My parents upgraded to MSN 8 recently, which brags endlessly about how it blocks popups. Well, Ok. After the initial installation, with screen after screen bragging about how much the user will love this new version and how it effectly stops this, the first thing it does is give you about 3 popups to places like Expedia and Microsoft. Yeah sure, they'll block popups, as long as they're not Microsoft's! Also, the new web page to get mail from, is so loaded with advertisments and banners, that it takes forever for a modem user to load the page - how annoying for those on dialup!
I don't think MS gets it. XP in point, those stupid information balloons that popup from the taskbar everytime you log on. 'Make a wallet account now', 'Unused Icons on your desktop', 'Update now' (even when Update is turned off and a SUS server is in use for updates). Sometimes they popup twice each before going away. Using sysprep doesn't work, because on the ghost - it put's them all back! Including the Media Player shortcut that was on the desktop that was deleted before sysprep! Group policy also doesn't work well in getting rid of these little buggers. (We have the educational OS)
SCC filed a antitrust suit back in Feb. Hopefully this new ruling will give them something to push back with. But since the courts favored Lexmark originally, SCC was forced to pull their cartridges. The damage may have already been done.
The fact that you don't get that, makes me worry that you ever attempted to teach teenagers in the first place. The fact that an adult role model can lead a classroom with an attitude of calling their students 'twit-bitches' with low IQs, is abusively stunning. Even when upper administrators tried to set you straight, your high and mighty attitude wouldn't let you see just how demoralizing you were. So you moved into higher ed where there were less constraints and you could bully freely - well then, bully for you!
Reminds me of watching Scary Movie 2. I hadn't seen the first one, had only caught the commercials for it. We went with another couple, got there early to watch the trailers. So the next 'trailer' comes on and starts with that scene in the beginning, where the excorsist girl pees on the floor. I whispered to my husband, 'man, that movie is going to suck. I wonder what kind of fool will be stuck with that?' If it wasn't so dark, I'm sure the look on my face was classic as it finally dawned on me that we were the fools about to trudge through such trash. All agreed that it was the worst movie we had ever seen.
Really I am, I started life in the commercial world, then moved over to the military engineering side for many years. I loved the challenge of military projects. Just too cool to be working on submarines and torpedos and what not, esp surrounded by a bunch of like-minded, introverted, sometimes-off-the-wall engineer types. Amazingly better and more thought enhancing than the commercial side of things, which I would never go back to. But then I left that for public education several years ago and I would have to say I hit pay dirt. The salary remained about the same, healthy for IT, but not great to other commercial salaries, but the satisfaction sky rocketed. There was just so much to do, build labs, get people online, teach teachers, help with curriculum, start computer clubs and robotics clubs, build those robots. From routers to desktops and everything inbetween, you can make your job be anything you want it to be. Plus we have lots of vacation time, fire drills on nice days, and I get to go to pep rallies!! I tell you it is very weird to have a pep rally day, and everyone is supposed to be there, you get there and think, they are paying me for this?
The teachers are wonderful, the kids are like sponges and want to learn everything. It is a good place to be, and everybody loves you (ok a few may hate you, but it becomes insignifigant) . Really, I have people who hug me. Think about that. I get paid to do what I love to do anyway, and people hug me for it!!! Yep, I love my job.
I watched one of those news specials on the whole debeers mess and I thought I might vomit right there. That camp where they chop their arms off if they don't do as told. And murdering workers if they try to work for someone else. I looked over at my husband and said, that's it, no more diamonds for me! Even their commercials make me sick. It was a major, major turnoff, 100 times worse than the whole fur coat mess. These are human beings in the middle!
I am an introvert, I have always known that, and realize that I get along with machines/code rather than people. Some of it is a control thing, I can eventually get them to do what I want, make them better somehow. I find most introverts are also fixers.
I also had an abusive childhood, raised in a belittling, controling, narcissistic family, and was bullied greatly in high school. I was not a shy child, to be an introvert was more of a learned thing from too many years of rejection. It was survival and self protection to be locked away in a lab versus out on the main floor with everyone else. Like you, when I found work in an engineering environment, I finally felt at home. There were introverts of all kinds, some programmers sneaking in at 5am just to avoid running into people. I have noticed that most extrovert engineer types, are the ones that end up in management.
But it is possible to 'unshy' yourself. You have to work at it, make an effort, find out where it went wrong for you, and fix yourself. If we spend just a tiny portion of the amount of time on ourselves, as we spend fixing other things, there can be marked improvement. Introverts have serious boundries. They need to know what they are so they can protect them. They need to find the boundries that are not so important, and bring those walls down.
I figure, if I don't find a similarly antisocial girl who has the same interests by the time I'm 40, I'm just not going to reproduce. Maybe one day I'll clone myself, just for the techie bragging rights, but probably not.;)
My husband is the social one. An engineer, he brings the friends in and makes my life more full. I would sit home night after night if not for him. You are not doomed to a life of antisocial behavior, and by allowing someone in who is not as introverted as you, can bring balance into your life.
some books that have helped me (along with lots of counseling!) are 'Journey from Abandonment to Healing, by Susan Anderson; Codependent No More, by Melodie Beattie; Woman Who Love to Much (this is about boundaries, and I think there is one for men) He's Scared/She's Scared by Steven Carter is about commitmentphobia; and an audio tape "Warming the Stone Child: Myths & Stories About Abandonment and the Unmothered Child"
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, surprised me with its sweetness. Guys may find it corny to have a soft voice read a myth to you, but it grabbed me in the first minute about what rejected/neglected childhoods are like. And when she got to side 2, and talked about how it all culminates in adolescence; how we are 'like walking trees, trying to plant ourselves', it just sort of broke my heart to find myself there. I know I kept landing in swamps for far too long. Best of luck to you.
Actually, I did that myself. Windows 3.1, shaved down, kept solitaire. One HPII printer driver. A shaved down version of WordPerfect 5.1, with one font. All on one diskette. There was room for a couple of documents too, as most only took up 1 to 2 K. No tables or anything fancy.
This was early laptop days, when they were bulky and pricey, so I would make them for guys going on travel. All they needed was any old computer and they could boot, type and print their stuff out.
If you have the resource kits, both 3.1 and WP were 90 percent bloat.
They say terrorists can bid, because they will be totally anonymous - yeah right!
I know there are a lot of criminals that are considered dumb, like the kind of small theft guys that walk through the snow or use their driver's license, leaving easy identifaction of themselves. But do they really think real terrorists are that dumb? It almost sounds like a giant sting operation, hoping the bad guys will bet on themselves.
The worst was a health teacher who just sent the kids willy-nilly into a lab to do research on SEX! Unbelievable! Unsupervised! 10th graders were searching sex, protection, diseases, etc. Nothing but porn was popping up! (this was before filters) We were all just dumbfounded in the tech dept.
Best was a home-ec teacher who asked first the best approach to bring her class in for the first time. We explained about proper research, and that the Internet was just another tool for research, not a replacement for the library and other means. And also, that a teacher should do a few searches that they expect the students to do, so they can see for themselves what type of hits they'll be getting. So she came in with magazines and newspapers, and a paper typed up with good search words to use for the research, 3 links that she deemed worth looking into, and a requirement that one of their sources had to come from the library or one of the magazines she brought in. It was very well put together, and the students responded in good academic fashion, unlike the porn kids where it was utter chaos and embarassment.
Really, when you work with large amounts of tech types - programmers, engineers, scientists, admins, similar personality types emerge. Most tech types are slightly to severely introverted, highly focused in one area, some are slightly (even severely) autistic, and would rather work with their hardware, software, germs, than deal with large groups of people. A good tech/programmer manager will recognize these personality traits and use them to their advantage to get the job done.
I once knew an engineer who was given a corner office where he worked with his door closed - always - he was a phantom - and yet produced some of the most advanced goods for whatever project he was working on. He did not know how to socialize at all. Management was unfazed, and gave him what he needed to produce - privacy.
I work with high school kids - here's a pair - one meticulous and efficient - the other very hyper and ADHD (thus this set him up to be bullied in school). ADHD got the all the little tasks and was the 'runner' for a lab we were putting in. (No, I wasn't giving him the crap jobs, his attention span didn't allow him to do anything that lasted more than a few minutes, and to burn all that extra steam, he was always sent to get things, or check things. Also, I did increase his tasks a few minutes at a time, to get him accustomed to it) Mr. meticulous was the organizer and planner. He was a little miffed at the end, when he felt he had accomplished more than the other. I reminded him that a good team takes all types, and if his team mate hadn't taken care of all the little things, he would not have had time to think about what he was doing, and get the job done on time.
It may seem funny to poke fun at tech guys and how they can't get a girl, but there is more to it than that. There are reasons for feeling good about hanging around in the lab versus the lounge. What keeps YOU there? Fear? Shyness? Anticipation of rejection? Slightly narcissistic? Limited social skills? Feel like you're on the outside looking in? Were you too, bullied in school? I think it is difficult to find a more diverse array of personalities, some of the quirkiest found, and also the kindest and most intelligent, than you will find in the tech field.
Companies will automate the process so their copyrights will last as long as possible. It will only be the occasional person who forgets to renew.
I don't know about that. Look how many domain names expire every day only to be scooped up by some unscrupulous party, and many of those are still active and in use daily.
This sort of strikes me as taking advantage of the too busy and ignorant out there, and by default many copyrights will default to the public. How many millions of dollars are out there just waiting to be claimed by the owner of some forgotten bank account?
"Okay... Trusted computing... Just running programs I trust... Kinda like not running an attachment just because it's there... Great...".....
"But legally, can Microsoft only trust who they want?"
Exactly. I find it interesting that in the last year, the upgrades to Outlook have stripped out the ability to receive a.EXE file as an attachment. No radio button option to enable/disable this, just gone. You have to know how to hack the registry to put it back. We used little web cams in some of our elem schools, and the kids would make little clips of themselves singing or whatever, and mail them to their parents. Now, we have to rename the files to end in.DOC so the attachment will go through. I don't have the exact numbers, but I'm betting that their are more Word (*.DOC) virus files out there than any number of.EXE combined.
Sounds like that's left over from a mass mailer virus that was going around a couple of years back. It took everyone in the address book and added 'Hi' to the subject line so ppl would think it was from a friend. That's gone by though and very easily picked up from any virus detection package. Sounds like your net admin needs to get back in there and tweak the filter settings.
"I've been thinking about my attraction to 'lost arts', "
There is a show on Home and Garden (HGTV) called 'Modern Masters'. It is amazing that many of the crafts admired from centuries gone by are still handed down through generations. Hand carved moldings, glass art, welding and intricate fence making. Basket making using reeds gathered yourself. It's the kind of stuff, when you walk through a city or a historic district, and look at the stunning architecure and wonder, 'how the heck did they make this stuff back then?' It's nice to know some of these crafts are not dead after all.
We had one child domain here, and I'll never do that again! It was on a T1/384 frame, and it would lose site of the other AD servers quite frequently. The building would remain functional, but I could see the errors, sometimes not even being able to find it in network neighborhood, esp from Win 9.x machines. We finally got a new server, so I was able to move everything off of the old one and take the domain out. What a pain! And it has still taken a bite out of our AD and DNS. (our roles master just went south right after that - and I am now putting in a new, more powerful server to move the roles over) I have errors now that I didn't have before. Even though the network appears to be fully operational, and the end-user doesn't see what I see, certain DNS tests fail:
netdom reset domainname
The RPC server is unavailable
netdom reset 4.0servername
access denied
It especially kicked our last 2 4.0 servers off, killing the trust. These were non-essestional servers, and I was in the process of converting them anyway, so I could deal with this, but it was still a pain.
There is no reason why you shouldn't have full control over your own OU. And besides, even with a Child, it all shows up in the same AD anyway. You will see them, they will see you - so don't delude yourself into thinking that might give you any additional control.
That's what I was wondering. Why did he plead guilty? $$ probably. Getting sued or arrested for this type of stuff is becoming more like extortion lately. I would have liked to see this one play out in the courts. People simply cannot afford the battle, so they cave in. It's not against the law to make and sell bullets, so why the hell would it be to make a mod chip?
Because of the sophistication of the technology and the expertise needed to install and manage such systems, Napster network operators can't help but be aware of the copyright infringement they facilitate. Indeed, each of the accused operators has seeded his services with hundreds -- and in some cases, thousands -- of copyrighted works.
This is just nuts. You don't need any "expertise" to install napster type programs and it is certainly not "sophisticated" by any stretch of the imagination. Doesn't the RIAA have any clue as to why they are so popular? Any 5yr old to 90yr old can do it. These programs manage themselves - haven't they got that yet? And why the network operators? Maybe I missed something here, they didn't get too technical. But I work in a school system, and our little kiddies are always doing this. They download some type of file sharing app, they all have home directories and they are unable to save to any local drives, so naturally all the music shows up on the server. I do not have time to watch the server to see this music show up. Periodically, around once or twice a year, I will sit at a server (I run 12 buildings) and search for things that end in.MP3 or.EXE and delete them all. I average around 1000 to 2000 MP3 every time I do this. I once had a teacher who took up 2GB of MP3s. Again, this is just nuts, and an extreme bully tactic at the wrong people and I hope the school stands behind their employees and students. (if they actually caught a student with a 1000 mp3 on their personal hard drive, I would have less of an issue)
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My parents upgraded to MSN 8 recently, which brags endlessly about how it blocks popups. Well, Ok. After the initial installation, with screen after screen bragging about how much the user will love this new version and how it effectly stops this, the first thing it does is give you about 3 popups to places like Expedia and Microsoft. Yeah sure, they'll block popups, as long as they're not Microsoft's! Also, the new web page to get mail from, is so loaded with advertisments and banners, that it takes forever for a modem user to load the page - how annoying for those on dialup!
I don't think MS gets it. XP in point, those stupid information balloons that popup from the taskbar everytime you log on. 'Make a wallet account now', 'Unused Icons on your desktop', 'Update now' (even when Update is turned off and a SUS server is in use for updates). Sometimes they popup twice each before going away. Using sysprep doesn't work, because on the ghost - it put's them all back! Including the Media Player shortcut that was on the desktop that was deleted before sysprep! Group policy also doesn't work well in getting rid of these little buggers. (We have the educational OS)
SCC filed a antitrust suit back in Feb. Hopefully this new ruling will give them something to push back with. But since the courts favored Lexmark originally, SCC was forced to pull their cartridges. The damage may have already been done.
"both excessive and public humiliation"
The fact that you don't get that, makes me worry that you ever attempted to teach teenagers in the first place. The fact that an adult role model can lead a classroom with an attitude of calling their students 'twit-bitches' with low IQs, is abusively stunning. Even when upper administrators tried to set you straight, your high and mighty attitude wouldn't let you see just how demoralizing you were. So you moved into higher ed where there were less constraints and you could bully freely - well then, bully for you!
Reminds me of watching Scary Movie 2. I hadn't seen the first one, had only caught the commercials for it. We went with another couple, got there early to watch the trailers. So the next 'trailer' comes on and starts with that scene in the beginning, where the excorsist girl pees on the floor. I whispered to my husband, 'man, that movie is going to suck. I wonder what kind of fool will be stuck with that?' If it wasn't so dark, I'm sure the look on my face was classic as it finally dawned on me that we were the fools about to trudge through such trash. All agreed that it was the worst movie we had ever seen.
Really I am, I started life in the commercial world, then moved over to the military engineering side for many years. I loved the challenge of military projects. Just too cool to be working on submarines and torpedos and what not, esp surrounded by a bunch of like-minded, introverted, sometimes-off-the-wall engineer types. Amazingly better and more thought enhancing than the commercial side of things, which I would never go back to. But then I left that for public education several years ago and I would have to say I hit pay dirt. The salary remained about the same, healthy for IT, but not great to other commercial salaries, but the satisfaction sky rocketed. There was just so much to do, build labs, get people online, teach teachers, help with curriculum, start computer clubs and robotics clubs, build those robots. From routers to desktops and everything inbetween, you can make your job be anything you want it to be. Plus we have lots of vacation time, fire drills on nice days, and I get to go to pep rallies!! I tell you it is very weird to have a pep rally day, and everyone is supposed to be there, you get there and think, they are paying me for this?
The teachers are wonderful, the kids are like sponges and want to learn everything. It is a good place to be, and everybody loves you (ok a few may hate you, but it becomes insignifigant) . Really, I have people who hug me. Think about that. I get paid to do what I love to do anyway, and people hug me for it!!! Yep, I love my job.
Or maybe they just haven't seen the news on it?
I watched one of those news specials on the whole debeers mess and I thought I might vomit right there. That camp where they chop their arms off if they don't do as told. And murdering workers if they try to work for someone else. I looked over at my husband and said, that's it, no more diamonds for me! Even their commercials make me sick. It was a major, major turnoff, 100 times worse than the whole fur coat mess. These are human beings in the middle!
I am an introvert, I have always known that, and realize that I get along with machines/code rather than people. Some of it is a control thing, I can eventually get them to do what I want, make them better somehow. I find most introverts are also fixers.
;)
I also had an abusive childhood, raised in a belittling, controling, narcissistic family, and was bullied greatly in high school. I was not a shy child, to be an introvert was more of a learned thing from too many years of rejection. It was survival and self protection to be locked away in a lab versus out on the main floor with everyone else. Like you, when I found work in an engineering environment, I finally felt at home. There were introverts of all kinds, some programmers sneaking in at 5am just to avoid running into people. I have noticed that most extrovert engineer types, are the ones that end up in management.
But it is possible to 'unshy' yourself. You have to work at it, make an effort, find out where it went wrong for you, and fix yourself. If we spend just a tiny portion of the amount of time on ourselves, as we spend fixing other things, there can be marked improvement. Introverts have serious boundries. They need to know what they are so they can protect them. They need to find the boundries that are not so important, and bring those walls down.
I figure, if I don't find a similarly antisocial girl who has the same interests by the time I'm 40, I'm just not going to reproduce. Maybe one day I'll clone myself, just for the techie bragging rights, but probably not.
My husband is the social one. An engineer, he brings the friends in and makes my life more full. I would sit home night after night if not for him. You are not doomed to a life of antisocial behavior, and by allowing someone in who is not as introverted as you, can bring balance into your life.
some books that have helped me (along with lots of counseling!) are 'Journey from Abandonment to Healing, by Susan Anderson; Codependent No More, by Melodie Beattie; Woman Who Love to Much (this is about boundaries, and I think there is one for men) He's Scared/She's Scared by Steven Carter is about commitmentphobia; and an audio tape "Warming the Stone Child: Myths & Stories About Abandonment and the Unmothered Child" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, surprised me with its sweetness. Guys may find it corny to have a soft voice read a myth to you, but it grabbed me in the first minute about what rejected/neglected childhoods are like. And when she got to side 2, and talked about how it all culminates in adolescence; how we are 'like walking trees, trying to plant ourselves', it just sort of broke my heart to find myself there. I know I kept landing in swamps for far too long. Best of luck to you.
Actually, I did that myself. Windows 3.1, shaved down, kept solitaire. One HPII printer driver. A shaved down version of WordPerfect 5.1, with one font. All on one diskette. There was room for a couple of documents too, as most only took up 1 to 2 K. No tables or anything fancy.
This was early laptop days, when they were bulky and pricey, so I would make them for guys going on travel. All they needed was any old computer and they could boot, type and print their stuff out.
If you have the resource kits, both 3.1 and WP were 90 percent bloat.
They say terrorists can bid, because they will be totally anonymous - yeah right!
I know there are a lot of criminals that are considered dumb, like the kind of small theft guys that walk through the snow or use their driver's license, leaving easy identifaction of themselves. But do they really think real terrorists are that dumb? It almost sounds like a giant sting operation, hoping the bad guys will bet on themselves.
The worst was a health teacher who just sent the kids willy-nilly into a lab to do research on SEX! Unbelievable! Unsupervised! 10th graders were searching sex, protection, diseases, etc. Nothing but porn was popping up! (this was before filters) We were all just dumbfounded in the tech dept.
Best was a home-ec teacher who asked first the best approach to bring her class in for the first time. We explained about proper research, and that the Internet was just another tool for research, not a replacement for the library and other means. And also, that a teacher should do a few searches that they expect the students to do, so they can see for themselves what type of hits they'll be getting. So she came in with magazines and newspapers, and a paper typed up with good search words to use for the research, 3 links that she deemed worth looking into, and a requirement that one of their sources had to come from the library or one of the magazines she brought in. It was very well put together, and the students responded in good academic fashion, unlike the porn kids where it was utter chaos and embarassment.
FBI magic number is $5,000.00. If you can't claim at least that much in damages, they won't bother. Over 5K becomes a federal crime.
Really, when you work with large amounts of tech types - programmers, engineers, scientists, admins, similar personality types emerge. Most tech types are slightly to severely introverted, highly focused in one area, some are slightly (even severely) autistic, and would rather work with their hardware, software, germs, than deal with large groups of people. A good tech/programmer manager will recognize these personality traits and use them to their advantage to get the job done.
I once knew an engineer who was given a corner office where he worked with his door closed - always - he was a phantom - and yet produced some of the most advanced goods for whatever project he was working on. He did not know how to socialize at all. Management was unfazed, and gave him what he needed to produce - privacy.
I work with high school kids - here's a pair - one meticulous and efficient - the other very hyper and ADHD (thus this set him up to be bullied in school). ADHD got the all the little tasks and was the 'runner' for a lab we were putting in. (No, I wasn't giving him the crap jobs, his attention span didn't allow him to do anything that lasted more than a few minutes, and to burn all that extra steam, he was always sent to get things, or check things. Also, I did increase his tasks a few minutes at a time, to get him accustomed to it) Mr. meticulous was the organizer and planner. He was a little miffed at the end, when he felt he had accomplished more than the other. I reminded him that a good team takes all types, and if his team mate hadn't taken care of all the little things, he would not have had time to think about what he was doing, and get the job done on time.
It may seem funny to poke fun at tech guys and how they can't get a girl, but there is more to it than that. There are reasons for feeling good about hanging around in the lab versus the lounge. What keeps YOU there? Fear? Shyness? Anticipation of rejection? Slightly narcissistic? Limited social skills? Feel like you're on the outside looking in? Were you too, bullied in school? I think it is difficult to find a more diverse array of personalities, some of the quirkiest found, and also the kindest and most intelligent, than you will find in the tech field.
There isn't a license agreement sticker on the patterns are there?
Well, that would certainly cause some head-scratching among the many sewing circles out there. What's next, EULAs on the inside?
Companies will automate the process so their copyrights will last as long as possible. It will only be the occasional person who forgets to renew.
I don't know about that. Look how many domain names expire every day only to be scooped up by some unscrupulous party, and many of those are still active and in use daily.
This sort of strikes me as taking advantage of the too busy and ignorant out there, and by default many copyrights will default to the public. How many millions of dollars are out there just waiting to be claimed by the owner of some forgotten bank account?
"Okay... Trusted computing... Just running programs I trust... Kinda like not running an attachment just because it's there... Great...".....
.EXE file as an attachment. No radio button option to enable/disable this, just gone. You have to know how to hack the registry to put it back. We used little web cams in some of our elem schools, and the kids would make little clips of themselves singing or whatever, and mail them to their parents. Now, we have to rename the files to end in .DOC so the attachment will go through. I don't have the exact numbers, but I'm betting that their are more Word (*.DOC) virus files out there than any number of .EXE combined.
"But legally, can Microsoft only trust who they want?"
Exactly. I find it interesting that in the last year, the upgrades to Outlook have stripped out the ability to receive a
Let's see the MP** go after this one....
Sounds like that's left over from a mass mailer virus that was going around a couple of years back. It took everyone in the address book and added 'Hi' to the subject line so ppl would think it was from a friend. That's gone by though and very easily picked up from any virus detection package. Sounds like your net admin needs to get back in there and tweak the filter settings.
"I've been thinking about my attraction to 'lost arts', "
There is a show on Home and Garden (HGTV) called 'Modern Masters'. It is amazing that many of the crafts admired from centuries gone by are still handed down through generations. Hand carved moldings, glass art, welding and intricate fence making. Basket making using reeds gathered yourself. It's the kind of stuff, when you walk through a city or a historic district, and look at the stunning architecure and wonder, 'how the heck did they make this stuff back then?' It's nice to know some of these crafts are not dead after all.
My wonderful 8e6 X-Stop won't let me see the site:
http://www.magmafrog.com/misc/tripleplay.ppt
Just love how well these filters work!
We had one child domain here, and I'll never do that again! It was on a T1/384 frame, and it would lose site of the other AD servers quite frequently. The building would remain functional, but I could see the errors, sometimes not even being able to find it in network neighborhood, esp from Win 9.x machines. We finally got a new server, so I was able to move everything off of the old one and take the domain out. What a pain! And it has still taken a bite out of our AD and DNS. (our roles master just went south right after that - and I am now putting in a new, more powerful server to move the roles over) I have errors now that I didn't have before. Even though the network appears to be fully operational, and the end-user doesn't see what I see, certain DNS tests fail:
netdom reset domainname
The RPC server is unavailable
netdom reset 4.0servername
access denied
It especially kicked our last 2 4.0 servers off, killing the trust. These were non-essestional servers, and I was in the process of converting them anyway, so I could deal with this, but it was still a pain.
There is no reason why you shouldn't have full control over your own OU. And besides, even with a Child, it all shows up in the same AD anyway. You will see them, they will see you - so don't delude yourself into thinking that might give you any additional control.
That's what I was wondering. Why did he plead guilty? $$ probably. Getting sued or arrested for this type of stuff is becoming more like extortion lately. I would have liked to see this one play out in the courts. People simply cannot afford the battle, so they cave in. It's not against the law to make and sell bullets, so why the hell would it be to make a mod chip?
I work in a lot of elementary schools, where I am simply known as 'The Computer Lady'.
In my earlier days of WordPerfect 5.x, I was known as 'The Macro Queen'
Because of the sophistication of the technology and the expertise needed to install and manage such systems, Napster network operators can't help but be aware of the copyright infringement they facilitate. Indeed, each of the accused operators has seeded his services with hundreds -- and in some cases, thousands -- of copyrighted works.
.MP3 or .EXE and delete them all. I average around 1000 to 2000 MP3 every time I do this. I once had a teacher who took up 2GB of MP3s. Again, this is just nuts, and an extreme bully tactic at the wrong people and I hope the school stands behind their employees and students. (if they actually caught a student with a 1000 mp3 on their personal hard drive, I would have less of an issue)
This is just nuts. You don't need any "expertise" to install napster type programs and it is certainly not "sophisticated" by any stretch of the imagination. Doesn't the RIAA have any clue as to why they are so popular? Any 5yr old to 90yr old can do it. These programs manage themselves - haven't they got that yet? And why the network operators? Maybe I missed something here, they didn't get too technical. But I work in a school system, and our little kiddies are always doing this. They download some type of file sharing app, they all have home directories and they are unable to save to any local drives, so naturally all the music shows up on the server. I do not have time to watch the server to see this music show up. Periodically, around once or twice a year, I will sit at a server (I run 12 buildings) and search for things that end in
Open Source DRM - isn't that like the ultimate digital oxymoron?
Man, do I feel stupid after looking at that!