lost !
I left the European Patent Office 10 years ago (blablabla) ... ... and in those days we had around 2 days per application.
.. blablabla .. it was not dismissal that threatened us. It was the other end: promotion depended on high production. Quality was almost no concern. Though, honestly, our quality then (at least) was one class above the USPTO. No, not because I happened to be one of the 2000 examiners, rather to the contrary.
It would be good to compare with the current required production numbers of the Japanese, Korean etc. offices before drawing conclusions.
Anyone in here ? EPO anyone ? (I recently read the EPO was similarly down to around 1 day ?)
In those days
(It almost doesn't matter any more.)
No, there is no DOS in XP. Over.
What you get is a 'Command Prompt' (this is why it is named likewise, in distinction to 98's MSDOS Prompt) that behaves slightly like a DOS command prompt. Meaning, you are using the XP subsystems for I/O of XP's kernel with an ugly interface.
Try to boot to a DOS floppy, and tell me that you can copy more than 10 files > 2GB, and I'll call you a liar.