In these parts, they take donations of fine machines, say, 386SX or 486 with 4MB, Windows 3.1, and a 250 MB hard drive, hook up a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and display them at $150.
The good news is that I have a price reference for a nice deduction to use if I ever donate a junk PC.
No disrespect intended, but if your shop had data worth paying $3,000 on a consumer hard drive with no backup, there's more than hard drive manufacturing defects wrong there.
. . . order employees to do things that are dishonorable, illegal, and/or unethical, then leave them holding the bag.
"He didn't have to steal those plans like he was asked--in fact, it violates our code of ethics, and he would have promptly been helped, and his supervisor relieved." Yeah, and donkeys fly.
I haven't analyzed mine at all, let alone as rigorously as you have, but it seems like about half the spam in my Hotmail spamtrap account either comes from or points to web servers in China or Korea, and occasionally Russia.
Thanks--I didn't realize there had already been efforts by consorita in this direction. But I didn't think DBC would be so bad, given that (from my non-K-12 administrator point of view) the needs should be very similar between districts.
I don't know if anything exists now, but this is certainly something that could be developed or commissioned by a consortium of K-12 districts. Unlike higher education, K-12 doesn't have competition issues, so a cooperative project for a student administration system could displace closed-source software. The consortium could even generate revenue selling support, perhaps.
A-f*cking men. If they want to offer "value-added" port blocking, that's fine with me. But I pay for connectivity, period (which is why I use DSL rather than a cable modem)--if there's a port that I want blocked, I'll block it, thank you very much.
Heh. I send every one of those Symantec ads (with all the headers) to piracy@spa.org and piracy@symantec.com. Since they didn't have anything to do with them, the spammers must be illegally diverted or other infringing copies for those low prices they offer! And of course, Symantec would want to do something about that . . .:)
Sure. And just keep all the bugs that the other parts of it fixed. You can keep running Win2K SP2 to avoid agreeing to the "all your box are belong to us" EULA, too, but you miss out on any non-Trojan patches in SP3 and subsequent SPs, too.
I believe you are the one who needs to shut up. I never said the software was bundled with OSX. Apple does sell it separately. And those who bought it have a right to use it. Now go pack sand.
3. For all the sheep bleating on about Apple cease-&-desisting this etc. Apple has litigated to protect their trade dress, not this sort of material. After awhile repeating that same sort of foolishness just becomes trolling and unworthy of "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters"
So Apple threatening a dealer with the DMCA hammer over a patch to allow users to run software they purchased from Apple (iMovie) with their own hardware (non-Superdrive DVD players) is now just "to protect their trade dress"?
Apple may or may not threaten or sue over this, but I sure am quite tired of all the "sheep bleating" (to use your words) apologists that come out after Apple repeatedly breaks out the jackboots on its users.
They're no less evil than Microsoft--they just haven't refined their technique as well as Bill has.
Unfortunately, you appear to be trying to obscure the fact that your comment about piracy was either truly ignorant, a troll, or both--OSX is bundled with every new Mac, and the backup software is included. Thus, piracy is not an issue.
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The good news is that I have a price reference for a nice deduction to use if I ever donate a junk PC.
No disrespect intended, but if your shop had data worth paying $3,000 on a consumer hard drive with no backup, there's more than hard drive manufacturing defects wrong there.
Sadly enough, I have come to the same conclusions.
"He didn't have to steal those plans like he was asked--in fact, it violates our code of ethics, and he would have promptly been helped, and his supervisor relieved." Yeah, and donkeys fly.
That would be a good idea if printers came with full cartridges. But they don't.
No, if there are numbr of different, incompatible implementations, none of them will sell. This is a good thing.
Not sure, I haven't looked into it yet--it would at least require a BSD loopback driver, and probably compiling your own Gnu/Darwin.
Yeah. Quicktime is still free. It's just $29.99 to turn off the fscking nag screen.
Googling for "Linux loopback filesystem" yields this article.
Slashdot is vulnerable to first posts!
I haven't analyzed mine at all, let alone as rigorously as you have, but it seems like about half the spam in my Hotmail spamtrap account either comes from or points to web servers in China or Korea, and occasionally Russia.
Are you counting as "Asian in origin" those spams that originate from a throwaway American account, but point to a spamvertized site in red China?
Geez. Now we know the "N" really stands for Nazi!
Thanks--I didn't realize there had already been efforts by consorita in this direction. But I didn't think DBC would be so bad, given that (from my non-K-12 administrator point of view) the needs should be very similar between districts.
I don't know if anything exists now, but this is certainly something that could be developed or commissioned by a consortium of K-12 districts. Unlike higher education, K-12 doesn't have competition issues, so a cooperative project for a student administration system could displace closed-source software. The consortium could even generate revenue selling support, perhaps.
A-f*cking men. If they want to offer "value-added" port blocking, that's fine with me. But I pay for connectivity, period (which is why I use DSL rather than a cable modem)--if there's a port that I want blocked, I'll block it, thank you very much.
Heh. I send every one of those Symantec ads (with all the headers) to piracy@spa.org and piracy@symantec.com. Since they didn't have anything to do with them, the spammers must be illegally diverted or other infringing copies for those low prices they offer! And of course, Symantec would want to do something about that . . . :)
What a coincidence! So is the Pakistani High Command.
Scalable and mature.
Sure. And just keep all the bugs that the other parts of it fixed. You can keep running Win2K SP2 to avoid agreeing to the "all your box are belong to us" EULA, too, but you miss out on any non-Trojan patches in SP3 and subsequent SPs, too.
I believe you are the one who needs to shut up. I never said the software was bundled with OSX. Apple does sell it separately. And those who bought it have a right to use it. Now go pack sand.
So Apple threatening a dealer with the DMCA hammer over a patch to allow users to run software they purchased from Apple (iMovie) with their own hardware (non-Superdrive DVD players) is now just "to protect their trade dress"?
Apple may or may not threaten or sue over this, but I sure am quite tired of all the "sheep bleating" (to use your words) apologists that come out after Apple repeatedly breaks out the jackboots on its users.
They're no less evil than Microsoft--they just haven't refined their technique as well as Bill has.
Whoops--you're right. I was deceived by the built-in references to iDisk out of the box. Guess it's my turn to apologize now!
That's the beauty--you get a whole class A or B address space for what the other guy was charging for one lousy IP.
Unfortunately, you appear to be trying to obscure the fact that your comment about piracy was either truly ignorant, a troll, or both--OSX is bundled with every new Mac, and the backup software is included. Thus, piracy is not an issue.