Most Mac home users do use an admin account for day-to-day work, and think that they'll be fine. So the real problem is either that too many Mac users are running as admin, or that admin users have too broad write permissions without using sudo.
This is absolute bollocks. Most Mac home users do *not* use an admin account for day-to-day work. They use the account that was configured when they first turned on their shiny new machine. That account is a normal user account that by virtue of belonging to the admin group has the ability to use sudo. This is exactly the mechanism you have used to solve this problem.
Quite a few years back one of the mainframe operators here was upset that his television reception wasn't too great. He noticed how similar the 10Base5 connector was to the coax aerial socket on the TV. So after unplugging the network and trying but failing to join the cable to the tv he just left the cable dangling. It took a week for the IT staff with the help of some consultants to track down why the network was hosed. These days the tv reception isn't really an issue, there's no tv.
Fortunately, SoftMaker is only a Word and Excel replacement, and for many users, the level of Word and Excel support is probably more than they need. Sure, SoftMaker may have better support for the really complicated Word and Excel formats (see their comparison page for some examples), but how many people really come across 3-d graphics in everyday life?
The bigger problem for most people is PowerPoint slide decks, especially the ones generated by marketing departments that have sound and animation. This is where the shortcomings of OpenOffice hit me the hardest --- and fortunately, SoftMaker doesn't have a solution. So is it worth it to pay USD $70 for a Word and Excel replacement which is more complete than what is currently available in the OSS world and avoid having to watch and listen to the inane drivel the marketing department consider the height of intelligent discourse? Definitely.
How is a Mac less configurable than Linux for example? What exactly is it that you wish to configure and what is the special application you use on Win95 for which there isn't an equivalent on the Mac? I would be interested in knowing how many others who use Win95 are also regular/. readers. I can believe that many users of win95/98/me are thinking the same things but I don't believe those things are anything to do with which operating system they are using.
> 1. Blind spots. > > I understand his point: because of the blind spots you need to keep guards on board, > which kind of defeats the purpose of the cameras. But is it actually realistic to > *not* have guards on board? I would hope not! Even if there is no immediate intention to do so, if the potential exists then someone will mandate it as part of cost-cutting measures.
>2. Equipment not working at -40. > > Considering that these ships are intended to be used by the coast guard in the gulf > of Mexico, I don't see the problem. Even if there is no immediate intention to do so, if the potential exists then someone will mandate it as part of cost-cutting measures.
My kids favourite toys are their little plastic animals, the ones that have no moving parts and feel really great in your hand. And yeah they go everywhere with us.
Not so actually. For time-based tokens the server typically allows a window of 3 minutes, so if your tokencode is correct within the server window you're good to go. This is to allow for drift between the token's internal clock and the server clock which are used to compute the tokencode. Effectively this means that even if you enter the tokencode just before it changes, that tokencode if intercepted is good for up to 3 minutes regardless.
I think you'll find the average Apache admin now runs Mac OSX and has no idea how to lock down a system, all they have to do is check the box that enables personal web sharing.
Windows XP IIS web server is completely inadequate for running any form of site. IIS on XP has a 10 connection limit discussed ad nauseam. Of course Apache will also run on XP so technically you are correct, it is possible to adequately serve several low traffic sites on XP.
Of course suggesting that a home user slap up a Front Page site on their XP Home Edition and connect it to the internet would be somewhat disingenuous.
Come on, what support exactly is being dropped? Is there anyone foolish enough to actually try to get in touch with Microsoft to get a fix for IE Mac? This is just making the status quo official. And btw, just because support is being dropped doesn't make the product stop working.
Also, IE Mac version 5 used the Tasman engine which was a great improvement on what was available at the time on any platform.
Isn't there something a little more compelling to report, this one seems custom made for the Mac zealots. Break out the moofs.
Steve McConnell's Code Complete is an excellent source for coding standards and a good read for any developer. I don't agree with everything in the book but it is comprehensive. Ignore that it's published by Microsoft Press, it's a good one.
My 3 year old son has a large velociraptor and those claws are not for disembowelling or for clawing. They're for hitting with, normally some place soft and sensitive, the pain is quite unbelievable. Don't believe everything scientists tell you, ask someone who has been there. Sheesh, how much did that study cost?
Check out http://aftermail.com/. These guys know how to manage Exchange data. I've seen the presentation and I'm sold and I don't even look after my own mail well let alone anyone else's. Seriously this looks like a solid product for exactly the nasty Exchange issues you're talking about (except for the nasty Exchange itself).
Seriously, I've been using the Hitachi drive in my laptop for a year and a half. I have not experienced any noticeable increase in heat nor any hardware failures in that time (touch wood), just much improved performance. The issue is totally about cost, not about speed/heat. The 7200RPM drives are more expensive and don't meet the price/performance criteria for the Mac Mini.
It's only one letter different. Marketscore too started out only proxying non-secure connections. Personally I think it sucks to give all your traffic to a marketing firm. There's not a whole lot of privacy on the web anyway but this is whittling away a little more of it. Plus it is even more suckful to advertise it as a means of speeding up your browsing. This is the same bullshit story Marketscore used.
This issue isn't necessarily just about Google staff accessing your personal data, it is also about exposing your personal data via Google to villains. This is the same problem with the likes of Marketscore who also proxy web pages. Recently most banks in NZ denied access to their respective internet banking sites from all known Marketscore addresses because Marketscore was proxying SSL connections. I don't see how this new Google "service" is any different. Avoid it.
Personally I found Zeldman's book less than practical. It's good background material on the browser wars and the current state of accepted page layout best practices. It's very css oriented and for practical insight into page layout using css you can't do better than Eric Meyer on CSS, except perhaps for his more recent book.
Web Design Garage covers more than just css layout. The telling comment is perhaps There are many books available on basic Web design, but this one is unusually clear and well-expressed. High praise.
The story I heard (which may be Urban Legend) is that K&R used the style in order to fit more code on the page. It has subsequently been adopted by all and sundry because K&R are gods and so must be correct.
Personally I hate it; the information content to the reader is practically nil. Many years ago I was an advocate of kclittle's indented braces and I agree it makes good sense, the preceding statement is immediately more readable. I gave it up because every IDE I've used tries not to indent braces, plus working in a team resulted in a mishmash of styles, reformatting source files is not my idea of a fun time.
The answer is obvious.
Personally, I quite like C#, and Visual Studio isn't a bad place to work. But I can't stomach VB, even now when it's pretty much C# without braces. If the company I work for decided to use VB for all future development I would definitely bail. When you have to use a tool every day, it's important to be happy with it, otherwise the quality of your work is going to suffer.
When I was younger I would have just quit. Now I'm old I would try to get the decision changed and failing that, look for new work elsewhere before quitting.
The people making money out of this are the drug companies producing the vaccines. Plus a quick google will reveal there is a considerable body of evidence that suggests vaccination is not nearly as safe or effective as the medical fraternity and drug manufacturers would have you believe. Vaccines in general are not subject to the stringent testing required of other drugs.
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Quite a few years back one of the mainframe operators here was upset that his television reception wasn't too great. He noticed how similar the 10Base5 connector was to the coax aerial socket on the TV. So after unplugging the network and trying but failing to join the cable to the tv he just left the cable dangling. It took a week for the IT staff with the help of some consultants to track down why the network was hosed. These days the tv reception isn't really an issue, there's no tv.
Fortunately, SoftMaker is only a Word and Excel replacement, and for many users, the level of Word and Excel support is probably more than they need. Sure, SoftMaker may have better support for the really complicated Word and Excel formats (see their comparison page for some examples), but how many people really come across 3-d graphics in everyday life?
The bigger problem for most people is PowerPoint slide decks, especially the ones generated by marketing departments that have sound and animation. This is where the shortcomings of OpenOffice hit me the hardest --- and fortunately, SoftMaker doesn't have a solution. So is it worth it to pay USD $70 for a Word and Excel replacement which is more complete than what is currently available in the OSS world and avoid having to watch and listen to the inane drivel the marketing department consider the height of intelligent discourse? Definitely.
How is a Mac less configurable than Linux for example? What exactly is it that you wish to configure and what is the special application you use on Win95 for which there isn't an equivalent on the Mac? I would be interested in knowing how many others who use Win95 are also regular /. readers. I can believe that many users of win95/98/me are thinking the same things but I don't believe those things are anything to do with which operating system they are using.
> 1. Blind spots.
>
> I understand his point: because of the blind spots you need to keep guards on board,
> which kind of defeats the purpose of the cameras. But is it actually realistic to
> *not* have guards on board? I would hope not!
Even if there is no immediate intention to do so, if the potential exists then someone will mandate it as part of cost-cutting measures.
>2. Equipment not working at -40.
>
> Considering that these ships are intended to be used by the coast guard in the gulf
> of Mexico, I don't see the problem.
Even if there is no immediate intention to do so, if the potential exists then someone will mandate it as part of cost-cutting measures.
When they use the word "groups" they really mean small gatherings of one person or less. This avoids any embarrassment.
Cos you know it's going to need some aftermarket sound effects. Who wants to own a silent sports car.
My kids favourite toys are their little plastic animals, the ones that have no moving parts and feel really great in your hand. And yeah they go everywhere with us.
Not so actually. For time-based tokens the server typically allows a window of 3 minutes, so if your tokencode is correct within the server window you're good to go. This is to allow for drift between the token's internal clock and the server clock which are used to compute the tokencode. Effectively this means that even if you enter the tokencode just before it changes, that tokencode if intercepted is good for up to 3 minutes regardless.
I think you'll find the average Apache admin now runs Mac OSX and has no idea how to lock down a system, all they have to do is check the box that enables personal web sharing.
I sometimes get a little skiddish too but often a good wash in soapy water will clean them right out. Oh wait this is /., never mind.
Windows XP IIS web server is completely inadequate for running any form of site. IIS on XP has a 10 connection limit discussed ad nauseam. Of course Apache will also run on XP so technically you are correct, it is possible to adequately serve several low traffic sites on XP.
Of course suggesting that a home user slap up a Front Page site on their XP Home Edition and connect it to the internet would be somewhat disingenuous.
Come on, what support exactly is being dropped? Is there anyone foolish enough to actually try to get in touch with Microsoft to get a fix for IE Mac? This is just making the status quo official. And btw, just because support is being dropped doesn't make the product stop working.
Also, IE Mac version 5 used the Tasman engine which was a great improvement on what was available at the time on any platform.
Isn't there something a little more compelling to report, this one seems custom made for the Mac zealots. Break out the moofs.
Steve McConnell's Code Complete is an excellent source for coding standards and a good read for any developer. I don't agree with everything in the book but it is comprehensive. Ignore that it's published by Microsoft Press, it's a good one.
My 3 year old son has a large velociraptor and those claws are not for disembowelling or for clawing. They're for hitting with, normally some place soft and sensitive, the pain is quite unbelievable. Don't believe everything scientists tell you, ask someone who has been there. Sheesh, how much did that study cost?
Check out http://aftermail.com/. These guys know how to manage Exchange data. I've seen the presentation and I'm sold and I don't even look after my own mail well let alone anyone else's. Seriously this looks like a solid product for exactly the nasty Exchange issues you're talking about (except for the nasty Exchange itself).
Seriously, I've been using the Hitachi drive in my laptop for a year and a half. I have not experienced any noticeable increase in heat nor any hardware failures in that time (touch wood), just much improved performance. The issue is totally about cost, not about speed/heat. The 7200RPM drives are more expensive and don't meet the price/performance criteria for the Mac Mini.
Why do suggest a 7200RPM drive is too hot for the mini. The Hitachi 7200 7k6 is a fantastic upgrade.
It's only one letter different. Marketscore too started out only proxying non-secure connections. Personally I think it sucks to give all your traffic to a marketing firm. There's not a whole lot of privacy on the web anyway but this is whittling away a little more of it. Plus it is even more suckful to advertise it as a means of speeding up your browsing. This is the same bullshit story Marketscore used.
This issue isn't necessarily just about Google staff accessing your personal data, it is also about exposing your personal data via Google to villains. This is the same problem with the likes of Marketscore who also proxy web pages. Recently most banks in NZ denied access to their respective internet banking sites from all known Marketscore addresses because Marketscore was proxying SSL connections. I don't see how this new Google "service" is any different. Avoid it.
Personally I found Zeldman's book less than practical. It's good background material on the browser wars and the current state of accepted page layout best practices. It's very css oriented and for practical insight into page layout using css you can't do better than Eric Meyer on CSS, except perhaps for his more recent book.
Web Design Garage covers more than just css layout. The telling comment is perhaps There are many books available on basic Web design, but this one is unusually clear and well-expressed. High praise.
The story I heard (which may be Urban Legend) is that K&R used the style in order to fit more code on the page. It has subsequently been adopted by all and sundry because K&R are gods and so must be correct. Personally I hate it; the information content to the reader is practically nil. Many years ago I was an advocate of kclittle's indented braces and I agree it makes good sense, the preceding statement is immediately more readable. I gave it up because every IDE I've used tries not to indent braces, plus working in a team resulted in a mishmash of styles, reformatting source files is not my idea of a fun time. The answer is obvious.
Personally, I quite like C#, and Visual Studio isn't a bad place to work. But I can't stomach VB, even now when it's pretty much C# without braces. If the company I work for decided to use VB for all future development I would definitely bail. When you have to use a tool every day, it's important to be happy with it, otherwise the quality of your work is going to suffer.
When I was younger I would have just quit. Now I'm old I would try to get the decision changed and failing that, look for new work elsewhere before quitting.
The people making money out of this are the drug companies producing the vaccines. Plus a quick google will reveal there is a considerable body of evidence that suggests vaccination is not nearly as safe or effective as the medical fraternity and drug manufacturers would have you believe. Vaccines in general are not subject to the stringent testing required of other drugs.