San Jose California here. Our SBC Yahoo (formerly SBC formerly Pacbell) ISP even sells NAT boxes!
I think in reality ISPs do not want to provide tech support for home networks. The technical support is expensive. The extra use of internet bandwidth used by an extra computer behind a NAT does not cost the ISP very much.
If the ISP says you can not put multiple computers there then the do not have to provide technical support for it.
Two comments: 1) The highest paid executives usually run the less successfull companies. 2) Executive salaries are not set in a free market. The executive get together and vote each other raises in a sort of circle jerk.
I went to CNN. The front page had a link to this article:
Gates pledges better software security
Saturday, January 25, 2003 Posted: 6:40 AM EST (1140 GMT)
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates: "Microsoft has a responsibility to help."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is pledging to continue improvements to security in his company's products, part of a high-stakes campaign to convince large customers that Windows software is safe.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/01/25/micro so ft.security.ap/index.html
( I think his Billness is a little slow on the uptake here! )
The patch install is a hand job. Old filed get copied to a backup directory. Then the new files have to get copied into the right places all by hand. It takes 1-2 hours per machine.
Maybe MSFT will add an install script for this patch!
I have purchased SuSE distros and really liked them. I downloaded Red Hat 7.3. I am underwhelmed. I am glad I just downloaded it. I feel free to tinker with it. I am planning to blow it away and start fresh.
I may buy a Mandrake distro and try it out. I want a big KDE centric distro with ALSA sound. Mandrake fits the bill.
I like the idea of just boycotting the big 5. One problem is they have many brand names. We need a list all the label names used by the big 5.
The basic problem is the concentration of control of the record industry in a small number of companies. They make sure we hear a limited selection of music. We have a small number of companies controlling most of the music we hear on the radio.
The RIAA has blocked ways for small operations to broadcast music. Low power low budget radio stations are illegal. Internet radios stations now have to pay a tax to the RIAA. I am not joking.
Fortunately the boycott has already started. CD sales are already down %20! Keep up the good work.
Microsoft has targeted this market. For a while Maxtor had NAS products that used a Microsoft OS. I think is was a stripped down version of Windows 2000 server.
Maxtor lost too much money on it and dropped out of this market.
email address stays the same but the pop and smtp servers change. It sounds like they are planning to discontinue the old pop and smtp servers and move us to the new.
If you install their software etc, it changes the servers for you. Otherwise you have to set them by hand. They have a web page to tell you the names of the new servers.
I do not think it will change the settings of kmail for me!
Back when CDs cost more to make, and record stores had to carry all that inventory, $1 a song or $16 a CD was a reasonable price.
Now CDs (both stamped and burnable) are lot cheaper.
Look at all the CDs in a record store. If you buy one of those CDs, the odds are the artists will not get a cent! If they do get a piece of the action it will be #2 at the most.
Under the present system, we are getting ripped off. I want to see a way where the artists can get paid, the record stores can still exist and we who buy CDs are not getting ripped off.
Right now we are getting ripped off. It is time for some new business models that use some new technology to bring us lower prices.
Traditional CD music stores have to cary this huge inventory of many CDs. Most of this does not turn over very fast.
The technology exists so they do not have to carry all that inventory anymore. We could have stores that burn CDs on the spot for us and print the labels etc. The copyright holders would get cut in for a piece of the action when the CD gets burned at the store.
They could store much of the stock on a hard drive. The more obscure stuff could be downloaded from central servers.
If I want a mix instead of a particular CD, I could select the songs and artists on a workstation at the store. These workstations could have headphones so I could give a listen to tunes I am considering adding to a CD.
I coud design a cover and case graphics too. I think the public would go for this. It may terrify the record companies though.
Is this what they teach in MSCE school? Do they teach that you have to recompile the kernal to install a browser?
I would ask for my money back if I were you. Go get a real education.
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San Jose California here. Our SBC Yahoo (formerly SBC formerly Pacbell) ISP even sells NAT boxes!
I think in reality ISPs do not want to provide tech support for home networks. The technical support is expensive. The extra use of internet bandwidth used by an extra computer behind a NAT does not cost the ISP very much.
If the ISP says you can not put multiple computers there then the do not have to provide technical support for it.
Two comments:
1) The highest paid executives usually run the less successfull companies.
2) Executive salaries are not set in a free market. The executive get together and vote each other raises in a sort of circle jerk.
I went to CNN. The front page had a link to this article:
o so ft.security.ap/index.html
Gates pledges better software security
Saturday, January 25, 2003 Posted: 6:40 AM EST (1140 GMT)
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates: "Microsoft has a responsibility to help."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is pledging to continue improvements to security in his company's products, part of a high-stakes campaign to convince large customers that Windows software is safe.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/01/25/micr
( I think his Billness is a little slow on the uptake here! )
The patch install is a hand job. Old filed get copied to a backup directory. Then the new files have to get copied into the right places all by hand. It takes 1-2 hours per machine.
Maybe MSFT will add an install script for this patch!
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7418
I have purchased SuSE distros and really liked them. I downloaded Red Hat 7.3. I am underwhelmed. I am glad I just downloaded it. I feel free to tinker with it. I am planning to blow it away and start fresh.
I may buy a Mandrake distro and try it out. I want a big KDE centric distro with ALSA sound. Mandrake fits the bill.
I like the idea of just boycotting the big 5. One problem is they have many brand names. We need a list all the label names used by the big 5.
The basic problem is the concentration of control of the record industry in a small number of companies. They make sure we hear a limited selection of music. We have a small number of companies controlling most of the music we hear on the radio.
The RIAA has blocked ways for small operations to broadcast music. Low power low budget radio stations are illegal. Internet radios stations now have to pay a tax to the RIAA. I am not joking.
Fortunately the boycott has already started. CD sales are already down %20! Keep up the good work.
Microsoft has targeted this market. For a while Maxtor had NAS products that used a Microsoft OS. I think is was a stripped down version of Windows 2000 server. Maxtor lost too much money on it and dropped out of this market.
email address stays the same but the pop and smtp servers change. It sounds like they are planning to discontinue the old pop and smtp servers and move us to the new.
If you install their software etc, it changes the servers for you. Otherwise you have to set them by hand. They have a web page to tell you the names of the new servers.
I do not think it will change the settings of kmail for me!
Back when CDs cost more to make, and record stores had to carry all that inventory, $1 a song or $16 a CD was a reasonable price.
Now CDs (both stamped and burnable) are lot cheaper.
Look at all the CDs in a record store. If you buy one of those CDs, the odds are the artists will not get a cent! If they do get a piece of the action it will be #2 at the most.
Under the present system, we are getting ripped off. I want to see a way where the artists can get paid, the record stores can still exist and we who buy CDs are not getting ripped off.
Right now we are getting ripped off. It is time for some new business models that use some new technology to bring us lower prices.
Becuase these stores do not have to carry the inventory, the price should be lower.
Traditional CD music stores have to cary this huge inventory of many CDs. Most of this does not turn over very fast. The technology exists so they do not have to carry all that inventory anymore. We could have stores that burn CDs on the spot for us and print the labels etc. The copyright holders would get cut in for a piece of the action when the CD gets burned at the store. They could store much of the stock on a hard drive. The more obscure stuff could be downloaded from central servers. If I want a mix instead of a particular CD, I could select the songs and artists on a workstation at the store. These workstations could have headphones so I could give a listen to tunes I am considering adding to a CD. I coud design a cover and case graphics too. I think the public would go for this. It may terrify the record companies though.
Is this what they teach in MSCE school? Do they teach that you have to recompile the kernal to install a browser? I would ask for my money back if I were you. Go get a real education.
Walmart sells $200 PCs now. These would make a better PC than an Xbox.