You mean the Windows version of putty is still secure and open source isn't? for shame! Go ahead anti MS fascists. Mod me down. If I had said it the other way around it would be +5 informative. I use both and the only reason I still use MS is because the programs I want to run won't run on *nix. They've had years to make it work and haven't yet even in beta. Make Quicken and my games work in *nix and my path to the dark side will be complete.
yeah that's the part I agreed to and it stopped at that extent. If you'll notice I'm talking about libraries for linux and c++. There's tons of libraries that keep you from having to reinvent the wheel out there. When it comes to outright copies of DLL files stolen from other people then yes it's theft. However there are circumstances with shared DLL's as well. Almost everyone uses the winsock32.dll for network connectivity because it's already there, already working, and microsoft tells you how to tie into it right on their website.
I agree but only to a certain extent. I'm learning c++ on linux lately to expand my horizons and pass the time during my unemployment. While reading books and getting other code to reference as examples I noticed that...well....there's just a limited number of ways to make a computer do a specific task with a single programming language. If you want to stream data through a socket to the audio then you use pretty much the same code as everyone else and possibly change some of the variable names. That's about all you can do with it unless you want to reinvent the wheel & not use public libraries.
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which is exactly why my satellite isp is super fast for downloads but unusable for games. 1000+ms ping times are horrible.
Someone tried that and decided to make it "more profitable" and killed the idea with citysearch.com. When it first came out they were very reasonable in prices and did quite a bit of radio advertising to get people signed up on the searches. Too bad all of the cool stuff that used to be free on the internet has either gone pay or spam-registration based.
I'm use an older version of staroffice (back when it was a free download) and there's lots of things such as newer slide shows or documents with macros it won't view. Does this newer version address any of that?
I hate their commercials with claims like "the most powerful personal computer in the world". Maybe they should meet some of the people I know who like to see how many processors & how much ram they can fit in their full size tower running the top of the line everything.
I don't believe understood me properly or made a really bad assumption on my thinking. It should be noticable by anyone that when someone patents software functionality that more than MRTG would be affected by this. MRTG is just an example and had a very good link to the whole story and what can be done about it. We've seen other stories on here where companies are in trouble for the patents of things like online shopping carts & stuff like that. All we can do is wait a couple of weeks now to see what they say in courts. Or if you wish to be pro-active look at the link I posted and make your voice heard. Making assumptions about what people think is not the way to make a difference.
Apparently someone in Europe patented certain functions of MRTG and it would force MRTG pay to use these functions. You'd think there would be amnesty for people who used something for years before a law was put in place like this. I would hate to see awesome software like MRTG go. Would this be considered a Moral right of use?
You ever tried transferring a.bmp over dialup? I thought my machine was posessed the first time I saw 50K throughput on dialup with that. This was without accelerator software only using the windows compression. I was impressed.
Why must we have a discussion on every single MS update? This is like posting a major news announcement at every virus that comes around. Set up critical updates to download & install when you are ready, set up anti-virus to auto-update, and move on with the important things that we as a community of intelligent computer users can benefit from. It's not news if MS already discovered it, researched it, wrote a patch, tested it, and released the patch.
In other news: Elvis Presley is still dead and the teddy bear icon virus still runs rampant.
If we must post security advisories do it for a *nix platform where critical updates aren't automatically applied and mission critical apps are in danger of being compromised.
I haven't read all 482 comments but my solution was to write a very simple html page that submitted to a simple Access database where they had to submit problems through this "trouble ticket system". It had a critical rating they could select while submitting of 1 being 'when you have time and 10 being my computer is totally dead and I can't work. Of course I had to go back and change this # but it was alot simpler than dealing with them calling me over & over. That way they could see just how far down the list they were and it actually got my boss to notice how much I do when he looked at the page & noticed over 2,000 open tickets. About 1,000 were things like 'my mouse sticks a little' and I always put them off for after the rate 10's. My little program grew more elaborate as time went on by adding things like combining tickets when a single user had more than one. They finally spent thousands on some lotus notes plugin help desk software that was more work to maintain than my own program but oh well...grin. Anyways they had the option to cancel their ticket and some of them realized asking me to replace toner cartridge in their printer could be done alot faster if they went & asked for it themselves and I found my workload decreasing on it's own.
If it's legislated to a single header I think it would be more effective against U.S. spammers to also make it illegal to forge the header information showing where it came from.
One law in place already I'm surprised people haven't used to sue their way to rich & fame is false advertising. If I ordered from each and every one of the penis enlargement spams I should be 1/4 mile or more now in length "guaranteed"! Hey...it didn't say "not cumulative with other enlargement products".
At least spammers operating inside the U.S. will be a little nervous when they get several notifications from lawyers after it was traced back to them. Bouncing emails off of or originating from foreign mail servers may be effective for not being able to do anything at the ISP level but if they are caught in their apartment standing in a room full of penis enlargement pill cases where the law can reach them at a business level..... They'll probably wish they hadn't sold it to all those prisoners who are winking & saying "you're my little puppy now".
I think you're missing the point and comparing apples to oranges. Independent consultants WANT to find more work and get $$ from it. Hired contractors are hired to do a specific job at site A, B, and C on a particular day. When you finish job A you don't have time to scan their network and diagnose this stuff.
I run my own company now and you can be assured I look for EVERYTHING that needs to be done since it's more $$ in my pocket and I'm the one who'll be called at 3AM if it breaks again since it's practically my baby. Feels so nice:)
I can't get the info pulled up on bug fixes. Did they just add new features or did they fix some stability issues as well? If it's more stable I'll definitely try it out.
Not every hour but every time I want to watch a DVD in fullscreen I do. Also when I"m showing someone something and they're squinting at my 1280x1024 resolution I just CTRL-ALT-minus when I'm in KDE to change resolutions on the fly. It's really quite handy for some people.
AND was modded up to 4 even while incoherent...grin. Just shows all it takes is a little MS bashing to get modded up even if it doesn't make sense! heh
I've always used Norton Antivirus and religiously keep it updated. I have never once got a virus from OE myself and my computer stays online 24/7. It's the uninformed users who aren't smart enough (or too naive to believe they should) get antivirus that ended up getting them.
When I worked in IT the people who got the viruses were confronted if they had ignored virus update warnings due to the risk of lawsuits if they were infected & infected a clients network. It's really not that big of a problem if you have a good AV.
No but somebody told me that bought a 3rd party app that does filter OE and it worked great. Personally I haven't tried it but I thought it would be worth checking out since OE won't do it by itself.
I guess I expected there to be no more CRT monitors taking up my whole desk and although it was 1990 before I installed Unix for the first time, I thought it would have had more apps than Windows by now. I suppose I half expected floppy drive speed to go up just like CD speed was too.
But if you had told me in 1990 I would be running multiple GHz, 1.5 Gig of RAM that only cost me $90, An 80G HD that cost about the same, my video card would be more than twice as powerful as my entire system, and that I could burn CDs for about 10 cents each....I wouldn't have believed you.
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You mean the Windows version of putty is still secure and open source isn't? for shame! Go ahead anti MS fascists. Mod me down. If I had said it the other way around it would be +5 informative. I use both and the only reason I still use MS is because the programs I want to run won't run on *nix. They've had years to make it work and haven't yet even in beta. Make Quicken and my games work in *nix and my path to the dark side will be complete.
yeah that's the part I agreed to and it stopped at that extent. If you'll notice I'm talking about libraries for linux and c++. There's tons of libraries that keep you from having to reinvent the wheel out there. When it comes to outright copies of DLL files stolen from other people then yes it's theft. However there are circumstances with shared DLL's as well. Almost everyone uses the winsock32.dll for network connectivity because it's already there, already working, and microsoft tells you how to tie into it right on their website.
I agree but only to a certain extent. I'm learning c++ on linux lately to expand my horizons and pass the time during my unemployment. While reading books and getting other code to reference as examples I noticed that...well....there's just a limited number of ways to make a computer do a specific task with a single programming language. If you want to stream data through a socket to the audio then you use pretty much the same code as everyone else and possibly change some of the variable names. That's about all you can do with it unless you want to reinvent the wheel & not use public libraries.
which is exactly why my satellite isp is super fast for downloads but unusable for games. 1000+ms ping times are horrible.
Someone tried that and decided to make it "more profitable" and killed the idea with citysearch.com. When it first came out they were very reasonable in prices and did quite a bit of radio advertising to get people signed up on the searches. Too bad all of the cool stuff that used to be free on the internet has either gone pay or spam-registration based.
What the hell? Mine is talking about budget cuts and using other operating systems at work. I'm unemployed you insensitive clod!
I'm use an older version of staroffice (back when it was a free download) and there's lots of things such as newer slide shows or documents with macros it won't view. Does this newer version address any of that?
I hate their commercials with claims like "the most powerful personal computer in the world". Maybe they should meet some of the people I know who like to see how many processors & how much ram they can fit in their full size tower running the top of the line everything.
I don't believe understood me properly or made a really bad assumption on my thinking. It should be noticable by anyone that when someone patents software functionality that more than MRTG would be affected by this. MRTG is just an example and had a very good link to the whole story and what can be done about it. We've seen other stories on here where companies are in trouble for the patents of things like online shopping carts & stuff like that. All we can do is wait a couple of weeks now to see what they say in courts. Or if you wish to be pro-active look at the link I posted and make your voice heard. Making assumptions about what people think is not the way to make a difference.
Apparently someone in Europe patented certain functions of MRTG and it would force MRTG pay to use these functions. You'd think there would be amnesty for people who used something for years before a law was put in place like this. I would hate to see awesome software like MRTG go. Would this be considered a Moral right of use?
You ever tried transferring a .bmp over dialup? I thought my machine was posessed the first time I saw 50K throughput on dialup with that. This was without accelerator software only using the windows compression. I was impressed.
Why must we have a discussion on every single MS update? This is like posting a major news announcement at every virus that comes around. Set up critical updates to download & install when you are ready, set up anti-virus to auto-update, and move on with the important things that we as a community of intelligent computer users can benefit from. It's not news if MS already discovered it, researched it, wrote a patch, tested it, and released the patch.
In other news: Elvis Presley is still dead and the teddy bear icon virus still runs rampant.
If we must post security advisories do it for a *nix platform where critical updates aren't automatically applied and mission critical apps are in danger of being compromised.
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I haven't read all 482 comments but my solution was to write a very simple html page that submitted to a simple Access database where they had to submit problems through this "trouble ticket system". It had a critical rating they could select while submitting of 1 being 'when you have time and 10 being my computer is totally dead and I can't work. Of course I had to go back and change this # but it was alot simpler than dealing with them calling me over & over. That way they could see just how far down the list they were and it actually got my boss to notice how much I do when he looked at the page & noticed over 2,000 open tickets. About 1,000 were things like 'my mouse sticks a little' and I always put them off for after the rate 10's. My little program grew more elaborate as time went on by adding things like combining tickets when a single user had more than one. They finally spent thousands on some lotus notes plugin help desk software that was more work to maintain than my own program but oh well...grin. Anyways they had the option to cancel their ticket and some of them realized asking me to replace toner cartridge in their printer could be done alot faster if they went & asked for it themselves and I found my workload decreasing on it's own.
If it's legislated to a single header I think it would be more effective against U.S. spammers to also make it illegal to forge the header information showing where it came from.
One law in place already I'm surprised people haven't used to sue their way to rich & fame is false advertising. If I ordered from each and every one of the penis enlargement spams I should be 1/4 mile or more now in length "guaranteed"! Hey...it didn't say "not cumulative with other enlargement products".
At least spammers operating inside the U.S. will be a little nervous when they get several notifications from lawyers after it was traced back to them. Bouncing emails off of or originating from foreign mail servers may be effective for not being able to do anything at the ISP level but if they are caught in their apartment standing in a room full of penis enlargement pill cases where the law can reach them at a business level..... They'll probably wish they hadn't sold it to all those prisoners who are winking & saying "you're my little puppy now".
I think you're missing the point and comparing apples to oranges. Independent consultants WANT to find more work and get $$ from it. Hired contractors are hired to do a specific job at site A, B, and C on a particular day. When you finish job A you don't have time to scan their network and diagnose this stuff.
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I run my own company now and you can be assured I look for EVERYTHING that needs to be done since it's more $$ in my pocket and I'm the one who'll be called at 3AM if it breaks again since it's practically my baby. Feels so nice
or is the last picture on that link showing a guy flipping us off? It definitely looks like it!
I can't get the info pulled up on bug fixes. Did they just add new features or did they fix some stability issues as well? If it's more stable I'll definitely try it out.
Not every hour but every time I want to watch a DVD in fullscreen I do. Also when I"m showing someone something and they're squinting at my 1280x1024 resolution I just CTRL-ALT-minus when I'm in KDE to change resolutions on the fly. It's really quite handy for some people.
AND was modded up to 4 even while incoherent...grin. Just shows all it takes is a little MS bashing to get modded up even if it doesn't make sense! heh
I've always used Norton Antivirus and religiously keep it updated. I have never once got a virus from OE myself and my computer stays online 24/7. It's the uninformed users who aren't smart enough (or too naive to believe they should) get antivirus that ended up getting them.
When I worked in IT the people who got the viruses were confronted if they had ignored virus update warnings due to the risk of lawsuits if they were infected & infected a clients network. It's really not that big of a problem if you have a good AV.
No but somebody told me that bought a 3rd party app that does filter OE and it worked great. Personally I haven't tried it but I thought it would be worth checking out since OE won't do it by itself.
I guess I expected there to be no more CRT monitors taking up my whole desk and although it was 1990 before I installed Unix for the first time, I thought it would have had more apps than Windows by now. I suppose I half expected floppy drive speed to go up just like CD speed was too.
But if you had told me in 1990 I would be running multiple GHz, 1.5 Gig of RAM that only cost me $90, An 80G HD that cost about the same, my video card would be more than twice as powerful as my entire system, and that I could burn CDs for about 10 cents each....I wouldn't have believed you.
It's not being used as a desktop.