How secure is secure enough? From what I can see in almost every office I've been in, finding a way to steal data (not necessarily digital format) is relatively easy. So should we really expect "perfect" security from WiFi networks?
Clearly unencrypted wireless is out, WEP too. But how about WPA? I personally feel that running VPN over WiFi would be best, but for many small businesses, the added complexity is hard to justify.
Let me put this another way, what do/.'s use at home?
except eMule (or I guess the protocol it runs) can't share until it has a complete segment - typically 8Mb. With BT, each peer starts sharing the load a LOT earlier which makes it great for new releases where there aren't many seeds.
Generally, formatting and graphics help communication. Fonts, graphics, layout, whatever. Ever try to read a man-page and wish that there was some sensible formatting and highlighting? Would Slashdot be useable if it was pure text only? How about the formatting of your newspaper or textbook?
Several years ago there were legitimate worries about client support for HTML email. There were also worries about viruses. For me at least, those days are long gone.
The biggest problem is people abusing HTML email w/a multitude of fonts/graphics/etc - but that's a people problem, not a technology one.
In Canada, and probably the US, stores, cabs, offices, etc. are allowed to play broadcast radio stations in their facilities for free (i.e. w/o paying RRIA). But if a store pops a few CDs into a changer, then it has to pay for the privelege of using copywrited music to help sell stuff. In theory it makes sense; however, I question the ability of CRIA (Canada) or RRIA to properly distribute the license fees to match the artists whose music is actually played.
MS doesn't package it in XP now, does it? From the machines I've seen, I _think_ Dell/IBM/HP choose to install a JRE for their customers. Smaller whitebox shops are on their own I guess.
More than making them dependent on "free" food, one of the biggest problems with sending food (or money that is earmarked specifically for food*) is that it distorts the market prices in those areas. In other words, the local farmers can not compete with "free" and they are forced to shut their farms and move on to other ways to make a living. Given the relatively underdeveloped economies, this is a real problem because there aren't that many other ways to earn a living. Over the long term, this hurts their economies greatly.
Note that disasters are a different situation entirely.
* it's a common practice in Canada, and probably most other developed countries, for national (government) level donations of cash to come with stipulations that the donation must be used to buy Canadian (or [insert donating country name here]) goods. It makes everyone feel good about helping other countries without "costing" quite as much.
the other major news sites online and offline will all be talking about Hitachi's great technology to store 30 000 mp3's on the next ipod mini. A few bucks of marketing VERY well spent.
Double points for doing this with something so technical that most/.'s, never mind the general public, wouldn't be able to understand from a generic press release.
and not a single wise crack about the parent post? I think we've established one fact about/. -- we unanimously love Transformers. =)
Looking at that list of series' almost makes me feel ashamed that I've only watched G1! Worse still, it makes me feel real old, finding out that the movie is 20 years old!!
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Yet you take the effort to make a post? =)
One day a year w/o Slashdot... I've gotten used to it. At least the TCP/IP evil bit hasn't shown up today...
It's nice to have been the first Network OS for PC's. The first guys to implement networks were invariably the biggest companies since they had the most to gain and the most resources to invest in a computer network. By default, they installed Netware. Fast forward 15-20 years and the bulk of these guys are still on Novell for authentication/directory services and probably file and print. Plus, since NDS works with anything, on many different platforms, there has been little reason for big co's to drop Novell - authentication to MS servers has been seemless for a long time.
Further, Novell is currently profitable and has a fat bank account. I think they'll have enough cash flow to finish any transition to Linux. With their brand name and history, they'll easily make SUSE the #2 Linux distro around (with a real shot at #1).
IMHO, what Novell could really use right now is a some really good integration of WINE into SUSE so that their new Server + Workstation bundles actually have a chance of being useful to the average company that has the odd Windows app that they need to run the business.
I think the general idea is to get good links with appropriate anchor text (words in the link) from other sites (e.g. spamming blogs) for stuff you might buy, say, "Nikon SLR Digital" but include your ebay affiliate code in the link.
I've never looked into the ebay affiliate program, but I guess it must be relatively profitable since a lot of people buy Google Adwords (at a minimum cost of 5c per click!) for various shopping items.
A lot of places have very high license fees for the right to own a personal vehicle, in the order of thousands of dollars per year. This is for registration or licensing fees, NOT insurance. Also, it is quite common for gas to cost a lot more than it does in North America.
So, it makes sense that if you are spending a lot of money on fees and other costs, you have the incentive to upgrade vehicles more frequently because the capital cost of a new car doesn't look nearly as large when all the other costs of owning a vehicle are taken into consideration.
Hmm... I never knew about that one. That would have been nice with the 2.0 attack multiplier. Argh, I clearly spent too many of my early teenage years on BRE, TW, and LORD if I can remember that!
There was a story on theregister.co.uk (I think) a few days ago about XP64 for x86-64 machines being based off of Server 2003 rather than XP. Perhaps this is related somehow?
Either way, it's not like the task is as dramatic as backporting from the NT OS's to the 9x OS's...
Nope. Privateer was a flight-sim game with trading and mercenary jobs for income sources for PC's (I dunno about Macs). Never "online". It was from about the same time period though. Great game.
Not once you buy 32676 fighters to defend your planet! =) Then you could take a few days off of TW without problems!
Or was it 32675?
I know... one of the later releases of TW upped the variable type...
It's not too far off, I think most of the big stations in Canada are dual broadcasting now. Receivers are still scarce... and too large for phones though.
Most homes and small offices are just fine with XP home. Plug in, DHCP from router and you're done. Heck, to add a network printer, just browse the network and double click - the drivers generally install themselves. WAY better than Windows 98 and W2K.
IMHO, at $100 for OEM, Windows XP Home is a pretty good deal for the average home user and small business. IE and MS Office on the other hand can be replaced quite well by free OSS alternatives.
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It's too bad that whistle-blower protection laws are still a joke in Canada. They were in the US too, until recently (i.e. Enron).
How secure is secure enough? From what I can see in almost every office I've been in, finding a way to steal data (not necessarily digital format) is relatively easy. So should we really expect "perfect" security from WiFi networks?
/.'s use at home?
Clearly unencrypted wireless is out, WEP too. But how about WPA? I personally feel that running VPN over WiFi would be best, but for many small businesses, the added complexity is hard to justify.
Let me put this another way, what do
except eMule (or I guess the protocol it runs) can't share until it has a complete segment - typically 8Mb. With BT, each peer starts sharing the load a LOT earlier which makes it great for new releases where there aren't many seeds.
Generally, formatting and graphics help communication. Fonts, graphics, layout, whatever. Ever try to read a man-page and wish that there was some sensible formatting and highlighting? Would Slashdot be useable if it was pure text only? How about the formatting of your newspaper or textbook?
Several years ago there were legitimate worries about client support for HTML email. There were also worries about viruses. For me at least, those days are long gone.
The biggest problem is people abusing HTML email w/a multitude of fonts/graphics/etc - but that's a people problem, not a technology one.
In Canada, and probably the US, stores, cabs, offices, etc. are allowed to play broadcast radio stations in their facilities for free (i.e. w/o paying RRIA). But if a store pops a few CDs into a changer, then it has to pay for the privelege of using copywrited music to help sell stuff. In theory it makes sense; however, I question the ability of CRIA (Canada) or RRIA to properly distribute the license fees to match the artists whose music is actually played.
MS doesn't package it in XP now, does it? From the machines I've seen, I _think_ Dell/IBM/HP choose to install a JRE for their customers. Smaller whitebox shops are on their own I guess.
Thinking back now, I can't believe how many hours I spent on various platforms organizing 6 different blocks...
I think that that game on the original Game Boy created the entire hand held gaming industry.
More than making them dependent on "free" food, one of the biggest problems with sending food (or money that is earmarked specifically for food*) is that it distorts the market prices in those areas. In other words, the local farmers can not compete with "free" and they are forced to shut their farms and move on to other ways to make a living. Given the relatively underdeveloped economies, this is a real problem because there aren't that many other ways to earn a living. Over the long term, this hurts their economies greatly.
Note that disasters are a different situation entirely.
* it's a common practice in Canada, and probably most other developed countries, for national (government) level donations of cash to come with stipulations that the donation must be used to buy Canadian (or [insert donating country name here]) goods. It makes everyone feel good about helping other countries without "costing" quite as much.
the other major news sites online and offline will all be talking about Hitachi's great technology to store 30 000 mp3's on the next ipod mini. A few bucks of marketing VERY well spent.
/.'s, never mind the general public, wouldn't be able to understand from a generic press release.
Double points for doing this with something so technical that most
and not a single wise crack about the parent post? I think we've established one fact about /. -- we unanimously love Transformers. =)
Looking at that list of series' almost makes me feel ashamed that I've only watched G1! Worse still, it makes me feel real old, finding out that the movie is 20 years old!!
It hasn't been used since 1998. Welcome back!
Considering MS initially licensed SQL Server from Sybase (I think) I wouldn't at all be surprised if SQL Server was crossplatform ready.
I'd hate to start seeing "IKEA is dying" comments on /.
Yet you take the effort to make a post? =)
One day a year w/o Slashdot... I've gotten used to it. At least the TCP/IP evil bit hasn't shown up today...
It's nice to have been the first Network OS for PC's. The first guys to implement networks were invariably the biggest companies since they had the most to gain and the most resources to invest in a computer network. By default, they installed Netware. Fast forward 15-20 years and the bulk of these guys are still on Novell for authentication/directory services and probably file and print. Plus, since NDS works with anything, on many different platforms, there has been little reason for big co's to drop Novell - authentication to MS servers has been seemless for a long time.
Further, Novell is currently profitable and has a fat bank account. I think they'll have enough cash flow to finish any transition to Linux. With their brand name and history, they'll easily make SUSE the #2 Linux distro around (with a real shot at #1).
IMHO, what Novell could really use right now is a some really good integration of WINE into SUSE so that their new Server + Workstation bundles actually have a chance of being useful to the average company that has the odd Windows app that they need to run the business.
I think the general idea is to get good links with appropriate anchor text (words in the link) from other sites (e.g. spamming blogs) for stuff you might buy, say, "Nikon SLR Digital" but include your ebay affiliate code in the link.
I've never looked into the ebay affiliate program, but I guess it must be relatively profitable since a lot of people buy Google Adwords (at a minimum cost of 5c per click!) for various shopping items.
or paper weights.
A lot of places have very high license fees for the right to own a personal vehicle, in the order of thousands of dollars per year. This is for registration or licensing fees, NOT insurance. Also, it is quite common for gas to cost a lot more than it does in North America.
So, it makes sense that if you are spending a lot of money on fees and other costs, you have the incentive to upgrade vehicles more frequently because the capital cost of a new car doesn't look nearly as large when all the other costs of owning a vehicle are taken into consideration.
Hmm... I never knew about that one. That would have been nice with the 2.0 attack multiplier. Argh, I clearly spent too many of my early teenage years on BRE, TW, and LORD if I can remember that!
There was a story on theregister.co.uk (I think) a few days ago about XP64 for x86-64 machines being based off of Server 2003 rather than XP. Perhaps this is related somehow?
Either way, it's not like the task is as dramatic as backporting from the NT OS's to the 9x OS's...
Nope. Privateer was a flight-sim game with trading and mercenary jobs for income sources for PC's (I dunno about Macs). Never "online". It was from about the same time period though. Great game.
Not once you buy 32676 fighters to defend your planet! =) Then you could take a few days off of TW without problems!
Or was it 32675?
I know... one of the later releases of TW upped the variable type...
It's not too far off, I think most of the big stations in Canada are dual broadcasting now. Receivers are still scarce... and too large for phones though.
Most homes and small offices are just fine with XP home. Plug in, DHCP from router and you're done.
Heck, to add a network printer, just browse the network and double click - the drivers generally install themselves. WAY better than Windows 98 and W2K.
IMHO, at $100 for OEM, Windows XP Home is a pretty good deal for the average home user and small business. IE and MS Office on the other hand can be replaced quite well by free OSS alternatives.
You need admin rights to install software. Windows has issues, as does Linux, but this isn't one of them.