It's all about minutes, the more minutes you shovel the more management likes it. They were a bit slow with the internet thing, some still insist on having walled gardens... WAP and the like was a classic misunderstanding of the internet too, and now we have nice proper browsers!
Don't get me started about folks not understanding the internet either, http/https isn't the only protocol people need!
Why not write a/proper/ app that's crossplatform rather than the abortion this is going to be?
And if you're doing to do a *nix port, why not start with the largest *nix installed userbase out there.. OSX (for christ's sake, keep with 10.3 as well, not everyone wants to 'upgrade' to tiger)
Norton Antivirus has been the most annoying damn bit of software I've ever had to remove ever. It's "helpfully" preinstalled on many machines, but after the 'free' subscription expires after a year or whatever, it manages to screw with windows at random.
Yup the firewall prevents internet access, and other oddities. Of course with an expired subscription the user still thinks they're still proof against malware and that they're firewalled.
Parents machine; Norton removal hoses networking completely, and I need to reinstall the network adaptor to get networking to work!
Customers machine; Random 'internet access' and 'cd writing' problems
Customers machine; Doesn't uninstall properly, interferes with Vodafone and Orange Data card installation, use a combination of regedits, the symantec removal tool and add/remove programs to get the machine into a state I can reinstall the corp edition... and many more... First thing I do is download firefox, avg free, m$ anti spyware and adaware... then unplug the machine and take off NAV/Spybot/umpteen other 'helpful' software, and install avg, adaware, m$anti spyware; reconnect to the internet after an initial scan... then update everything, and try to kill off any remaining spyware
The only thing I cant seem to get rid of is a certain young ladies "VX2 / Nail / Aurora" spyware nonsense, any help on that front is appriciated, as the only thing I can think of doing is a reinstall!
Here in the UK they (sony's execs) should be able to get jailed for this under the Computer Misuse Act, hell didn't we just jail/convict some poor guy for accessing a website with../../.. (cos he wanted to check that the site/cause he just donated to hadn't been compromised)
Oh wait, induhviduals get jailed, corporations get fined a miniscule fraction of their revenue.
Administrator privs on windows is pretty much "root" as far as users are concerned *but* there is a higher level of privs. The SYSTEM user, which has a complete control (iirc, and I might not cos it's 4:30am here) it's near enough acting like the operating system as makes no difference.
rootkits tend to get themselves to SYSTEM privs:o(
And just to be clear, I'm not really mad at Blizzard. I think what they did was needless and inconvenient, but not evil. Their policy may be silly, but I still was in violation of it, so I guess I got what I deserved.
You, are becoming Gods. There's a new master of creation, and it's you! Unraveled DNA, and at the same time you're cultivating bacteria strong enough to kill every living thing! Do you think you are ready for that much power? You lot? You lot? Cheeky bastards. You're running around science like kids with guns, creating a new world, while the world you've got is stinking, but, hands up, hands up anyone who thinks you've got it right. Yeah, there's always one. I can see you. If you want the position of God then take the responsibility.
Ignoring the BSD tcp/ip stack (which practically every OS uses some version thereof) and the ftp/telnet apps, and SFU (MKS utils and Interix subsystems)
M$ Doesn't dislike Open Source, they just don't like the GPL and its viral nature. I happen to agree to that too. Every newbie seems to release (or at least seemed to a few years ago, when they made their statement) their favourite program to the world under the GPL.
Previously these programmers would have released the code as shareware or public domain. But I've seen folk release 'trivial' (or just plain shite) software as GPL which I find laughable.
Anyway I'll stop there before I start foaming at the mouth. Nurse! Medication Please!
I'll probably get marked as a troll for this one, but honestly...
While Kyoto(sp?) protocols wouldn't have stopped this, it should be taken as a wakeup call for america to stop dicking about with playing wargames in the middle east and getting behind stuff that's real (rather than the imagined WMDs and terrorist training camps) and put its considerable weight into solving the global warming problem.
Seriously, this guy has some quite valid points, I've seen corporates install some quite wizz-bang products that are really a P.O.S. and spend amazing amounts of time adminning these things even when a concoction of spamassassin and an AV scanner would have done.
People (especially managers) know one thing above all - do things that will justify your position, make sure you're in control and please god don't let them fire me.
Honestly it makes me sick, those people should be made to work for a living rather than making life hell for those that actually do the work.
This is the bloody first thing I tried when I connected to google talk. Running a jabberd in S2S mode is not a/requirement/ of a jabberd *AT ALL* As his edited article admits that he knows that not all jabberds need nor require S2S functionality. In fact has he even RTFM'd the jabberd's manual at all *sigh*. Nugget? F*ck Nugget more like! Seriously, someone with a decent CV really needs to lay off the caffine pills before they end up talking as much sh*t as rms about gnu-everything. (rant over)
When they (google) actually went to press they specifically stated that the DNS SRV records were not active - which allows discovery of the host running the jabberd for that domain.
I don't see the reason for sensationalist claptrap for a beta service, hell do you REALLY want to support voice comms to someone@jabber.org when you're *starting* to roll out a project?
Slashdot Mirror
You've never worked with telcos have you ?
... WAP and the like was a classic misunderstanding of the internet too, and now we have nice proper browsers!
It's all about minutes, the more minutes you shovel the more management likes it. They were a bit slow with the internet thing, some still insist on having walled gardens
Don't get me started about folks not understanding the internet either, http/https isn't the only protocol people need!
*argh*
Why not write a /proper/ app that's crossplatform rather than the abortion this is going to be?
.. OSX (for christ's sake, keep with 10.3 as well, not everyone wants to 'upgrade' to tiger)
And if you're doing to do a *nix port, why not start with the largest *nix installed userbase out there
Apparently Aurora is one of the nastyest things to try to get rid off.
it contantly checks startup items, and hooks logon/logoff events and whatnot.
looks like it's a reinstall and some kind of image backup whatnot
*sigh*
How is this different from when, say ... spamassassin,clamav,etc gets an update that's incompatable to the version you're using?
You find yourself completely unprotected, or reject all mail... etc
This isn't a case of "oh noes - winders baaaad", it's a case of sloppy QA procedures. Linux and OSS doesn't magically protect against that!
Norton Antivirus has been the most annoying damn bit of software I've ever had to remove ever. It's "helpfully" preinstalled on many machines, but after the 'free' subscription expires after a year or whatever, it manages to screw with windows at random.
... and many more ... ... then unplug the machine and take off NAV/Spybot/umpteen other 'helpful' software, and install avg, adaware, m$anti spyware; reconnect to the internet after an initial scan... then update everything, and try to kill off any remaining spyware
Yup the firewall prevents internet access, and other oddities. Of course with an expired subscription the user still thinks they're still proof against malware and that they're firewalled.
Parents machine; Norton removal hoses networking completely, and I need to reinstall the network adaptor to get networking to work!
Customers machine; Random 'internet access' and 'cd writing' problems
Customers machine; Doesn't uninstall properly, interferes with Vodafone and Orange Data card installation, use a combination of regedits, the symantec removal tool and add/remove programs to get the machine into a state I can reinstall the corp edition
First thing I do is download firefox, avg free, m$ anti spyware and adaware
The only thing I cant seem to get rid of is a certain young ladies "VX2 / Nail / Aurora" spyware nonsense, any help on that front is appriciated, as the only thing I can think of doing is a reinstall!
STOP WITH THE UNFUNNY JOKES STOP
random garbage inserted here to pass the steaming pile that is the lame filter
you mean like www.myspace.com ?
*argh*
cool, only a matter of time til rdesktop implements it :o)
:(
seriously tho, I'm still waiting for a FOSS rdesktop server istead of vnc
It's more a gcc bug.
This is *NOT* a ubuntu problem, it is *NOT* a C3 CPU bug.
The cmov extension is ***optional***.
VIA chose to save silicon space by not implementing it.
Gcc unfortunatly always uses cmov when compiling for 686 *WITHOUT* checking for its presence.
The work around is to use libs and kernels i386
Here in the UK they (sony's execs) should be able to get jailed for this under the Computer Misuse Act, hell didn't we just jail/convict some poor guy for accessing a website with ../../.. (cos he wanted to check that the site/cause he just donated to hadn't been compromised)
Oh wait, induhviduals get jailed, corporations get fined a miniscule fraction of their revenue.
Silly me.
Actually it's much worse.
:o(
Administrator privs on windows is pretty much "root" as far as users are concerned *but* there is a higher level of privs. The SYSTEM user, which has a complete control (iirc, and I might not cos it's 4:30am here) it's near enough acting like the operating system as makes no difference.
rootkits tend to get themselves to SYSTEM privs
And just to be clear, I'm not really mad at Blizzard. I think what they did was needless and inconvenient, but not evil. Their policy may be silly, but I still was in violation of it, so I guess I got what I deserved.
OMG who really gives a damn ?
Keep this sh*t in your journal taco!
Actually yes, according to someones saved html.
It indeed did mention base.google.com !
All your base are belong to google!
Yes, this article is dull, TFA is dull, TFA which TFA is dull in short this is dull.
PS. This post is dull also.
Cut + paste link. redirects to thief.jpg otherwise ... Lame
You, are becoming Gods. There's a new master of creation, and it's you! Unraveled DNA, and at the same time you're cultivating bacteria strong enough to kill every living thing! Do you think you are ready for that much power? You lot? You lot? Cheeky bastards. You're running around science like kids with guns, creating a new world, while the world you've got is stinking, but, hands up, hands up anyone who thinks you've got it right. Yeah, there's always one. I can see you. If you want the position of God then take the responsibility.
... the quote just seemed apt somehow
... but I think I better post instead :o)
Ignoring the BSD tcp/ip stack (which practically every OS uses some version thereof) and the ftp/telnet apps, and SFU (MKS utils and Interix subsystems)
M$ Doesn't dislike Open Source, they just don't like the GPL and its viral nature. I happen to agree to that too. Every newbie seems to release (or at least seemed to a few years ago, when they made their statement) their favourite program to the world under the GPL.
Previously these programmers would have released the code as shareware or public domain. But I've seen folk release 'trivial' (or just plain shite) software as GPL which I find laughable.
Anyway I'll stop there before I start foaming at the mouth. Nurse! Medication Please!
mmmmm nurse!
yay, modded troll
stupid moderators! you know I'm right!
I'll probably get marked as a troll for this one, but honestly ...
While Kyoto(sp?) protocols wouldn't have stopped this, it should be taken as a wakeup call for america to stop dicking about with playing wargames in the middle east and getting behind stuff that's real (rather than the imagined WMDs and terrorist training camps) and put its considerable weight into solving the global warming problem.
Shame it'll never happen tho.
Read this a while ago... Obviously someone reads http://del.icio.us/popular/
Seriously, this guy has some quite valid points, I've seen corporates install some quite wizz-bang products that are really a P.O.S. and spend amazing amounts of time adminning these things even when a concoction of spamassassin and an AV scanner would have done.
People (especially managers) know one thing above all - do things that will justify your position, make sure you're in control and please god don't let them fire me.
Honestly it makes me sick, those people should be made to work for a living rather than making life hell for those that actually do the work.
ho hum
Preinstalled with ... DUKE NUKEM FOREVER
No Seriously,
lol
You missed out " ???? "
I for one welcome our old/new/current PPC overlords
This is the bloody first thing I tried when I connected to google talk. Running a jabberd in S2S mode is not a /requirement/ of a jabberd *AT ALL* As his edited article admits that he knows that not all jabberds need nor require S2S functionality. In fact has he even RTFM'd the jabberd's manual at all *sigh*. Nugget? F*ck Nugget more like! Seriously, someone with a decent CV really needs to lay off the caffine pills before they end up talking as much sh*t as rms about gnu-everything. (rant over)
When they (google) actually went to press they specifically stated that the DNS SRV records were not active - which allows discovery of the host running the jabberd for that domain.
I don't see the reason for sensationalist claptrap for a beta service, hell do you REALLY want to support voice comms to someone@jabber.org when you're *starting* to roll out a project?
Not only that, I remember AOL !
So I suppose if you don't mind having your SQL server in the DMZ .Net is great.
WTF?(to grandparent post)
You use integrated authentication on your websites? Next you'll be telling me, that you have a PDC and BDC in the DMZ too.
This is why if someone has a MSC? I *never* take any notice of them.