I've had good luck with AVG and Bitdefender. I really didn't like the Avast's interface; it was so annoying I uninstalled it. I haven't tried AntiVir yet.
AVG is particularly good when setting up a computer for someone who isn't too tech-savy...I haven't had issues with false positives and it doesn't harass the user as much as most others.
System: Exchange
Users: 2000+
Type of business: University
Mailbox limit: 50 MB (increased to 75 or 100 MB if they say pretty please), they stop receiving email at 50 MB, can't send at 100 MB.
Attachment limit: 7 MB
Archives are stored locally...so no limit there. No limit on the amount of time you can keep mail. There are lots of restrictions on file extensions of attachments.
Are the survey respondents taking cost of ownership into consideration? I see no mention of it in the article. Of course OSS is cheaper up front; but cost of ownership includes how much it costs to actually use the software. The real bargains are the OSS that is not only free up front, but also a better product than the alternatives (Apache comes to mind).
They might have to do what I've done with some of my blogs where this has become a problem; turn off comments. Granted, this makes it less of a blog and more of a newspaper...
Or, if they have the manpower review every comment before they go live. Commentors will live w/ a delay of their comment being posted.
That is he specifically acknowledges that computers may one day pass the Turing test.
A computer will one day be sophiscated enough to manipulate symbols sufficiently to pass the Turing test. I don't believe that means it is sentient and/or has a mind. It may be time to move beyond the Turing test as the rule for artificial intelligence.
Seems like you would have to collect everything into a big ball and then leave the ball up there. I can't imagine dragging a bunch of junk down through the atmosphere. One big ball of junk would be much easier to dodge than thousands of small (probably equally deadly) chunks.
A portion of every IT worker's salary goes towards security. Security issues are certainly a daily concern support technicians. The costs easily amount to billions.
This is isn't Apple bashing; just bashing of a stupid mistake. The RSS/XML specs aren't really that complicated. Apple is either stupid or just don't give a crap whether there stuff actually works.
There is likely a political reason behind this. CSUC is broken into at least 4 seperate entities (not to mention the individual colleges): Housing & Food services, Associated Students, Research Foundation, and the actual educational/administrative part. The housing department probably insisted on doing their own thing with their own database and their own administrators. There are very competent IT people at CSUC; Housing & Food services probably just refused to allow the competent people to administer their servers (or just use the existing ones)...electing to try to do it themselves instead because they like to seperate themselves from the rest of campus.
Part of the reason things are seperated out like that is because there is a law that California state government agencies (which CSUC technically counts as) can't do anything that competes with private businesses. To get around this CSUC has set up pseudo-private entities like the Research Foundation and Housing & Food services in same strange kind of money laundering scheme.
It will be interesting to see if there is the usual 24 hour turnaround on a fix for this from the Mozilla Foundation. Lord knows Microsoft probably won't lift a finger to fix it.
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"Gravity Tractor" would be a great band name.
I've had good luck with AVG and Bitdefender. I really didn't like the Avast's interface; it was so annoying I uninstalled it. I haven't tried AntiVir yet.
AVG is particularly good when setting up a computer for someone who isn't too tech-savy...I haven't had issues with false positives and it doesn't harass the user as much as most others.
System: Exchange Users: 2000+ Type of business: University Mailbox limit: 50 MB (increased to 75 or 100 MB if they say pretty please), they stop receiving email at 50 MB, can't send at 100 MB. Attachment limit: 7 MB Archives are stored locally...so no limit there. No limit on the amount of time you can keep mail. There are lots of restrictions on file extensions of attachments.
Did they pick up any of their space trash while they were out there?
Are the survey respondents taking cost of ownership into consideration? I see no mention of it in the article. Of course OSS is cheaper up front; but cost of ownership includes how much it costs to actually use the software. The real bargains are the OSS that is not only free up front, but also a better product than the alternatives (Apache comes to mind).
M$ should continue to focus on software. Maybe an itunes-killer; let everyone else worry about an ipod-killer. There is still money in selling music.
They might have to do what I've done with some of my blogs where this has become a problem; turn off comments. Granted, this makes it less of a blog and more of a newspaper...
Or, if they have the manpower review every comment before they go live. Commentors will live w/ a delay of their comment being posted.
I agree. I doubt this is really about Jobs joining the Disney board. The speculation about a iTunes content deal seems much more likely.
That is he specifically acknowledges that computers may one day pass the Turing test.
A computer will one day be sophiscated enough to manipulate symbols sufficiently to pass the Turing test. I don't believe that means it is sentient and/or has a mind. It may be time to move beyond the Turing test as the rule for artificial intelligence.
Computers are similar to brains. But animals seem to additionally have a mind which computers will likely never obtain.
Ummm, no suprise, 'cause it is already. The company that created recently sold for half a billion dollars.
That is about all they can do. What is the point of hacking a livejournal account? I guess you could put up some ads...
I suppose they aren't going do the nice thing of explaining these 16 supposed holes to livejournal.
Seems like you would have to collect everything into a big ball and then leave the ball up there. I can't imagine dragging a bunch of junk down through the atmosphere. One big ball of junk would be much easier to dodge than thousands of small (probably equally deadly) chunks.
A portion of every IT worker's salary goes towards security. Security issues are certainly a daily concern support technicians. The costs easily amount to billions.
This is isn't Apple bashing; just bashing of a stupid mistake. The RSS/XML specs aren't really that complicated. Apple is either stupid or just don't give a crap whether there stuff actually works.
I agree. This is very unique and interesting art. There are some very unflattering portraits on the oddities page
Would you pay $100 for a 4GB Solid State Drive that is up to 6x faster than a WD Raptor?
Yeah, I would only have my OS and applications on there with everything else on a second hard drive.
There is likely a political reason behind this. CSUC is broken into at least 4 seperate entities (not to mention the individual colleges): Housing & Food services, Associated Students, Research Foundation, and the actual educational/administrative part. The housing department probably insisted on doing their own thing with their own database and their own administrators. There are very competent IT people at CSUC; Housing & Food services probably just refused to allow the competent people to administer their servers (or just use the existing ones)...electing to try to do it themselves instead because they like to seperate themselves from the rest of campus.
Part of the reason things are seperated out like that is because there is a law that California state government agencies (which CSUC technically counts as) can't do anything that competes with private businesses. To get around this CSUC has set up pseudo-private entities like the Research Foundation and Housing & Food services in same strange kind of money laundering scheme.
The City officials ruined Halloween; the cops outnumber the partiers. Labor day is still pretty crazy though.
Keep practicing your reading, you'll get it right some day.
That is the first exciting Star Wars news I've heard in a long time! ...and just when I had started to give up.
The poker sites messed with the bloggers by spamming the comments/trackback on their blogs.
Just having the page in the same paragraph where online poker is mentioned will help a little.
Yeah, messing with bloggers might not have been the best idea...
It will be interesting to see if there is the usual 24 hour turnaround on a fix for this from the Mozilla Foundation. Lord knows Microsoft probably won't lift a finger to fix it.