I doubt too many closed-source software houses have the latter. How are volunteer coders (i.e. non-employees) going to submit bugfixes if they don't have access to the source?
Now they're alienating an entire new generation of young people.
I can't help but feel that you're being a little over-optimistic. Even among the minority of folks who are informed enough to associate this kind of action with the major film studios themselves, there are far fewer who will be willing to take a principled stand against giving them money through box office or DVD sales. The problem with the MPAA is that they know they can get away with treating their customers like shit because they will keep coming back regardless.
It doesn't look quite the same if you take the five day view. SCO were doing pretty badly until last week and then their stock price almost doubled. Maybe it was an April fool gone wrong.
Don't laught -- that's happening in the UK at the moment. Not a day seems to go by without some story in the news about the health risks posed by obesity and government plans to tackle the problem. Take a look at the BBC news site for many examples.
You're absolutely right. One of the first jobs I was given when I joined my current employer was to write a technical paper explaining why we should migrate from Lotus Notes to Exchange. My remit was not to do any analysis, but to provide justification for the decision our regional president had already made.
I made a lot of use of reports from the Giga and Meta groups, coincidentally sponsored by Microsoft. In the end I had a fairly respectable looking document with lots of plausible-looking quotes that the non-technical management could use to beat up the dissenting IT managers.
Five years on I still feel dirty. And no, before you ask, that's not because I think Notes was the better product.
May 12th: Microsoft shows an improved E3 lineup that includes previews of Doom 3 and Halo 2. Sony looks strong with Eye-Toy, Gran Turismo 4, a strong online presence, and the surprise announcement of PSP. Nintendo looks dazed as Shigeru Miyamoto demonstrates a new multiplayer version of Pac-Man and most of the big games for GameCube are rehashes of past hits
Phew! Good thing most of the titles announced for the other consoles weren't just rehashes of past hits!
Assuming your head has grown back now, you'll probably want to keep it away from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: you'd be in for a series of explosions that would make your head sound like a Gatling gun.
I do wonder sometimes if there was a proofreader for that book and, if so, how many years of rehabilitation he required.
I don't know about Postfix, but with qmail it's pretty easy to set it up as a relay. All you have to do is make sure the domains for which it relays are listed in the "smtproutes" config file, along with the IP address of the destination server. Also make sure that the domains do not appear in the "locals" file. Apart from that, you can just do a standard installation as shown in Life With qmail
That's precisely what I do at multiple sites. All Internet email is handled by a linux box in the DMZ running qmail, spamassassin and qmail-scanner and then sent through the firewall to the IMS on an Exchange server on the internal network. So far this has stopped any security problems with Exchange, blocked spam and stripped away executable attachments.
Exchange servers have their good points (and some really horrible ones! I've just lost half a week to rooting out major directory corruption in a large 5.5 organisation.) but I'd never dream of connecting one directly to the Internet.
Thanks, but that was the SUS I mentioned as being unsuitable. The lack of NT 4.0 support makes it a non-starter. I'm evaluating LANGuard right now and it seems like a better all-round solution.
That's a good solution for home or small office users, but it doesn't scale that well for larger sites. As soon as you have a more than a few dozen workstations, having each one pull down the updates from the Internet causes an unacceptable amount of network traffic (maybe it's OK in the US where bandwidth is cheap, but here in Europe out Internet pipes tend to be a bit more frugal). Also, no sane person wants to use this solution for servers, where applying untested updates can have catastrophic consequences.
The only manageable solution I've found is using software distribution apps or dedicated patch management tools like LANGuard. SUS is a stab in the right direction, but its lack of support for NT 4.0 makes it a non-option for most of the sites I look after.
One former colleague of mine, while he could be a nice guy sometimes, was often overly anal and aggressive about minor details. His main bugbear was people misspelling his first name, which was "Phillip"; woe betide anyone who only used one "L" (or even worse, called him "Phil"). On more than one occassion I witnessed him lodge formal complaints with managers when one of their staff denied him his L RDA.
Obviously this obsession became something of an office joke, and led to a few pranks. One colleague made up a name plaque for him that just read "twolls" and another, in a move I can only describe as childish, put an anchovy on the CPU heat sink in his PC.
I've never admitted my contribution to the campaign of mischief until now, but I feel the time has come to unburden my conscience. I waited until he was out of the office one day and added a new rule to the autocorrect function of Word that changed any instance of "Phillip" to "Philip". He was a mainframe admin, and his Office skills were not especially well-rounded. I don't think he ever figured out what was wrong or how to fix it.
Anyway, Phil, if you're reading this, it was me. Whoever I may be.
...so long as basic document features were used...
You threw that in pretty casually without really explaining what you meant by it. Does this mean that there are options that the creator of a document can use that will break this back compatability? If they do use these features, does this mean that the only option for a recipient is to buy an Office upgrade?
I really don't know the answer to these questions, so if there is a simple answer I'd love to know it.
But that's actually the same thing. It's a little known secret that all foreign languages are really just English spelled/pronounced wrong or encoded in a different character set. It's just one of the things that they don't want you to know.
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You could make confusing software and then charge people to help them understand it...
I think you'll find that Microsoft have already patented that business model.
Could be worse. :)
Name a major software house who doesn't have this
I doubt too many closed-source software houses have the latter. How are volunteer coders (i.e. non-employees) going to submit bugfixes if they don't have access to the source?
IIRC, the literal meaning is "a pregant camel". That one doesn't come up too often, though.
Now they're alienating an entire new generation of young people.
I can't help but feel that you're being a little over-optimistic. Even among the minority of folks who are informed enough to associate this kind of action with the major film studios themselves, there are far fewer who will be willing to take a principled stand against giving them money through box office or DVD sales. The problem with the MPAA is that they know they can get away with treating their customers like shit because they will keep coming back regardless.
It doesn't look quite the same if you take the five day view. SCO were doing pretty badly until last week and then their stock price almost doubled. Maybe it was an April fool gone wrong.
Don't laught -- that's happening in the UK at the moment. Not a day seems to go by without some story in the news about the health risks posed by obesity and government plans to tackle the problem. Take a look at the BBC news site for many examples.
You're absolutely right. One of the first jobs I was given when I joined my current employer was to write a technical paper explaining why we should migrate from Lotus Notes to Exchange. My remit was not to do any analysis, but to provide justification for the decision our regional president had already made.
I made a lot of use of reports from the Giga and Meta groups, coincidentally sponsored by Microsoft. In the end I had a fairly respectable looking document with lots of plausible-looking quotes that the non-technical management could use to beat up the dissenting IT managers.
Five years on I still feel dirty. And no, before you ask, that's not because I think Notes was the better product.
The soon-to-be-released MyDundee worm will take care of 'em SCO bastards in a hurry.
Will it fill up their hard drives with deep fried pizza and heroin? Oh, right, the other Dundee...
That would be the TV series, not a film.
Vice City is geared for adults, but who's picturing numerous women playing it?
Well, I am now. Want to know what they're wearing?
Assuming your head has grown back now, you'll probably want to keep it away from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: you'd be in for a series of explosions that would make your head sound like a Gatling gun.
I do wonder sometimes if there was a proofreader for that book and, if so, how many years of rehabilitation he required.
This is why we need a "funny" metamod option for all moderations: sometimes the moderation is funnier than the post.
I don't know about Postfix, but with qmail it's pretty easy to set it up as a relay. All you have to do is make sure the domains for which it relays are listed in the "smtproutes" config file, along with the IP address of the destination server. Also make sure that the domains do not appear in the "locals" file. Apart from that, you can just do a standard installation as shown in Life With qmail
That's precisely what I do at multiple sites. All Internet email is handled by a linux box in the DMZ running qmail, spamassassin and qmail-scanner and then sent through the firewall to the IMS on an Exchange server on the internal network. So far this has stopped any security problems with Exchange, blocked spam and stripped away executable attachments.
Exchange servers have their good points (and some really horrible ones! I've just lost half a week to rooting out major directory corruption in a large 5.5 organisation.) but I'd never dream of connecting one directly to the Internet.
Thanks, but that was the SUS I mentioned as being unsuitable. The lack of NT 4.0 support makes it a non-starter. I'm evaluating LANGuard right now and it seems like a better all-round solution.
That's a good solution for home or small office users, but it doesn't scale that well for larger sites. As soon as you have a more than a few dozen workstations, having each one pull down the updates from the Internet causes an unacceptable amount of network traffic (maybe it's OK in the US where bandwidth is cheap, but here in Europe out Internet pipes tend to be a bit more frugal). Also, no sane person wants to use this solution for servers, where applying untested updates can have catastrophic consequences.
The only manageable solution I've found is using software distribution apps or dedicated patch management tools like LANGuard. SUS is a stab in the right direction, but its lack of support for NT 4.0 makes it a non-option for most of the sites I look after.
One former colleague of mine, while he could be a nice guy sometimes, was often overly anal and aggressive about minor details. His main bugbear was people misspelling his first name, which was "Phillip"; woe betide anyone who only used one "L" (or even worse, called him "Phil"). On more than one occassion I witnessed him lodge formal complaints with managers when one of their staff denied him his L RDA.
Obviously this obsession became something of an office joke, and led to a few pranks. One colleague made up a name plaque for him that just read "twolls" and another, in a move I can only describe as childish, put an anchovy on the CPU heat sink in his PC.
I've never admitted my contribution to the campaign of mischief until now, but I feel the time has come to unburden my conscience. I waited until he was out of the office one day and added a new rule to the autocorrect function of Word that changed any instance of "Phillip" to "Philip". He was a mainframe admin, and his Office skills were not especially well-rounded. I don't think he ever figured out what was wrong or how to fix it.
Anyway, Phil, if you're reading this, it was me. Whoever I may be.
Yeah, but the GeForce FX works better with emacs! Let's see how many flamewars we can run in parallel.
SCO obviously felt so strongly about this that they got started a few days early! They're good folks, always doing their best for the community.
You threw that in pretty casually without really explaining what you meant by it. Does this mean that there are options that the creator of a document can use that will break this back compatability? If they do use these features, does this mean that the only option for a recipient is to buy an Office upgrade?
I really don't know the answer to these questions, so if there is a simple answer I'd love to know it.
Thus SCO will face a furry similiar to the slashdot effect but with lawsuits.
So, erm, we're going to mass yiff them into submission? That sounds messy!
(Sorry -- I don't normally mock typos, but this amused me).
But that's actually the same thing. It's a little known secret that all foreign languages are really just English spelled/pronounced wrong or encoded in a different character set. It's just one of the things that they don't want you to know.
If I meet a girl who plays video games, it had better be because she likes it, not just so she can get in my pants.
Yeah, you tell 'em! I hate it when girls try to get into my pants! How dare they think of me as a sex object!