... which is "Why is FF 2.0 so unstable on my Intel iMac?" - I don't seem to be able to surf for more than about 10 mins before the browser enters into a spinning rainbow wheel state and I have to force quit the app and restart it.
... if you just opened up port 25 on EVERY machine and put some dummy SMTP recieve code behind it that did nothing else other than accept mail and then discard it, could we make it 500 million times harded for spammers to find an active and working open relay?
People from Microsoft will move to other tech companies, people from other tech companies will move to Microsoft. Microsoft has hundreds of GMs, this guy is only one man, they still have hundreds of GMs.
Wasn't it some "anonymous developer" who was originally quoted? I can't see how turning off copies of Windows would ever have been in Microsoft's best interests.As others have said, even a pirated copy of Windows is a working entry point into the rest of the ecosystem.
All a new commer has to do is to talk Apple's customers into give up their iPods and around $2bn of purchased content, after that they can sell on the basis of better devices and new sales/subscription models.
... it is generally the result of a badly written 3rd party device driver, and the inability of the OS to protect itself from that driver. Have Novell delivered a major breakthrough here (as the article suggests) or the beginnings of a major headache?
I know there will be replies about how the architechure of Linux protects us from some of the risk, but in reality 3rd parties will circumvent any device driver model in an effort to make their device perform optmally, even at the expense of the wider platform.
It is not clear if they got $15m in savings by moving from Windows, another flavor of *nix, or some old paper based system. It would really help if the article had some more substantive detail.
BTW, I'm personally $7m better off than I would be if I'd have bought myself a Bombadier jet. Now, if I could just find that $7m I'd be able to do something fun with it.
... and I don't plan on subscribing again until I can see evidence that they have fixed this. Like many people at the moment I have expressed my discontent in the only manner that Blizzard will hear and voted with my check book.
I know it is tough for Blizzard, but as a customer I have been the one paying the price for that so far, from now on that cost is Blizzards again. At least for the time being.
... is the need for a license to run a mail server in a personal environment. Don't most ISPs in the western world have similar government imposed retention and intrusion legislation that they have to abide by? I see old emails delivered to courts from ISPs on a regular basis in the press US and European press.
Maybe somebody could clarify US and UK law for me.
This is hardly a news story.
Tomorrow: 100% of people on my front porch stub their toe at 10:19am on Friday morning. Porch declared a national disaster zone, FEMA are organizing evacuation flights.
... has become a thin mask for clumsy corporate activity. I'm hoping that the members step forwards with an end to end strategy that can be adopted by governments, at the moment it is hard to work out what a government would do with these good intentions.
... the TSAs policy on these things. I can't see them allowing the average traveller to carry them on board. I guess I'll be checking my laptop from now on?
... is that Microsoft's primary crime in this case is that it is not a European company. The company can publish whatever it wants, but in the end the commission will do whatever it believes is right for European business. At the end of the day Microsoft will still not be one of those European companies and will pay a price for it.
Novell could have dealt with all of this in a much more positive manner three years ago when they bought SUSE. If they'd picked up their corporate HQ and moved it from Utah to Germany, instead of Boston then they would have created a landscape of Europe vs. US in the computing industry, but alas they were too shortsighted, instead they pulled the guts out of one of Europe's key competitive assets.
Now the commission have to intervene and give the Europeans a position back in the industry again. This isn't a technical issue, it is pure politics, it is about protecting jobs, income, welfare and everything else that a government has to do for its constituents. I'm sometimes not sure Microsoft gets that, they're busy fighting a technical battle while the commission is fighting a political one.
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... which is "Why is FF 2.0 so unstable on my Intel iMac?" - I don't seem to be able to surf for more than about 10 mins before the browser enters into a spinning rainbow wheel state and I have to force quit the app and restart it.
... if you just opened up port 25 on EVERY machine and put some dummy SMTP recieve code behind it that did nothing else other than accept mail and then discard it, could we make it 500 million times harded for spammers to find an active and working open relay?
People from Microsoft will move to other tech companies, people from other tech companies will move to Microsoft. Microsoft has hundreds of GMs, this guy is only one man, they still have hundreds of GMs.
Wasn't it some "anonymous developer" who was originally quoted? I can't see how turning off copies of Windows would ever have been in Microsoft's best interests.As others have said, even a pirated copy of Windows is a working entry point into the rest of the ecosystem.
http://www.ericsson.com/mobilityworld/sub/articles /success_stories/parking_wap_sms
I cut an paste a little too quickly in my last post!
http://www.usj.com.my/usjXpress/details.php3?table =usjXpress&ID=256
I travel there on business from time to time, folks that I work with there have been doing something like this using SMS for a while now.
It is good to see the US catching up.
All a new commer has to do is to talk Apple's customers into give up their iPods and around $2bn of purchased content, after that they can sell on the basis of better devices and new sales/subscription models.
It was more a comment on journalistic style than political bias, but you knew that already...
Sometimes it is hard to tell if this is Slashdot or Fox News.
... nobody in their right mind would listen to Placido Domingo.
... it is generally the result of a badly written 3rd party device driver, and the inability of the OS to protect itself from that driver. Have Novell delivered a major breakthrough here (as the article suggests) or the beginnings of a major headache?
I know there will be replies about how the architechure of Linux protects us from some of the risk, but in reality 3rd parties will circumvent any device driver model in an effort to make their device perform optmally, even at the expense of the wider platform.
You would need to know more than those three words to be able to mentally evaluate what the saving meant.
It is not clear if they got $15m in savings by moving from Windows, another flavor of *nix, or some old paper based system. It would really help if the article had some more substantive detail. BTW, I'm personally $7m better off than I would be if I'd have bought myself a Bombadier jet. Now, if I could just find that $7m I'd be able to do something fun with it.
... I'm not sure that the markets are as worried about this as Slashdot readers are.
The proposal would leave the door open for [snip] parents to track their children under an amendment offered by Rep. Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford.
Put the chips in the kids! All this legislation appears to do is push the issue onto the next generation, it does not really protect anybody.
... and I don't plan on subscribing again until I can see evidence that they have fixed this. Like many people at the moment I have expressed my discontent in the only manner that Blizzard will hear and voted with my check book.
I know it is tough for Blizzard, but as a customer I have been the one paying the price for that so far, from now on that cost is Blizzards again. At least for the time being.
... is the need for a license to run a mail server in a personal environment. Don't most ISPs in the western world have similar government imposed retention and intrusion legislation that they have to abide by? I see old emails delivered to courts from ISPs on a regular basis in the press US and European press.
Maybe somebody could clarify US and UK law for me.
This is hardly a news story. Tomorrow: 100% of people on my front porch stub their toe at 10:19am on Friday morning. Porch declared a national disaster zone, FEMA are organizing evacuation flights.
... has become a thin mask for clumsy corporate activity. I'm hoping that the members step forwards with an end to end strategy that can be adopted by governments, at the moment it is hard to work out what a government would do with these good intentions.
... the TSAs policy on these things. I can't see them allowing the average traveller to carry them on board. I guess I'll be checking my laptop from now on?
Something happened, he is not sure what, and now nobody can replicate it.
Stuff that matters huh?
... multicast and proxy technology that we have spent the last 10+ years working on to solve this problem?
... is that Microsoft's primary crime in this case is that it is not a European company. The company can publish whatever it wants, but in the end the commission will do whatever it believes is right for European business. At the end of the day Microsoft will still not be one of those European companies and will pay a price for it.
Novell could have dealt with all of this in a much more positive manner three years ago when they bought SUSE. If they'd picked up their corporate HQ and moved it from Utah to Germany, instead of Boston then they would have created a landscape of Europe vs. US in the computing industry, but alas they were too shortsighted, instead they pulled the guts out of one of Europe's key competitive assets.
Now the commission have to intervene and give the Europeans a position back in the industry again. This isn't a technical issue, it is pure politics, it is about protecting jobs, income, welfare and everything else that a government has to do for its constituents. I'm sometimes not sure Microsoft gets that, they're busy fighting a technical battle while the commission is fighting a political one.
Except the special computer that the IRS use for my taxes is an Altair.
For the EU this is an issue of policy, not technology. It is an issue of buiness, local software companies and European economic development.