Are you kidding me? You should hear some of my defense lawyer clients talking about their clients: they're pros -- like any trial lawyers -- at courtroom drama, because it's what they do for a living, like any other professional services.
Do you really think that Salesperson from AT&T flirting with you on the phone really wants to hook up with you?
I'm not sure why you're putting words in my mouth, but I donated before I even discussed my project (with my own money). I didn't expect anything in return, and I still don't.
One of my clients (a large-ish local retailer) asked me to help them create a portal so they could dish out targeted ads to a niche market under the guise of free content and coupons; kind of a Shoppers Club if you will.
I found a popular LAMP-based CMS/portal to use that would cover 80% of the requirements and since it was open source, I assumed I could customize the rest of it. Wrong. It was a pretty steep learning curve and since I had a big budget, I figured I could coax some support time out of some of the core developers or at least some of the senior users in the IRC channel. Wrong again. I couldn't make a go of it with anyone. My approach was very business-like, I even donated $150 to the project when I first started lurking and made it clear who I was, whom I represented, and what my project goals were. There was no official paid support setup, but I figured I'd be able to draw up some sort of agreement with them and get started relatively quickly, but no dice. Perhaps the issue is a lack of business sense or organization with a lot of open source projects: how many deals are lost (or never begun) because of it?
Specialised home theatre racks are not crucial to the running of the home theatre system. Rather, book racks are adequate to fulfil the needs
Umm what? They're speakers... they don't need racks, they're rectangles or a built-in stand at the most. So instead of "specialized home theatre racks," we now need to line the room with book shelves for our 12 expensive, power-sucking laptops, who's fans (if they're Toshiba Satellite Hoovers) are going to contribute a wash of white noise and heat into the room. Awesome. Sign me up.
We use the non-free edition on several of our customers' SBS 2003 servers and noticed that one of their updates had put the machine in a "AVG has been updated. Please reboot now" loop and Exchange's Information Store service wasn't running/couldn't start. Had to disable the scanner key in the registry so Exchange would start. Then had to download a utility to fix the update files to bring AVG back to a stable state.
Also had another issue where ICS was suddenly enabled and failing on the server; traced that back to AVG as well.
We're looking for another low-cost, low-bloat anti-malware solution to migrate our clients to once their licenses expire.
Except in Canada, where Bell has to play nice and share their copper with the other kids. In my city, there's no less than 18 DSL providers I can pick and choose from: http://canadianisp.ca/
I'm in a similar situation with our small shop IT business and would be very much interested in swapping notes with you. My email is gravyface at mail with a g prepended.com.
I've always looked towards the US as Canada's big brother -- the glamorous one that's great at sports, has a better salary, but a bit arrogant too. However, over the last eight years, it's like finding out your older brother has a gambling problem, cheats on his girlfriend, and bullies kids around at school.
Now I know things aren't going to change overnight, but you've made a huge step in the right direction, America, and it's good to see you come around.
Set your recording device to be "wav" or "what I hear" or something similar in your soundcard's mixer's "recording" view. Grab Audacity, hit record, then hit play on *insert_audio_source_here* No signal loss from using the physical outputs.
I'm finding less and less people pay attention to their Facebook. Not just with my tech friends (who reluctantly added themselves to the social cesspool to shut people up in the first place), but with alot of my wife's friends, my clients (traffic is way down on the usage reports), my non-technical friends, etc.
A year or so ago, a new friend request was something exciting, a chance to hook up with an old friend, but after you've been on it a while, you remember why you stopped hanging out with Larry "Loose Cannon" McKraken in high school.
With all the advertising and event spam, I find myself tuning it out completely. Anyone I really want to talk to already has my email or IM and can chat with me anytime.
But could you not have a plugin/filter that would look for IFRAME src strings that != *.currentdomain.com? I'm sure there's more of a pattern or signature here that could be parsed/matched (i.e. whatever the offending CSS would be and if it applies to said IFRAME element).
Certainly there's legitimate uses for hidden IFRAMES that point to other domains -- and I'm grossly generalizing here in my example -- but if we can accept heuristic analysis as the de facto standard for telling us whether our email is spam or not, surely there's enough incriminating evidence available to create an effective rule against exploits such as Clickjacking?
How 'bout some movies get released first?
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Bought my Blu-Ray player a few weeks ago and was all pumped to pick up a copy of Saving Private Ryan and... nope. Well, I'll just go to Blockbuster and rent something at least... nadda. There was all of 12 movies available, none of them worth renting let alone purchasing. We settled on Fantastic Four I and II. God awful movies. Shamefully bad. I'm surprised they're not churning out movies faster than this; there's barely any titles worth getting that have been released yet.
I haven't RTFM, but having worked with paranoid schizophrenics and Alzheimer's sufferers in the past, I would bet that some of these "pranksters" may actually be mentally ill; I hope our public servants are at least screening these individuals before humiliating them on YouTube.
At the end of the day, with so many excellent relational databases available at zero or little cost, choosing MySQL as your database speaks poorly of you. Just about any database is better than MySQL.
That's a bit harsh and unrealistic.
In Real Life (tm), you don't always have that choice: sometimes you take what's given to you and roll with it, sometimes you have to use what you know best to get the job done.
I use both nowadays: I do feel more comfortable with MySQL (mainly the tools, auth. mechanisms) because for many years, it was the only option available: host didn't provide Postgres support, xyz application didn't support it, or I personally couldn't justify the risk/learning curve for a tight project.
Postgres may be "superior" to MySQL, but that doesn't mean it's the right choice all the time.
Having traveled to Cuba before, I certainly hope all that's "good" about Western culture stays out. Walking the streets of Havana, not seeing a 7-11, Pizza Hut, or IHOP? Priceless...
TFA is talking about the popularity of gmail accounts for sending spam now that Google's CAPTCHA has been cracked. This has nothing to do with how effective your gmail is filtered.
Take the cover off, put a fan on it. You'll see the difference. On that note, D-Link, Linksys, etc. are consumer crap -- get a Snapgear or build your own with BSD.
Perhaps your environment is unique, but I've rarely seen an organization capable of moving people around at will, simply because not everyone has the same skill sets. Even within the Web development paradigm, there's always the "SQL guy", the "CSS guy", heck, even the "regex guy" who's been writing Perl since he was a kid. making that guy use Eclipse instead of vim and puTTY seems counterproductive to me, even if you happened to have someone with those skills on each team.
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Now, before you leave, and see how it works for you. Disclaimer: have not tried it myself; googled it.
http://emailweb.us/
Are you kidding me? You should hear some of my defense lawyer clients talking about their clients: they're pros -- like any trial lawyers -- at courtroom drama, because it's what they do for a living, like any other professional services.
Do you really think that Salesperson from AT&T flirting with you on the phone really wants to hook up with you?
I'm not sure why you're putting words in my mouth, but I donated before I even discussed my project (with my own money). I didn't expect anything in return, and I still don't.
One of my clients (a large-ish local retailer) asked me to help them create a portal so they could dish out targeted ads to a niche market under the guise of free content and coupons; kind of a Shoppers Club if you will.
I found a popular LAMP-based CMS/portal to use that would cover 80% of the requirements and since it was open source, I assumed I could customize the rest of it. Wrong. It was a pretty steep learning curve and since I had a big budget, I figured I could coax some support time out of some of the core developers or at least some of the senior users in the IRC channel. Wrong again. I couldn't make a go of it with anyone. My approach was very business-like, I even donated $150 to the project when I first started lurking and made it clear who I was, whom I represented, and what my project goals were. There was no official paid support setup, but I figured I'd be able to draw up some sort of agreement with them and get started relatively quickly, but no dice.
Perhaps the issue is a lack of business sense or organization with a lot of open source projects: how many deals are lost (or never begun) because of it?
Umm what? They're speakers... they don't need racks, they're rectangles or a built-in stand at the most. So instead of "specialized home theatre racks," we now need to line the room with book shelves for our 12 expensive, power-sucking laptops, who's fans (if they're Toshiba Satellite Hoovers) are going to contribute a wash of white noise and heat into the room. Awesome. Sign me up.
We use the non-free edition on several of our customers' SBS 2003 servers and noticed that one of their updates had put the machine in a "AVG has been updated. Please reboot now" loop and Exchange's Information Store service wasn't running/couldn't start. Had to disable the scanner key in the registry so Exchange would start. Then had to download a utility to fix the update files to bring AVG back to a stable state.
Also had another issue where ICS was suddenly enabled and failing on the server; traced that back to AVG as well.
We're looking for another low-cost, low-bloat anti-malware solution to migrate our clients to once their licenses expire.
Except in Canada, where Bell has to play nice and share their copper with the other kids. In my city, there's no less than 18 DSL providers I can pick and choose from:
http://canadianisp.ca/
I'm in a similar situation with our small shop IT business and would be very much interested in swapping notes with you. My email is gravyface at mail with a g prepended .com.
I've always looked towards the US as Canada's big brother -- the glamorous one that's great at sports, has a better salary, but a bit arrogant too. However, over the last eight years, it's like finding out your older brother has a gambling problem, cheats on his girlfriend, and bullies kids around at school.
Now I know things aren't going to change overnight, but you've made a huge step in the right direction, America, and it's good to see you come around.
Are any of the content providers actually using this? I've been recording like this for years and have never encountered SAP.
Set your recording device to be "wav" or "what I hear" or something similar in your soundcard's mixer's "recording" view. Grab Audacity, hit record, then hit play on *insert_audio_source_here* No signal loss from using the physical outputs.
If they tacked on a year to the product name, they'd be bound to that date and would never hear the end of it when it's late.
I'm finding less and less people pay attention to their Facebook. Not just with my tech friends (who reluctantly added themselves to the social cesspool to shut people up in the first place), but with alot of my wife's friends, my clients (traffic is way down on the usage reports), my non-technical friends, etc.
A year or so ago, a new friend request was something exciting, a chance to hook up with an old friend, but after you've been on it a while, you remember why you stopped hanging out with Larry "Loose Cannon" McKraken in high school.
With all the advertising and event spam, I find myself tuning it out completely. Anyone I really want to talk to already has my email or IM and can chat with me anytime.
But could you not have a plugin/filter that would look for IFRAME src strings that != *.currentdomain.com? I'm sure there's more of a pattern or signature here that could be parsed/matched (i.e. whatever the offending CSS would be and if it applies to said IFRAME element).
Certainly there's legitimate uses for hidden IFRAMES that point to other domains -- and I'm grossly generalizing here in my example -- but if we can accept heuristic analysis as the de facto standard for telling us whether our email is spam or not, surely there's enough incriminating evidence available to create an effective rule against exploits such as Clickjacking?
More info here; haven't tried it myself though:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Outlook_Web_Access
Bought my Blu-Ray player a few weeks ago and was all pumped to pick up a copy of Saving Private Ryan and... nope. Well, I'll just go to Blockbuster and rent something at least... nadda. There was all of 12 movies available, none of them worth renting let alone purchasing. We settled on Fantastic Four I and II. God awful movies. Shamefully bad. I'm surprised they're not churning out movies faster than this; there's barely any titles worth getting that have been released yet.
It sounds expensive, but if there's 10 employees, that VC funding could last years.
Google set a precedent for perks, so it's only natural that companies are going to try to repeat that success for recruiting purposes alone.
Oops. "RTFA"... or RTFM for that matter.
I haven't RTFM, but having worked with paranoid schizophrenics and Alzheimer's sufferers in the past, I would bet that some of these "pranksters" may actually be mentally ill; I hope our public servants are at least screening these individuals before humiliating them on YouTube.
If you're running Win9x/2000, you can't upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer.
That's a bit harsh and unrealistic.
In Real Life (tm), you don't always have that choice: sometimes you take what's given to you and roll with it, sometimes you have to use what you know best to get the job done.
I use both nowadays: I do feel more comfortable with MySQL (mainly the tools, auth. mechanisms) because for many years, it was the only option available: host didn't provide Postgres support, xyz application didn't support it, or I personally couldn't justify the risk/learning curve for a tight project.
Postgres may be "superior" to MySQL, but that doesn't mean it's the right choice all the time.
Having traveled to Cuba before, I certainly hope all that's "good" about Western culture stays out. Walking the streets of Havana, not seeing a 7-11, Pizza Hut, or IHOP? Priceless...
TFA is talking about the popularity of gmail accounts for sending spam now that Google's CAPTCHA has been cracked. This has nothing to do with how effective your gmail is filtered.
Take the cover off, put a fan on it. You'll see the difference. On that note, D-Link, Linksys, etc. are consumer crap -- get a Snapgear or build your own with BSD.
Perhaps your environment is unique, but I've rarely seen an organization capable of moving people around at will, simply because not everyone has the same skill sets. Even within the Web development paradigm, there's always the "SQL guy", the "CSS guy", heck, even the "regex guy" who's been writing Perl since he was a kid. making that guy use Eclipse instead of vim and puTTY seems counterproductive to me, even if you happened to have someone with those skills on each team.