...works like a charm - enterprise-grade stuff with remote management, single-sign on and 256 it AES encryption across the whole disk (i.e. boot partition too). slows machines down a little, but it definitely does the job. i'd imagine it's expensive, but it does seem to scale up to enterprise size pretty well.
...you're not the sort of muppet who, when his laptop "breaks", thinks "I know, I'll sell it to someone on Ebay and pretend it was still working".
Not everyone is clued up enough to take the HDD out and wipe it in another PC, either and I think we've had demonstrated that the person in question isn't the brightest tool in the box...
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"Also, the british mentality values privacy of the individual over anything else. The guy who posted someone else's details in public made himself anathema from the community of gentlemen and may have difficulty finding a job or gaining university admission by showing such moral definiencies in handling details of others' personal lifes.
Are you posting that from the Victorian era?
We now have Big Brother as one of our most popular TV shows (attention seeking nobodies stuck in a house and monitored live 24/7), the most CCTV in Europe etc...
perhaps the better reception is because your phone's old enough to do it through brute force and a higher wattage. there's a lot of concern over mobile phone radiation and so handsets now tend to be lower in wattage and more significantly have shaped antennae so they don't radiate towards your head. these two factors tend to have a slightly negative effect on signal strength, particularly now that stubby antennae are unfashionable.
1) RAZRs suck. Hard. They look nice, but the software's appalling: and I mean just in general use as a phone. Ugh. Crappy synch, horrendous UI, stupid menus.
2) Your RAZR's large? The *only* thing it has going for it is the small size and shirt-pocketability.
3) The camera adds approximately 1/10th of a metric bugger-all to the dimensions of your phone. If it's got interference and banding on the image, it's faulty. Most RAZRs don't do this. If you don't like being restricted on where you take it, poke the lens out with a small screwdriver or paint it over black like big corporates with camera restrictions do.
It's not the phone dropping the call - it's the network.
Each GSM cell phone tower can only handle a finite number of calls. Any more than that and you'll either fail to dial a call, or if you're handing over from one cell to another (and remember, GSM cells are quite small on some networks dependant on frequency) then you'll drop the call.
The GSM specs are even bright enough to force dropped calls if a user is in a cell that's full to capacity, and someone dials an emergency number - in this case it'll drop a few calls to let yours through.
You'll notice that some networks advertise their low dropped call rate...
you don't *have* to use it. I recommend it for non-geek users though, as they're the ones who are continually bringing their PCs to me to fix, despite me having put AVG/Spybot etc on and explicitly told them not to install random crap that claims to speed up your internet connection.
Have you found any useful content that hosts file blocks? No, didn't think so. If you had, you'd just comment out that line so you could access it anyway.
It's just another layer of protection.
An analogy might be
"How do I avoid getting an STD from people I sleep with?"
"Ideally you don't sleep with anyone infected. Get them tested. Don't sleep with highrisk groups. Oh, and you might as well wear a condom. It'll lower your risk even if you do those things we told you not to".
The hosts file is the condom: it's not foolproof, but it definitely doesn't hurt. Why would you *not* want to use it on a home PC?
It's not there to be read. It's there so that if someone claims in a court of law that they didn't know they weren't meant to access that system, a lawyer can stand up and say "yes you did: and not only that - you clicked 'continue' to indicate you'd read the MOTD expressly telling you".
agreed. saying that javascript and dhtml are better because they work across all platforms is like saying anal sex is better as it works across all genders...
I guess...cheers for the headsup. To be honest I've got a short term goal of indexing about 200 books ASAP - and all I want is book name, author, date in a.CSV file - and I'm time-poor, what with having a 2 year old to keep amused, a full time job and a pile of PCs *this high* to fix this week. A windows app would save me a load of time - I'm going to spend most of the free time I've got available getting dusty in the attic, getting the books in range of a laptop, and so whilst Linux is nice'n'all, I'm a bit strapped for the time to play with it.
You know how it is, I've been meaning to check out yet another modern distro again(looks like ubuntu's flavour of the month) but before I switch it's gotta do *everything* my Windows boxes do and I've not got the time to sort this out, either.
My bad, I'd love to spend a week or two tinkering but chances of that happening are pretty slim.....
I'll give a free pro Datalogic USB barcode scanner (I've a few spare ones I acquired ages ago and haven't used) to anyone who can come up with a simple Windows application that reads barcodes, submits them to http://isbndb.com/account/dev/api/20-structure.htm l, and builds a simple text file with all my books in there. I've got hundreds of books to take to the Charity shop, and I'd like to itemise them all - and I can't code for toffee.
Can anyone help me out? http://www.eblong.com/zarf/bookscan/#quick suggests it's trivial via Perl for those that can use it...
barcode AT infobubble DOT co DOT uk if they can...!
what the hell's activation got to do with this? you get an OEM XP cd, and sure, it'll want activating on install on an apple. It'll want reactivating when you've changed enough hardware to warrant 7 "votes" to windows: I'd wager on apple hardware this will be just about never. You're not going to be changing your motherboard, etc.
Activation is to stop piracy, not to make it harder to install. Sure, it can be a bit annoying, but get some perspective here.
corporate regulation is understandable in light of dicks like Enron, but it's very very expensive for businesses. Boo-hyphen-hoo, you may say. However, if it costs more for a company to operate, they'll charge more. It'll cost you more as a consumer.
It could be argued that Sarbanes Oxley and the raft of other regulation is overkill. You might argue that companies should have some damn sense of what's right and what isn't, without needing to be regulated down to the tiniest level. Alternately you could argue that you don't trust any company, and would want them to undergo expensive and painful audits - and that you'd be happy as a consumer to pay for that...
the thing with memory stick was that it was obvious that it was a dumb, lockin idea - even to non geeks.
joe punter could tell straight off that there was no particular reason for sony to make a different shape but electrically-and-functionally-identical memory stick, when they're quite familiar with existing ones like SD and compact flash.
Agreed.
"Biopiracy refers to the "monopolisation of genetic resources" according to the show's organisers. It is also defined as the unauthorised use of biological resources by organisations such as corporations, universities and governments."
Guess the question is, what does it mean by unauthorised? Who's authorising or not authorising here? Do the award givers just mean anyone they don't like? Who are the award givers?
From their own website:
"The Coalition Against Biopiracy is an informal group of civil society and peoples' organizations that first came together at the 1995 Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Jakarta."
This isn't giving me the warm fuzzies yet, don't know about you...still, nice logo of a pirate ship with a barcode on the sail.
Providing a freely searchable, non-patented database of genetic infomation would seem to be extremely charitable from my point of view, and valuable to non-profit and for-profit organisations alike...and indeed something that Google could probably offer significant help to. From the nominations own website:
" Google's massive computer power and cutting-edge data-mining capacity make it a logical partner for Craig Venter and his ever-expanding collection of DNA samples taken from humans, animals and microbes living in soil, sea and air" - well, yes, quite. Doesn't make them evil, does it?
It's also not far from the Stanford Folding project which personally I actively support with my CPU time - http://stanford.edu/folding for info.
""Google, in cooperation with Craig Venter, are developing plans to make all of our genomes Googlable to facilitate the brave new world of private genetically-tailored medicines," would seem to be idiocy. What about the human genome project? Do they (I'm still not clear who "they" are in this article, so bear with me) mean they want to stop any and all genetic therapies?
The line "Jim Thomas, from ETC Group, which is one of the organisers behind the awards ceremony, said that Google's recent moves around storing consumer information could land it in hot water with privacy campaigners of all kinds. "The new 'we want to store everyone's information online' mission statement is going to get very controversial if they extend that to genomic information. " suggests that the authors are at best confused. Collaborating on a genomics database is very very different from suggesting that Google are intending to take any individual's personal genetic information and somehow tie it into their browsing habits.
What's more, it's not clear Google are actually doing *anything*:
"The original source for the alleged collaboration between Google and Venter is The Google Story by Pulitzer Prize winner David Vise. However Google has previously refused to comment on the issue and Venter has denied any ongoing relationship. Google did not respond in time for this story."
I'd venture that some relatively unknown pressure group figured that if they intimated Google were doing some shady big brother type operation, they'd get a few headlines...I work for Big Pharma (opinions my own, not representing employer etc etc etc) but I've an open mind and I think this is bollocks...
This is what people just don't seem to get. Email's a part of the whole thing, of course, but it's not what's important.
I know you can run a business on POP3 mail, but for big organisations you want more: you want shared mailboxes, you want shared calendars with meeting requests, you want tasks. You might want single instance storage, and you might want to be able to ensure you can archive mail for x years for SOX compliance. Exchange is very, very good at this. It's not the only solution out there, but it is a good one - obviously MS aren't going to go down well on Slashdot, but Exchange is a very productive bit of software.
This isn't even funny anymore. I actually recommend most of my dumber users to run two anti-virus suites, because modern viruses will purposely disable or sneak past one or the other. The redundancy makes it that much closer to bulletproof.
This is just plain dumb if you're talking about background AV scanning (although it's a good idea if you're talking standalone scanners). AV works by hooking into the "kernel" if you can call it that of Windows, and two competing products running at the same time will be a) a monster resource hog as they both work around each other, and b) will flag a load of false positives, as the lowlevel operation of an AV program is likely to look like a rootkit or similar to the other AV.
Suppose I'm some scientist who makes a nano-biotech break-through (NBTBT). Then I look at this big pile of overbroad patents of supposed NBTBTs. I must say the thought would cross my mind that I should simply take all my work, and move to a country that is more innovation-friendly rather than a collective bunch of money grabbing litigators.
For the true Einstein like scientist, what would be his/her motivation to stay in a western country? Seriously?
And where do you expect to sell the end product of this research? If you want to sell in the US or Europe, you've got to abide by the patents.
Of course, the obvious comeback to this is that Asia in general and China specifically are the largest growing market, and probably they'd have a more relaxed attitude to drugs developed through such an approach...
What I'd really love to hear is how much they spend on advertisements, versus how much they spend on R&D.
Sales and Marketing outspends R&D by about 2:1 globally in most big Pharma.
Frightened the hell out of me when I discovered this (disclaimer: I work in big Pharma) but it would appear to just be the price of competing in the market - rightly or wrongly...
Slashdot Mirror
...and you won't break the glass on your next one
That would be WinPop.
...works like a charm - enterprise-grade stuff with remote management, single-sign on and 256 it AES encryption across the whole disk (i.e. boot partition too). slows machines down a little, but it definitely does the job. i'd imagine it's expensive, but it does seem to scale up to enterprise size pretty well.
...you're not the sort of muppet who, when his laptop "breaks", thinks "I know, I'll sell it to someone on Ebay and pretend it was still working".
Not everyone is clued up enough to take the HDD out and wipe it in another PC, either and I think we've had demonstrated that the person in question isn't the brightest tool in the box...
Are you posting that from the Victorian era?
We now have Big Brother as one of our most popular TV shows (attention seeking nobodies stuck in a house and monitored live 24/7), the most CCTV in Europe etc...
yes, but we're boycotting Sony this year, aren't we?
...because some /. geek would sue them for it not working in his faraday-cage-lined basement.
perhaps the better reception is because your phone's old enough to do it through brute force and a higher wattage. there's a lot of concern over mobile phone radiation and so handsets now tend to be lower in wattage and more significantly have shaped antennae so they don't radiate towards your head. these two factors tend to have a slightly negative effect on signal strength, particularly now that stubby antennae are unfashionable.
1) RAZRs suck. Hard. They look nice, but the software's appalling: and I mean just in general use as a phone. Ugh. Crappy synch, horrendous UI, stupid menus.
2) Your RAZR's large? The *only* thing it has going for it is the small size and shirt-pocketability.
3) The camera adds approximately 1/10th of a metric bugger-all to the dimensions of your phone. If it's got interference and banding on the image, it's faulty. Most RAZRs don't do this. If you don't like being restricted on where you take it, poke the lens out with a small screwdriver or paint it over black like big corporates with camera restrictions do.
It's not the phone dropping the call - it's the network.
Each GSM cell phone tower can only handle a finite number of calls. Any more than that and you'll either fail to dial a call, or if you're handing over from one cell to another (and remember, GSM cells are quite small on some networks dependant on frequency) then you'll drop the call.
The GSM specs are even bright enough to force dropped calls if a user is in a cell that's full to capacity, and someone dials an emergency number - in this case it'll drop a few calls to let yours through.
You'll notice that some networks advertise their low dropped call rate...
you don't *have* to use it. I recommend it for non-geek users though, as they're the ones who are continually bringing their PCs to me to fix, despite me having put AVG/Spybot etc on and explicitly told them not to install random crap that claims to speed up your internet connection.
Have you found any useful content that hosts file blocks? No, didn't think so. If you had, you'd just comment out that line so you could access it anyway.
It's just another layer of protection.
An analogy might be
"How do I avoid getting an STD from people I sleep with?"
"Ideally you don't sleep with anyone infected. Get them tested. Don't sleep with highrisk groups. Oh, and you might as well wear a condom. It'll lower your risk even if you do those things we told you not to".
The hosts file is the condom: it's not foolproof, but it definitely doesn't hurt. Why would you *not* want to use it on a home PC?
It's not there to be read. It's there so that if someone claims in a court of law that they didn't know they weren't meant to access that system, a lawyer can stand up and say "yes you did: and not only that - you clicked 'continue' to indicate you'd read the MOTD expressly telling you".
agreed. saying that javascript and dhtml are better because they work across all platforms is like saying anal sex is better as it works across all genders...
by the very act of observing quanta, you change them...
I guess...cheers for the headsup. To be honest I've got a short term goal of indexing about 200 books ASAP - and all I want is book name, author, date in a .CSV file - and I'm time-poor, what with having a 2 year old to keep amused, a full time job and a pile of PCs *this high* to fix this week. A windows app would save me a load of time - I'm going to spend most of the free time I've got available getting dusty in the attic, getting the books in range of a laptop, and so whilst Linux is nice'n'all, I'm a bit strapped for the time to play with it.
You know how it is, I've been meaning to check out yet another modern distro again(looks like ubuntu's flavour of the month) but before I switch it's gotta do *everything* my Windows boxes do and I've not got the time to sort this out, either.
My bad, I'd love to spend a week or two tinkering but chances of that happening are pretty slim.....
I'll give a free pro Datalogic USB barcode scanner (I've a few spare ones I acquired ages ago and haven't used) to anyone who can come up with a simple Windows application that reads barcodes, submits them to http://isbndb.com/account/dev/api/20-structure.htm l, and builds a simple text file with all my books in there. I've got hundreds of books to take to the Charity shop, and I'd like to itemise them all - and I can't code for toffee.
Can anyone help me out?
http://www.eblong.com/zarf/bookscan/#quick suggests it's trivial via Perl for those that can use it... barcode AT infobubble DOT co DOT uk if they can...!
what the hell's activation got to do with this? you get an OEM XP cd, and sure, it'll want activating on install on an apple. It'll want reactivating when you've changed enough hardware to warrant 7 "votes" to windows: I'd wager on apple hardware this will be just about never. You're not going to be changing your motherboard, etc. Activation is to stop piracy, not to make it harder to install. Sure, it can be a bit annoying, but get some perspective here.
including a webcam? OMG Ponies! where do i sign?
corporate regulation is understandable in light of dicks like Enron, but it's very very expensive for businesses. Boo-hyphen-hoo, you may say. However, if it costs more for a company to operate, they'll charge more. It'll cost you more as a consumer.
It could be argued that Sarbanes Oxley and the raft of other regulation is overkill. You might argue that companies should have some damn sense of what's right and what isn't, without needing to be regulated down to the tiniest level.
Alternately you could argue that you don't trust any company, and would want them to undergo expensive and painful audits - and that you'd be happy as a consumer to pay for that...
the thing with memory stick was that it was obvious that it was a dumb, lockin idea - even to non geeks.
joe punter could tell straight off that there was no particular reason for sony to make a different shape but electrically-and-functionally-identical memory stick, when they're quite familiar with existing ones like SD and compact flash.
Agreed.
"Biopiracy refers to the "monopolisation of genetic resources" according to the show's organisers. It is also defined as the unauthorised use of biological resources by organisations such as corporations, universities and governments."
Guess the question is, what does it mean by unauthorised? Who's authorising or not authorising here? Do the award givers just mean anyone they don't like? Who are the award givers?
From their own website:
"The Coalition Against Biopiracy is an informal group of civil society and peoples' organizations that first came together at the 1995 Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Jakarta."
This isn't giving me the warm fuzzies yet, don't know about you...still, nice logo of a pirate ship with a barcode on the sail.
Providing a freely searchable, non-patented database of genetic infomation would seem to be extremely charitable from my point of view, and valuable to non-profit and for-profit organisations alike...and indeed something that Google could probably offer significant help to. From the nominations own website: " Google's massive computer power and cutting-edge data-mining capacity make it a logical partner for Craig Venter and his ever-expanding collection of DNA samples taken from humans, animals and microbes living in soil, sea and air" - well, yes, quite. Doesn't make them evil, does it?
It's also not far from the Stanford Folding project which personally I actively support with my CPU time - http://stanford.edu/folding for info.
""Google, in cooperation with Craig Venter, are developing plans to make all of our genomes Googlable to facilitate the brave new world of private genetically-tailored medicines," would seem to be idiocy. What about the human genome project? Do they (I'm still not clear who "they" are in this article, so bear with me) mean they want to stop any and all genetic therapies?
The line "Jim Thomas, from ETC Group, which is one of the organisers behind the awards ceremony, said that Google's recent moves around storing consumer information could land it in hot water with privacy campaigners of all kinds. "The new 'we want to store everyone's information online' mission statement is going to get very controversial if they extend that to genomic information. " suggests that the authors are at best confused. Collaborating on a genomics database is very very different from suggesting that Google are intending to take any individual's personal genetic information and somehow tie it into their browsing habits.
What's more, it's not clear Google are actually doing *anything*:
"The original source for the alleged collaboration between Google and Venter is The Google Story by Pulitzer Prize winner David Vise. However Google has previously refused to comment on the issue and Venter has denied any ongoing relationship. Google did not respond in time for this story."
I'd venture that some relatively unknown pressure group figured that if they intimated Google were doing some shady big brother type operation, they'd get a few headlines...I work for Big Pharma (opinions my own, not representing employer etc etc etc) but I've an open mind and I think this is bollocks...
This is what people just don't seem to get. Email's a part of the whole thing, of course, but it's not what's important.
I know you can run a business on POP3 mail, but for big organisations you want more: you want shared mailboxes, you want shared calendars with meeting requests, you want tasks. You might want single instance storage, and you might want to be able to ensure you can archive mail for x years for SOX compliance. Exchange is very, very good at this. It's not the only solution out there, but it is a good one - obviously MS aren't going to go down well on Slashdot, but Exchange is a very productive bit of software.
This is just plain dumb if you're talking about background AV scanning (although it's a good idea if you're talking standalone scanners). AV works by hooking into the "kernel" if you can call it that of Windows, and two competing products running at the same time will be a) a monster resource hog as they both work around each other, and b) will flag a load of false positives, as the lowlevel operation of an AV program is likely to look like a rootkit or similar to the other AV.
And where do you expect to sell the end product of this research? If you want to sell in the US or Europe, you've got to abide by the patents.
Of course, the obvious comeback to this is that Asia in general and China specifically are the largest growing market, and probably they'd have a more relaxed attitude to drugs developed through such an approach...
Sales and Marketing outspends R&D by about 2:1 globally in most big Pharma.
Frightened the hell out of me when I discovered this (disclaimer: I work in big Pharma) but it would appear to just be the price of competing in the market - rightly or wrongly...