Wouldn't Google still be considered a common carrier? They didn't produce the stuff, why would they filter it.
IIRC.. if a common carrier started to filter out results that they thought were unfavorable, then they'd have to filter ALL illegal content, because then they become a delivery source.
Unfortunately, a government entity that I work with uses MS Word templates for certain forms they put out, and if you bring them into OOo.. it mangles them beyond being useful.
One of my littlest bitches about Linux is one of my biggest things.
Humans are creatures of habit. I use Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical (Yes, the $20 one). It has three buttons. Left, right, wheel. The wheel is up/down scroll, and then a middle button you can press to click.
Using Intellipoint on Windows, you can assign that button however you want it to be. I have mine assigned as "Back". So, in my browser, I can click it and go "Back". In Windows Explorer / My Computer I can click it and go "Back".
In Linux, it's been stated that ALT-L is "Back" in almost everything that it is in Windows. Cool. So how the **** do you set it that way in Linux? Who the f*** knows.. someone does obviously. But it's a "find this file and be careful with it and add these following things exactly, then save it and restart X and you're done." Follow the directions exactly and.. Uuh.. Why isn't X starting. Oh well, take the changes out of the file. Ok. Start X. Uuuh. X still don't work.
Fixing that for ME isn't a biggie. But what about someone who knows how to turn on the machine. They're not going to be able to re-assign the buttons easily.
Ok. that's my rant #1.
Rant #2? Fonts.
MAKE-THINGS-LOOK-EXACTLY-LIKE-THEY-DO-IN-WINDOWS.
Firefox in Linux.. no matter how many MS TTFs I install and assign, still DO NOT LOOK THE SAME. It is harder for me to see, and it hurts my eyes.
Couple other little mouse issues, see if Valve will put out a Steam client for DOD.. and I'll be all the way ready to switch (again). But this time with a terminal server running Winword and Access (which I Have to Have).
I was flamed in a previous post by people when I first mentioned this: But I have Karma to burn so flame me again!
This is the SAME Blizzard who couldn't manage the hacks / cheats / dupes / cross-realm bugged items in Diablo II. Sure, Diablo II was a free to play on Battle.net so you get what you pay for, but the mismanagment of the realms / game are now showing through on a service that ISN'T FREE.
Friends of mine are trying to get me to play WoW, and I refuse. I will _never_ buy or play another Blizzard managed game, due to my experiences with Diablo II.
Blizzard is good at one thing: Making games
They are not good at:
Managing reliable online play experiences. Customer service (forums, call center, online chat). Timely responses to anything.
And to even consider $15 a MONTH, for me, is stupid.
Lenovo started spamming us with quotes for systems. When we responded to their spam with "We didn't request this from you", they responded with "But we're the greatest!!!". We replied and said "Well, those machines don't even meet our minimum specifications." and they replied back "Well, you're just stupid for not providing us with that information in the first place."
Stupid?
Really?
How about this: F*** off and don't call us.. ever.
I'd say the monolithic kernel of Netware *is* a little arcane. Novell has seen the light and is moving to put all their services on top of a Linux kernel.
They are winning on the technical front, they just couldn't market water to a dying man in the desert.
Anything that uses NDS is out of the question since no ones uses it anymore and it makes sure any Novel future product will not hurt MS as much.
Really? So THIS is nobody? Look down at the lower right of the screen. What part of Novell do you think they run? Hint, it's not printer or file sharing.
Oh, and it's not NDS any more. It's eDirectory. It's what LDAP wishes it could be (oh, and it's backwards compatible with LDAP). I have a client running Squid, authenticating against the eDirectory for surfing the web.
I think Novell COULD have a fighting chance, if they bought Codeweavers, shipped Crossover office with every copy of their enterprise desktop. Oh, and poured some manpower into it to make certain applications (Quickbooks, anyone) run using it. Quickbooks is the main reason my small business can't run Suse (or any distro, for that matter) on the desktop - and I don't mean partially running it. Some would argue that I should dump QB and go to something open source.. but when your CPA requests that you use QB... And no, I can't convert her to Linux / whatever other Open Source software because she has other clients that will only use QB, so that's not an argument.
I'm sorry, but OOo isn't there yet IMO. The VBA Macros that the enterprise linux supports is a BIG step, IMO, but that's not all.
they turned me off when the freaky ass commercial came on TV, told me that napster was my friend (really?!?!) and then in some devilish little girl voice said "have everything, own nothing".. sounded somewhat socialist to me..
It's not like AOL already doesn't block access to things on the Internet they deem unacceptable. Even things that are completely legal in all sense of the word, they decide to block. You just get a "Page could not be displayed".
I run a double opt-in mailing list (they sign up, they receive confirmation, they confirm, THEN they get email) for Classic (75-79) Honda Goldwings. We have AOL members on the list, and we will NOT pay any kind of tax. We'll just tell the users (before AOL goes to this "Tax") that if they get the list emailings, then great. If not, blame AOL. It sure won't be our fault.
I've never had email delivery problems, except by one RBL a long time ago (some obscure one, too). They've since shut down.
But AOL decides to do this crap.. then too bad for their customers. I dont use em.
Every system I install "new out of the box" gets the following:
All software installed as "value add" gets un-done, with the exception of the CD Burning software. That includes MusicMatch, Dell software (dell support, dell media center, etc), any Light version of any software, and the photo editing software that sucks so bad.
Then I run EasyCleaner (ToniArts) and clean the puppy up.
Install F-Prot and turn on the Windows firewall (unless, of course, the PC is on a LAN with a firewall).
Marvel at the fast new machine.
Scream in horror that the user can't find the big blue "E" for Internet (even though there's an orange icon that says "INTERNET".
Naaah, ill bet they're looking to get bought by Google (heck, their demo even has the search results as they would appear on the GOOG home page).
Sounds good to me though:)
The web spidering capabilities of GooG, with the downloading of every exe/zip/rar/etc, with a browser plugin (built into the GooG browser too!) to tell you what EXE files are bad.. and the Internet could actually be safe again..
Took a freshly installed WindowsXP machine, service pack nothing. Started up IExplore and set out to infect myself.
I'll tell you what, there's a site I hit, that the second I got there, the computer seemed to lock up (the VMWare session went to 99%) for about 20 seconds. Then it came back to reality, the browser closed, the MS Picture viewer rendered a file called 892f98lkf43.WMF and then it closed. All of a sudden, I had about 10 toolbars, SpySheriff, my desktop changed to a "YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED WITH SPYWARE" black screen with white writing. SpySheriff made the system keep saying (from the task bar) "Windows has detected a spyware infection". That's deceptive, as it seems like Windows found it, but I digress.
I tried to change the wallpaper, but it was disabled. When I brought IE back up, it went to c:\secure32.html.. on it was my IP address (of my outside net), my ISP (RR is all it said), and it mentioned that I was infected with spyware and would be investigated. It mentioned I should immediately run an anti-spyware check on my PC.
I browsed back to the web, and was assaulted by porn. Not just big tits, washed up adult models, but stuff that would probably pique the interest of law enforcement (lolitas, etc). Some of it said "all models 18" but those didn't LOOK 18 enough for me.
All brought to my VMWare machine by some website that auto-downloaded a BUNCH of stuff on my computer.
For the final test, I downloaded StopZilla, which asked for a reboot. After I rebooted, all of the exploits on my machine were GONE. Fixed. Or, at least, quarantined.
I worked at a local hospital chain. When I started there we had -ZERO- onsite spare parts. Over the 2 years I worked there, through "creative manipulation" of the budgeting system (ways we could slip things into requests.. since we bought Compaq servers piecemeal), I had a complete brand-new server under my desk, and a whole overhead bin full of spare parts.
I became the server spare parts guy, except that everyone but the CIO knew who it was. Even he had an idea about it, and didn't mind (as my spare parts box ended up saving us from significant downtime -- several times over).
My policy was "sure, here, sign this piece of paper, taking responsibility for the part. you're expected to replace the part with the part you receive for the broken part (either through warranty, or outright replacement)."
Oh, and did I mention that I was able to upgrade pretty much every old, cantankerous server out there, with at LEAST a newer model server - with fresh drives?
I had a chart on my wall. "Rob's Server Circus". It had a list of names, with lines drawn all over it, showing what my planned migration path was. All with no "official" replacement budget.
It seems like people are spouting all of this "oh, it looks so good on HD". Who gives one rat's ass. To me, it's like saying "Well, the crap they're producing sucks, so we'll give it to them in Hi-Def and then they'll be so distracted by how GOOD it looks, that we don't have to have a good story."
Look at all those great stories that were produced (and loved by generations) before all this digital crap came out. Sound of Music? It's a Wonderful Life? Annie? Those were good stories, and the quality sucked. But if the story / content is awesome, who cares if you're "immersed" in the spectacular quality. You want to see it high quality? Get off your couch and go there. Grand Canyon in Hi Def? Please. Go there, see it's breathtaking beauty. Then you can look at whatever you want to see -- without having to see what the director wanted you to see. Sporting events? Who needs to see the sweat beading off the football player's ass. Action movies? Why do we need to see every droplet of blood that flew off the bad guy's head.
Booooring.
I have better things to spend my money on. DVD works just fine for me (and honestly, if I really want to see it.. I'll just get it on Pay per View, or on HBO On Demand).
WTF would I purchase a $199 Windows XP license for an old clunker running for seniors or kids or a non-profit.. when I can get old, wiped, non Windows licensed computers donated, and then throw a FREE os on it?
Even *IF* Windows and Linux performed the same (which I doubt.. given that Linux can be tweaked to take up VERY little RAM.. ever try to run WinXP in 32mb ram? Now start a browser. Cant? Duuh. Linux? 32mb? Sure. It'll be slow, too but not as slow as Windows).
If you read TFA, it also mentioned not to put too much into ththe data recorded about the vulnerabilities: as not all of the vulnerabilities reported were distinct incidents (and some were 1 vulnerability for multiple bugs).
Also, with as many DIFFERENCES as there are between, say Apple, Sun, SCO, Linux.. how can you say that *ix is more / less safe than Windows, especially considering that not all vulnerabilities affected all platforms.
If you wanted to be more specific, then add up vulnerabilities for EACH os (not just *ix all in one lump sum), and compare them to Windows (and to be fair, put all versions seperately).
The thing we all need to realize is this: No computer hoooked to a network (including the Internet) is safe. Period.
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Wouldn't Google still be considered a common carrier? They didn't produce the stuff, why would they filter it.
.. if a common carrier started to filter out results that they thought were unfavorable, then they'd have to filter ALL illegal content, because then they become a delivery source.
IIRC
So why is Google filtering the stuff?
Or would they not be common carrier?
Unfortunately, a government entity that I work with uses MS Word templates for certain forms they put out, and if you bring them into OOo .. it mangles them beyond being useful.
Access isn't for me...It's a product I support.
Amen to that.
.. someone does obviously. But it's a "find this file and be careful with it and add these following things exactly, then save it and restart X and you're done." Follow the directions exactly and .. Uuh .. Why isn't X starting. Oh well, take the changes out of the file. Ok. Start X. Uuuh. X still don't work.
.. no matter how many MS TTFs I install and assign, still DO NOT LOOK THE SAME. It is harder for me to see, and it hurts my eyes.
.. and I'll be all the way ready to switch (again). But this time with a terminal server running Winword and Access (which I Have to Have).
One of my littlest bitches about Linux is one of my biggest things.
Humans are creatures of habit. I use Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical (Yes, the $20 one). It has three buttons. Left, right, wheel. The wheel is up/down scroll, and then a middle button you can press to click.
Using Intellipoint on Windows, you can assign that button however you want it to be. I have mine assigned as "Back". So, in my browser, I can click it and go "Back". In Windows Explorer / My Computer I can click it and go "Back".
In Linux, it's been stated that ALT-L is "Back" in almost everything that it is in Windows. Cool. So how the **** do you set it that way in Linux? Who the f*** knows
Fixing that for ME isn't a biggie. But what about someone who knows how to turn on the machine. They're not going to be able to re-assign the buttons easily.
Ok. that's my rant #1.
Rant #2? Fonts.
MAKE-THINGS-LOOK-EXACTLY-LIKE-THEY-DO-IN-WINDOWS.
Firefox in Linux
Couple other little mouse issues, see if Valve will put out a Steam client for DOD
I'll bet the NSA already analyzed the code .. just call them and ask for the decryption for i(NO CARRIER)
I was flamed in a previous post by people when I first mentioned this: But I have Karma to burn so flame me again!
This is the SAME Blizzard who couldn't manage the hacks / cheats / dupes / cross-realm bugged items in Diablo II. Sure, Diablo II was a free to play on Battle.net so you get what you pay for, but the mismanagment of the realms / game are now showing through on a service that ISN'T FREE.
Friends of mine are trying to get me to play WoW, and I refuse. I will _never_ buy or play another Blizzard managed game, due to my experiences with Diablo II.
Blizzard is good at one thing: Making games
They are not good at:
Managing reliable online play experiences.
Customer service (forums, call center, online chat).
Timely responses to anything.
And to even consider $15 a MONTH, for me, is stupid.
Flame suit firmly snugged up.
Lenovo started spamming us with quotes for systems. When we responded to their spam with "We didn't request this from you", they responded with "But we're the greatest!!!". We replied and said "Well, those machines don't even meet our minimum specifications." and they replied back "Well, you're just stupid for not providing us with that information in the first place."
.. ever.
Stupid?
Really?
How about this: F*** off and don't call us
I'm a Vonage customer and couldn't be more happy.
.. and I think I'd use my cell for that...
I've never experienced a loss or major call quality, even when my ISP hits 250-350ms ping (as they sometimes do!).
Though, I've never call 911 from it
I'd say the monolithic kernel of Netware *is* a little arcane. Novell has seen the light and is moving to put all their services on top of a Linux kernel.
They are winning on the technical front, they just couldn't market water to a dying man in the desert.
Really? So THIS is nobody? Look down at the lower right of the screen. What part of Novell do you think they run? Hint, it's not printer or file sharing.
Oh, and it's not NDS any more. It's eDirectory. It's what LDAP wishes it could be (oh, and it's backwards compatible with LDAP). I have a client running Squid, authenticating against the eDirectory for surfing the web.
So, no, NDS isn't dead.
I'm sorry, but OOo isn't there yet IMO. The VBA Macros that the enterprise linux supports is a BIG step, IMO, but that's not all.
Does rdesktop do printers?
So they can share music, movies, pr0n, all wirelessly?
Or so they can sit in class and play online games while the prof is droning on and on?
Why is this necessary?
they turned me off when the freaky ass commercial came on TV, told me that napster was my friend (really?!?!) and then in some devilish little girl voice said "have everything, own nothing" .. sounded somewhat socialist to me..
It's not like AOL already doesn't block access to things on the Internet they deem unacceptable. Even things that are completely legal in all sense of the word, they decide to block. You just get a "Page could not be displayed".
.. then too bad for their customers. I dont use em.
I run a double opt-in mailing list (they sign up, they receive confirmation, they confirm, THEN they get email) for Classic (75-79) Honda Goldwings. We have AOL members on the list, and we will NOT pay any kind of tax. We'll just tell the users (before AOL goes to this "Tax") that if they get the list emailings, then great. If not, blame AOL. It sure won't be our fault.
I've never had email delivery problems, except by one RBL a long time ago (some obscure one, too). They've since shut down.
But AOL decides to do this crap
If you want to make the world better,
....
Make the check out to
ME!!
Oh wait..
Why have I not seen a comment yet that said
And in Redmond today, a chair flew out of Ballmer's office and a scream was heard "I'm going to f*$#ing kill IBM!!!!!!"
Oops..I just made it.
Looks like vaporware to me.
recruiting info all over their website. a photoshopped render of what they say it'll look like. no action shots?
ill wait before i invest my pennies.
And dont you think that Panasonic, et all, wouldn't snap this guy up in a second if he REALLY had something?
I've done the same. Except I use a specific comment tag when encoding MP3s .. I didn't encode 256k in 1997 .. i encoded in 192k...
Every system I install "new out of the box" gets the following:
All software installed as "value add" gets un-done, with the exception of the CD Burning software. That includes MusicMatch, Dell software (dell support, dell media center, etc), any Light version of any software, and the photo editing software that sucks so bad.
Then I run EasyCleaner (ToniArts) and clean the puppy up.
Install F-Prot and turn on the Windows firewall (unless, of course, the PC is on a LAN with a firewall).
Marvel at the fast new machine.
Scream in horror that the user can't find the big blue "E" for Internet (even though there's an orange icon that says "INTERNET".
Naaah, ill bet they're looking to get bought by Google (heck, their demo even has the search results as they would appear on the GOOG home page).
:)
.. and the Internet could actually be safe again..
Sounds good to me though
The web spidering capabilities of GooG, with the downloading of every exe/zip/rar/etc, with a browser plugin (built into the GooG browser too!) to tell you what EXE files are bad
hmmmmmmm
Took a freshly installed WindowsXP machine, service pack nothing. Started up IExplore and set out to infect myself.
.. on it was my IP address (of my outside net), my ISP (RR is all it said), and it mentioned that I was infected with spyware and would be investigated. It mentioned I should immediately run an anti-spyware check on my PC.
I'll tell you what, there's a site I hit, that the second I got there, the computer seemed to lock up (the VMWare session went to 99%) for about 20 seconds. Then it came back to reality, the browser closed, the MS Picture viewer rendered a file called 892f98lkf43.WMF and then it closed. All of a sudden, I had about 10 toolbars, SpySheriff, my desktop changed to a "YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED WITH SPYWARE" black screen with white writing. SpySheriff made the system keep saying (from the task bar) "Windows has detected a spyware infection". That's deceptive, as it seems like Windows found it, but I digress.
I tried to change the wallpaper, but it was disabled. When I brought IE back up, it went to c:\secure32.html
I browsed back to the web, and was assaulted by porn. Not just big tits, washed up adult models, but stuff that would probably pique the interest of law enforcement (lolitas, etc). Some of it said "all models 18" but those didn't LOOK 18 enough for me.
All brought to my VMWare machine by some website that auto-downloaded a BUNCH of stuff on my computer.
For the final test, I downloaded StopZilla, which asked for a reboot. After I rebooted, all of the exploits on my machine were GONE. Fixed. Or, at least, quarantined.
Delted / wiped the vmx file.
whew!
I worked at a local hospital chain. When I started there we had -ZERO- onsite spare parts. Over the 2 years I worked there, through "creative manipulation" of the budgeting system (ways we could slip things into requests .. since we bought Compaq servers piecemeal), I had a complete brand-new server under my desk, and a whole overhead bin full of spare parts.
I became the server spare parts guy, except that everyone but the CIO knew who it was. Even he had an idea about it, and didn't mind (as my spare parts box ended up saving us from significant downtime -- several times over).
My policy was "sure, here, sign this piece of paper, taking responsibility for the part. you're expected to replace the part with the part you receive for the broken part (either through warranty, or outright replacement)."
Oh, and did I mention that I was able to upgrade pretty much every old, cantankerous server out there, with at LEAST a newer model server - with fresh drives?
I had a chart on my wall. "Rob's Server Circus". It had a list of names, with lines drawn all over it, showing what my planned migration path was. All with no "official" replacement budget.
Why? Why do I want this?
.. I'll just get it on Pay per View, or on HBO On Demand).
It seems like people are spouting all of this "oh, it looks so good on HD". Who gives one rat's ass. To me, it's like saying "Well, the crap they're producing sucks, so we'll give it to them in Hi-Def and then they'll be so distracted by how GOOD it looks, that we don't have to have a good story."
Look at all those great stories that were produced (and loved by generations) before all this digital crap came out. Sound of Music? It's a Wonderful Life? Annie? Those were good stories, and the quality sucked. But if the story / content is awesome, who cares if you're "immersed" in the spectacular quality. You want to see it high quality? Get off your couch and go there. Grand Canyon in Hi Def? Please. Go there, see it's breathtaking beauty. Then you can look at whatever you want to see -- without having to see what the director wanted you to see. Sporting events? Who needs to see the sweat beading off the football player's ass. Action movies? Why do we need to see every droplet of blood that flew off the bad guy's head.
Booooring.
I have better things to spend my money on. DVD works just fine for me (and honestly, if I really want to see it
Why do people install Linux on older hardware?
.. when I can get old, wiped, non Windows licensed computers donated, and then throw a FREE os on it?
.. given that Linux can be tweaked to take up VERY little RAM .. ever try to run WinXP in 32mb ram? Now start a browser. Cant? Duuh. Linux? 32mb? Sure. It'll be slow, too but not as slow as Windows).
Simple. Windows licensing.
WTF would I purchase a $199 Windows XP license for an old clunker running for seniors or kids or a non-profit
Even *IF* Windows and Linux performed the same (which I doubt
If you read TFA, it also mentioned not to put too much into ththe data recorded about the vulnerabilities: as not all of the vulnerabilities reported were distinct incidents (and some were 1 vulnerability for multiple bugs).
.. how can you say that *ix is more / less safe than Windows, especially considering that not all vulnerabilities affected all platforms.
Also, with as many DIFFERENCES as there are between, say Apple, Sun, SCO, Linux
If you wanted to be more specific, then add up vulnerabilities for EACH os (not just *ix all in one lump sum), and compare them to Windows (and to be fair, put all versions seperately).
The thing we all need to realize is this: No computer hoooked to a network (including the Internet) is safe. Period.