It's not up to Adobe to police how people use their product.
In other news a leading maker of knives, concerned with the fact that criminals are using their products to harm innocent victims have stopped making sharpening stones. Also, all new knives will be shipped with duller blades.
The knife using community have circumvented the problem by using their old sharpening stones to sharpen the new duller knives.
If you ported to Linux I would gladly download it too. Too bad it can never happen.
WP5.1 helped me get through my final year in Universtity. I had upgraded the old C64 to a 286 and now had WP51/Lotus1-2-3/Harvard Graphics. It was amazing the quality layouts you can do on a paper as opposed to a typewriter which most of the other students used.
We even got a very crude overhead projector going. This thing was funny, you can hold it up and see write through it, and it would plug into the com port of the 286 which we hauled to the presentation, and lay it over top of a tranparency overhead projector. Ironic that I can't stomach Powerpoint or any or those presentation programs today. In hindsight that was probably the first ever "powerpoint" type presentation those folks ever saw. They wondered what the hell we were up to when we brought the equipment in.
Anyway, I digress again, my point was, I got it going under DOSEmu a while back and it works fine. I know some posters weren't too thrilled with this story but I appreciate these types of help webpages. While I did RTFM about a year or so ago and did the same thing, I of course did not take notes and would have to reinvent the wheel again. Not anymore with this site.
I think this ad campaign is directed as much at their own investors as it is against Linux. They need to show the troops that they are in control and that there is nothing to worry about. Investors want so badly for it to be true that many of them will believe any pro-Microsoft report, no matter wheree it comes from, to calm their own worries. This will have a stabilizing effect on the market. This is more about keeping their stock price up then anything. The real proof is in the pudding, not in fleece job Marketing gimmicks like this, and most IT execs are smarter then we give them credit for.
Could you imagine the exec who makes a decison based on a study that resides at Microsoft.com. He\she wouldn't last very long.
- they must agree to never disable the Virus Scanner and Firewall
- they must agree to never install games from a cereal box
- they must agree to use Mozilla for web and mail..or Firebird\Thunderbird. (same stuff)
- they must admit that their computer is having problems and they need help.
- they must be open to understanding the importance of updates and the dangers of p2p programs that install spyware.
- they must bring me their computer if they want it fixed. I just can't do it at their places as they are not setup for effective troubleshooting. (incredible how many people that eliminates...can't even be bothered to bring it to you...they want you there)
- they must take an interest in maintaining the health of their system.
I used to help out friends and family all the time removing viruses and ad-ware but I have put a stop to it unless they specifically ask for help and bring me their computer. The stuff is getting ridiculous and the average user couldn't care less.
I was visiting my parents when they got their Dell and out of the box it required over 20Mb of security fixes and had a virus scanner (Mcafee) that was set to explode after 90 days if they didn't subscribe and the firewall off by default. Oh and of course their account that they setup with the instructions made them an administrator. We got that patched up and hardened quickly but your average Joe who buys a system and plugs it in is just a sitting duck and he has no clue. It's pathetic that companies like Dell can't harden the things a little before shipping them out.
Win98, Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird, a decent virus scanner, ad-aware, a packet filter of some kind and a little common sense and you are no longer a Microsoft marketing droids wet dream. Get it?
It's only a billion! What you propose would take, not only trillions of dollars, but political will. Maybe I'm a skeptic but I think we need different leaders all over the world. In the meantime let's enjoy a billion dollar scope.
Great advice, thanks. Checked out your site, very cool scope.
Our club had an ATM workshop in May and we tested the true focal length of a mirror and then used Newt to plugin the values which calculated the proper distance the secondary mirror should be from the primary mirror. Values included, the size of the and the travel of the focuser, focal length of mirror and the size of the secondary to name a few. I was surprised by the fact that a mirror advertised as F/6 may not be and you have to test it which really determines the placement of the two mirrors in relation to one another.
I appreciate your advice and will be checking your website in more depth.
I saw one guy mount his Dob in a wagon, the same type of red wagon you may have had when you were a kid. Great for someone who observes mostly from their yard. Roll it out into the yard to observe and back into the garage when done.
Yes it was greedy, but come on, an old guy and his wife get wiped out and you think they got what they deserved? I know the police warned him but I guess the old couple didn't have any grown up kids looking out for them.
Today it's 419, but put yourself in a rocking chair at a ripe old age and see if you can spot the scam. It's easy to feel young and smug. I feel bad for the old geezer, in his mind they weren't breaking the law, he was just a trusting old guy.
Right on. It's not the software making people stupid. It's user laziness. It irritates me when a manager calls us in for a meeting and just before he begins he has his assistant load the PowerPoint Presentation that head office sent them. They haven't even read it themselves and then they go on to bore the hell out of you for the next hour. If they are going to do that then just email me the file and I'll read it myself.
The RCMP gave us a networking security presentation and those guys really knew how to use powerpoint. Were they masters of the software? No. But they knew their content inside out and their use of powerpoint was excellent. The slides used were never to present bullets packed with useless info. They were used to make a point or recap key steps, or present graphs with interesting statistics. They could give a course on the proper use of powerpoint.
In any event rule 1 should be; "Before you step up in front of a crowd, at least know what the hell you are talking about." If you don't, there ain't no stickin' whiz-bang light show that will ever save you.
Where I work we are just starting to migrate away from Banyan Vines. Solid workhorse of an OS. Stable beyond belief. StreetTalk, once you get used to it is a joy to use.
Anyway I had an HP Tech come in to test drives in the Vines Servers RAID array (they identified a problem with the drives....long story) and he sees a Linux Box (P2-233) in the corner. We start gabbing about upgrades and I tell him I am going to be upgrading the Linux Server soon. He starts mentioning all kinds of neat hardware and how if it were him he would do this and that. Then he asks me what I'm planning. I just look at him and tell him.."I plan on putting an extra 64MB of RAM in it".
The point is, that as long as it is useful people will continue to use it. Hide that 98 box behind a firewall, run Firebird/Thunderbird for browsing and email, keep the virus scanner up to date and don't do anything stupid. Flip the tec company marketing drones the bird and do things on your own terms.
I agree, it's so dead simple. To top it off, for those of us who enjoy watching the election results afterwards it is incredible how quickly the whole thing is resolved. 8:00pm strikes and within 10 minutes they are already predicting the outcome, and when the National news stations (CBC and CTV) make a prediction they are usually bang on. Barely enough time to even start eating the bowl of popcorn and you already know the result.
Leave it to technology companies to pump big ideas into the PHB's, bureaucrats and politicians heads.
Hear hear!!!
I agree 100%. And I wish we would stop talking about licensing Internet users in a public forum because if some brainiac with the Canadian Federal or Ontario Provincial Government reads this article we will most certainly go down that path. Imagine the empire a bureaucrat could build around this. Simply genius!
So ssshhhhh.
Slashdot Mirror
Where I work that would be considered the ideal candidate.
I'd rather win a million legally.
I don't think cellmate Bubba would be interested in that particular crack.
In other news a leading maker of knives, concerned with the fact that criminals are using their products to harm innocent victims have stopped making sharpening stones. Also, all new knives will be shipped with duller blades.
The knife using community have circumvented the problem by using their old sharpening stones to sharpen the new duller knives.
Ugh!
We even got a very crude overhead projector going. This thing was funny, you can hold it up and see write through it, and it would plug into the com port of the 286 which we hauled to the presentation, and lay it over top of a tranparency overhead projector. Ironic that I can't stomach Powerpoint or any or those presentation programs today. In hindsight that was probably the first ever "powerpoint" type presentation those folks ever saw. They wondered what the hell we were up to when we brought the equipment in.
Anyway, I digress again, my point was, I got it going under DOSEmu a while back and it works fine. I know some posters weren't too thrilled with this story but I appreciate these types of help webpages. While I did RTFM about a year or so ago and did the same thing, I of course did not take notes and would have to reinvent the wheel again. Not anymore with this site.
Could you imagine the exec who makes a decison based on a study that resides at Microsoft.com. He\she wouldn't last very long.
- they must agree to never disable the Virus Scanner and Firewall
- they must agree to never install games from a cereal box
- they must agree to use Mozilla for web and mail..or Firebird\Thunderbird. (same stuff)
- they must admit that their computer is having problems and they need help.
- they must be open to understanding the importance of updates and the dangers of p2p programs that install spyware.
- they must bring me their computer if they want it fixed. I just can't do it at their places as they are not setup for effective troubleshooting. (incredible how many people that eliminates...can't even be bothered to bring it to you...they want you there)
- they must take an interest in maintaining the health of their system.
I was visiting my parents when they got their Dell and out of the box it required over 20Mb of security fixes and had a virus scanner (Mcafee) that was set to explode after 90 days if they didn't subscribe and the firewall off by default. Oh and of course their account that they setup with the instructions made them an administrator. We got that patched up and hardened quickly but your average Joe who buys a system and plugs it in is just a sitting duck and he has no clue. It's pathetic that companies like Dell can't harden the things a little before shipping them out.
Win98, Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird, a decent virus scanner, ad-aware, a packet filter of some kind and a little common sense and you are no longer a Microsoft marketing droids wet dream. Get it?
It's only a billion! What you propose would take, not only trillions of dollars, but political will. Maybe I'm a skeptic but I think we need different leaders all over the world. In the meantime let's enjoy a billion dollar scope.
Our club had an ATM workshop in May and we tested the true focal length of a mirror and then used Newt to plugin the values which calculated the proper distance the secondary mirror should be from the primary mirror. Values included, the size of the and the travel of the focuser, focal length of mirror and the size of the secondary to name a few. I was surprised by the fact that a mirror advertised as F/6 may not be and you have to test it which really determines the placement of the two mirrors in relation to one another.
I appreciate your advice and will be checking your website in more depth.
Cheers
I saw one guy mount his Dob in a wagon, the same type of red wagon you may have had when you were a kid. Great for someone who observes mostly from their yard. Roll it out into the yard to observe and back into the garage when done.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6887
Today it's 419, but put yourself in a rocking chair at a ripe old age and see if you can spot the scam. It's easy to feel young and smug. I feel bad for the old geezer, in his mind they weren't breaking the law, he was just a trusting old guy.
Makes me cheer for the folks at 419eater.com.
The RCMP gave us a networking security presentation and those guys really knew how to use powerpoint. Were they masters of the software? No. But they knew their content inside out and their use of powerpoint was excellent. The slides used were never to present bullets packed with useless info. They were used to make a point or recap key steps, or present graphs with interesting statistics. They could give a course on the proper use of powerpoint.
In any event rule 1 should be; "Before you step up in front of a crowd, at least know what the hell you are talking about." If you don't, there ain't no stickin' whiz-bang light show that will ever save you.
Anyway I had an HP Tech come in to test drives in the Vines Servers RAID array (they identified a problem with the drives....long story) and he sees a Linux Box (P2-233) in the corner. We start gabbing about upgrades and I tell him I am going to be upgrading the Linux Server soon. He starts mentioning all kinds of neat hardware and how if it were him he would do this and that. Then he asks me what I'm planning. I just look at him and tell him.."I plan on putting an extra 64MB of RAM in it".
The point is, that as long as it is useful people will continue to use it. Hide that 98 box behind a firewall, run Firebird/Thunderbird for browsing and email, keep the virus scanner up to date and don't do anything stupid. Flip the tec company marketing drones the bird and do things on your own terms.
Leave it to technology companies to pump big ideas into the PHB's, bureaucrats and politicians heads.
They could sell a drowning PHB a glass of water.
Hear hear!!! I agree 100%. And I wish we would stop talking about licensing Internet users in a public forum because if some brainiac with the Canadian Federal or Ontario Provincial Government reads this article we will most certainly go down that path. Imagine the empire a bureaucrat could build around this. Simply genius! So ssshhhhh.