True enough if you change the application to one that would run on Unix, then get money & approval to migrate entire company to Unix..ok, back to reality. The application will not run on Unix. If I had access to an SMS server( to push the application ) or a Windows Terminal server, necessary permissions to the Active Directory infrastructe ( to use GPO to installt the app via Windows Installer service ) that would help. But then again having 2-3 days to install an application I have never heard of before is still quite a request, given the other restrictions - walk-up user requests ( I get several of these every day ), existing ticket queue, weekly reports, other projects, in the process of moving into new office - it is quite a stretch. Heck, these days taking time for a restroom break is quite a stretch, lol.
They may make Linux the standard desktop OS, but as long as they need to develop/market/sell products that run on MS Windows, they will need to run Windows. That said, MS Windows may be running on the developer's second computer, or they can do something like use a terminal server to host their Windows Apps/Products, but they will still be running it.
Virtual Machines are good for the development side in some cases, but they have a high CPU/Memory overhead plus ofter the software costs $$$.
However, if IBM properly publicizes the fact that their defacto workstation OS is Linux, it will definitely have the effects you mentioned above.
Good point. The sites I support have people who depend on macros they inherited / were given by other employees. Some of them are very elaborate, and asking them to rewrite something they have no idea how it was written in the first place is asking a bit much. An asking the IT staff that already has 90+ trouble tickets to handle with some being months old due to number of tickets opened daily plus projects, emergency reports, people walking up and interrupting them with dumb questions, etc, is not practical either.
I.E. an IT infrastructure that is already stretched to its limits buy cost reduction initiatives is not going to learn how to write macros or how to migrate them.
Yes, I am speaking from experience. I get requests like "please install program x on 70 computers in the next couple of days because 70 people are changing jobs, oh, I know you have 87 trouble tickts and IT staff was just moved into its present office and still have stuff to box up and relocate, but this is important!". No warning, no overtime is possible, just somehow make it happen without ignore any of your other responsibilities. Sigh...
Exactly. Most of my aliases are used for receive only, for example the alias for my Amazon.com account recieves shipment notifications and order confirmation emails from them, but I never send e-mails to the Amazon.com myself.
As you pointed out, having to change the "from" address depends on the email client ( script, application, whatever is trying to send out the email the SMTP server ).
I use Ximian Evolution for sending email, and the "from" aka "reply-to" address is set on an per-account basis. This means I either have to go into the settings for my primary (real) account and change it to show the alias every time, or I have to set up an account ( not a real account, just make Evolution think you have one ) with the alias email address as the "reply-to" setting. This lets me select the alias from a pulldown menu when I am sending out an email message. The downside of the second setup is that when I tell Evolution to receive email via my POP3 server ( QPopper ), it will poll the server for email on the non-existent, alias accounts, which wastes time.
If someone knows of a decent email client that can accomplish the same thing except with less hassle, please post it here. Pretty please.:)
I hadn't thought of punishing people who sell the email address by posting their name/contact info on the web. That could catch on and become something of a public "blacklist" database, good idea:)
Well, I had something else to say. Unfortunatel, I can't remember what it is, and I have to go to work.
And here is the problem caused by globalization without a well thought-out and implemented plan -> 50k to a U.S. worker is equal to 10k for a 'foreign' worker due to exchange rate and lower cost of living. See the imbalance? Of course the foreign worker ( assuming similar productivity to U.S. worker ) will be hired by the U.S. employer instead of the U.S. worker - he costs way less!
Now, even if the foreign country opens its market up to U.S. employees, things will not even out because the U.S. workers will still be much more expensive to employee than ones native to it.
From what I pointed out above, it is evident that some way of leveling the playing field between countries must be created for the global economy to work. It needs to carefully planned and then carried out in such a way that all of the countries involved are given a fair shake. This is not a case of U.S. workers being greedy or having inflated expectations, this is a case of jumping off a building without thinking out "how am I going to get down safely?" first.
As a minimum, the U.S. should at least work out agreements with each company it agrees to open its job market to such that there is fair competition. The penalties of not doing so have already been hashed and rehashed by other posts.
If you run the mail server for your domain, then practically any SMTP server can perform this service using what are called "aliases". Personnaly, I run my own domain at home and use the open source SMTP server "postfix" running on RedHat 8.0 to handle the sending and receiving of email. The way it works in postfix is you edit the alias file, adding an entry for the throw-away email address followed by the real email address to deliver the email to. After you are done editiing the file, you run the postalias command to update the aliases database ( postfix read the alias.db file and not the text alias file when making email delivery decisions ). After that is done ( takes 2 seconds for me ), any email send to the throw-away address will be forwarded to the real mailbox you specified.
For people/businesses I work with often, I pretty much keep the alias I gave them on file unless they abuse it ( like sell it or spam it ). Otherwise, will just delete the alias after I am done with it, and then update the database.
Postfix itself has a nice set of anti-spam tools to restrict who it will receive email from and also who it will forward email for. Again, I restrict sending to computers on my home network by IP/Hostname/From/To addresses and it works very well.
Sorry for the long post, but I figure too much information is better than not enough. So I hope this answered your question.
>In science you change the conclusions to fit the >facts; in belief systems you change the facts to >fit the belief.
That may hold in some cases, but not all. If you study enough religions, you will find that some , ( like Islam ) do not allow for "changing" or other manipulation of the facts, and in fact encourage the scientific method as part of their dogma. Example: ( again Islam ) where believers are encouraged to explore creation and discover how everything works.
You may have written this in a hurry, but I wanted to chime in and comment on this part of you post to make sure it was clear that the blanket statement concerning beliefs doesn't hold in all cases.
Yes, I can't remember the name of company, maybe it was good ol' Intertrust who made it. That is the program that depended on 'autoplay' being enabled and when a student published the obvious fact that holding the shift key down when inserting an audio cd ( or any cd, for that matter ) disabled autoplay on Windows, they threatened legal action against the student.
Funny that a multi-million dollar copy protection technology could be so easily defeated. Even funnier was the downward direction of the companies stock after the 'exploit' was discovered. 'exploit' is really to strong a term for it, but that is what the company called it.
And don't buy music from most online music download services either ( that means iTunes , too ), as the RIAA gets ( as per Slashot reporting ) at least 70% of the purchase price as its cut.
They and their member labels probably have some other income streams we can cut off as well. If you know of one, please chime in.:)
True. In addition, it is very like the Blue-ray drives will be dual-laser to enable them to read older formats. In which case the only that may become obsolete is any blank media one has left over from the "old days."
I am glad someone read the story ( email ) instead of just reacting to the poster's notes. I think this is a case of Slashdot editor's testing to see who reads the article before posting a reply. So, those of you who posted "no what are we going to do!" and the "sky is falling!", please note the sudden decrease in your karma. - The Management
Another possibility is they wanted a sensationalist post to get more page hits from the story. No way, even Slashdot is above that...
Read over your own post please. How does filtering spam give you back the lost bandwidth, SMTP server storage space and Processor Time, POP3 server processor time to download the email before you can filter, and not to mention the costs it occurs just for being relayed from the senders SMTP gateway to the unsuspecting recipients SMTP gateway?
Actually, I heard ( here on slashdot ) that file sharing actually increased after the RIAA started its "Grand Inquisition". There were many theories about it following that post, but first, can anyone verify this report(increase in file sharing activity)?
How does MPEG4 compare with XVID as far as compression ratio goes? I have just learned to encode DVD's into this format with XVID as the video codec and ac3 as the audio codec( maintaining Dolby 5.1 format ), but it's still early enough where I might switch given good reason.
On the other hand, XVID is an entirely open spec, GPL'd standard, so then again I might now switch to a closed, retrictively-licensed format, even if it was better.
You really didn't prove your point. You need to look at the definition of stealing both legal and dictionary versions, then compare said definitions with what is involved with downloading a movie over some network ( say, the Internet, a network of networks ), showing where the two match up.
Now, even if you get some kind of correlation between the two, people will argue things like "the law is wrong", "IP isn't real", etc. And you would have to defend your argument against them, or, be proactive and cover those rebuttals in your original statement.
All of that said, phreaking ( using up voice circuits without authorization ) is different than downloading a file over a public network from a willing provider( file sharer )...don't you think?
Hopefully my post comes off as informative instead of overly critical. Also note that I kept my opinion out of it, since I have already posted on this topic numerous times.
Nice post. Where are my mod points when I need them? I think I blew them on that post about the guy who got linux to run on the Energizer bunny...what a waste.
Hmm, or you can use my method. Watch the movie in the theater, then download it so you can be reminded of how good it was until the DVD comes out, then buy it. I like the way LOTR trilogy was handled in that they had extended versions of the film on the DVD release. O.K., they rubbed fans the wrong way the first time with Fellowship Of the Ring DVD releases, but second time clients knew they could either buy the theatre version of the film or wait and get the extended version ). I pat myself on the back for holding out to get the extended DVD release for FOTR and TTT films. I will also wait for the extended version of ROTK before buying, also.
Of course, this all assumes I liked the movie. With some other movies I watched the downloaded version first to see if it was worth my $10 (ticket and soda ). I think we agree, the movie industry needs to make the movie worth seeing in the theatre and the DVD worth buying, and then they will make money on both.
One last note is that I actually prefer to have movies available to view from my hard drive, as I hate popping disks in and out, especially if I am composing my own DVD with a job running 5 hours+ that will keep the DVD drive unavailable.:(
Hmm, instead of paying someone to maintain the code, why don't they just purchase an off-the-shelf application that does the same thing and plus has a support number? ( they of course had better make sure support is part of the package )?
Of course, there is the case of turn-key or customized solutions, but is not the topic of the discussion. It is about companies using existing Free Software ( GPL or otherwise ) and not contributing back anything to the the developers.
With a little research you will see Wine(X) do not emulate anything, they provide libraries of functions that implement the same functionality as the Windows dynamic link libraries ( dll's ). Without them, if a Windows program tries to create a standard MS Window object as part of it's interface, nothing will happen. With them, a Window appears on the users screen.:)
If you sign an NDA they will let you see the legal documents the *prove* they own anything called or related to fat...even the fat that is in the abdominal area! So people have to become anorexic ( probably spelled that wrong ) or pay the M$ tax!
I haven't tried to use rebates for over 5 years now. While are not 100% rip offs, I got burned by enough that were that I decided not to gamble any more and base my purchasing decisions on up-front cost only.
I mean, I still remember the CDR rebate from forever ago where they kept saying they never receive the rebate info so I kept resubmitting copies of the receipt and rebate tag ( since I had sent the originals off the first time, all I had were copies ) until it was past the rebate expiration date. At which time I was told it was too late to cash in on the rebate. Is that lame or what?
Now I shop mostly online and only at sites I have successfully used in the past or I know someone who purchased from them with no problems. Brick and mortar shops are good too, but I totally ignore rebate offers.
Oh, another thing about rebates is that ( I have heard ) pretty much make you jump through hoops to in order to redeem them. Why subject yourself to all that hassle instead of just paying a lower price up front and getting on with your life?
Yes, the new owners have an excellent long term plan, screw as many people as possible to get $$$ in the execs pockets, and then file for bankruptcy shortly before shutting down the company.
Hmm, that sounds like only a short term plan, but the company executives will benefit from it for a long time after they go out of business. In that sense, it is long term.:)
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True enough if you change the application to one that would run on Unix, then get money & approval to migrate entire company to Unix..ok, back to reality. The application will not run on Unix. If I had access to an SMS server( to push the application ) or a Windows Terminal server, necessary permissions to the Active Directory infrastructe ( to use GPO to installt the app via Windows Installer service ) that would help. But then again having 2-3 days to install an application I have never heard of before is still quite a request, given the other restrictions - walk-up user requests ( I get several of these every day ), existing ticket queue, weekly reports, other projects, in the process of moving into new office - it is quite a stretch. Heck, these days taking time for a restroom break is quite a stretch, lol.
They may make Linux the standard desktop OS, but as long as they need to develop/market/sell products that run on MS Windows, they will need to run Windows. That said, MS Windows may be running on the developer's second computer, or they can do something like use a terminal server to host their Windows Apps/Products, but they will still be running it.
:)
Virtual Machines are good for the development side in some cases, but they have a high CPU/Memory overhead plus ofter the software costs $$$.
However, if IBM properly publicizes the fact that their defacto workstation OS is Linux, it will definitely have the effects you mentioned above.
We can only hope the PHB's get the hint.
Good point. The sites I support have people who depend on macros they inherited / were given by other employees. Some of them are very elaborate, and asking them to rewrite something they have no idea how it was written in the first place is asking a bit much. An asking the IT staff that already has 90+ trouble tickets to handle with some being months old due to number of tickets opened daily plus projects, emergency reports, people walking up and interrupting them with dumb questions, etc, is not practical either.
I.E. an IT infrastructure that is already stretched to its limits buy cost reduction initiatives is not going to learn how to write macros or how to migrate them.
Yes, I am speaking from experience. I get requests like "please install program x on 70 computers in the next couple of days because 70 people are changing jobs, oh, I know you have 87 trouble tickts and IT staff was just moved into its present office and still have stuff to box up and relocate, but this is important!". No warning, no overtime is possible, just somehow make it happen without ignore any of your other responsibilities. Sigh...
Exactly. Most of my aliases are used for receive only, for example the alias for my Amazon.com account recieves shipment notifications and order confirmation emails from them, but I never send e-mails to the Amazon.com myself.
:)
:)
As you pointed out, having to change the "from" address depends on the email client ( script, application, whatever is trying to send out the email the SMTP server ).
I use Ximian Evolution for sending email, and the "from" aka "reply-to" address is set on an per-account basis. This means I either have to go into the settings for my primary (real) account and change it to show the alias every time, or I have to set up an account ( not a real account, just make Evolution think you have one ) with the alias email address as the "reply-to" setting. This lets me select the alias from a pulldown menu when I am sending out an email message. The downside of the second setup is that when I tell Evolution to receive email via my POP3 server ( QPopper ), it will poll the server for email on the non-existent, alias accounts, which wastes time.
If someone knows of a decent email client that can accomplish the same thing except with less hassle, please post it here. Pretty please.
I hadn't thought of punishing people who sell the email address by posting their name/contact info on the web. That could catch on and become something of a public "blacklist" database, good idea
Well, I had something else to say. Unfortunatel, I can't remember what it is, and I have to go to work.
Peace.
And here is the problem caused by globalization without a well thought-out and implemented plan -> 50k to a U.S. worker is equal to 10k for a 'foreign' worker due to exchange rate and lower cost of living. See the imbalance? Of course the foreign worker ( assuming similar productivity to U.S. worker ) will be hired by the U.S. employer instead of the U.S. worker - he costs way less!
Now, even if the foreign country opens its market up to U.S. employees, things will not even out because the U.S. workers will still be much more expensive to employee than ones native to it.
From what I pointed out above, it is evident that some way of leveling the playing field between countries must be created for the global economy to work. It needs to carefully planned and then carried out in such a way that all of the countries involved are given a fair shake. This is not a case of U.S. workers being greedy or having inflated expectations, this is a case of jumping off a building without thinking out "how am I going to get down safely?" first.
As a minimum, the U.S. should at least work out agreements with each company it agrees to open its job market to such that there is fair competition. The penalties of not doing so have already been hashed and rehashed by other posts.
If you run the mail server for your domain, then practically any SMTP server can perform this service using what are called "aliases". Personnaly, I run my own domain at home and use the open source SMTP server "postfix" running on RedHat 8.0 to handle the sending and receiving of email. The way it works in postfix is you edit the alias file, adding an entry for the throw-away email address followed by the real email address to deliver the email to. After you are done editiing the file, you run the postalias command to update the aliases database ( postfix read the alias.db file and not the text alias file when making email delivery decisions ). After that is done ( takes 2 seconds for me ), any email send to the throw-away address will be forwarded to the real mailbox you specified.
For people/businesses I work with often, I pretty much keep the alias I gave them on file unless they abuse it ( like sell it or spam it ). Otherwise, will just delete the alias after I am done with it, and then update the database.
Postfix itself has a nice set of anti-spam tools to restrict who it will receive email from and also who it will forward email for. Again, I restrict sending to computers on my home network by IP/Hostname/From/To addresses and it works very well.
Sorry for the long post, but I figure too much information is better than not enough. So I hope this answered your question.
>In science you change the conclusions to fit the >facts; in belief systems you change the facts to >fit the belief.
That may hold in some cases, but not all. If you study enough religions, you will find that some , ( like Islam ) do not allow for "changing" or other manipulation of the facts, and in fact encourage the scientific method as part of their dogma. Example: ( again Islam ) where believers are encouraged to explore creation and discover how everything works.
You may have written this in a hurry, but I wanted to chime in and comment on this part of you post to make sure it was clear that the blanket statement concerning beliefs doesn't hold in all cases.
Yes, I can't remember the name of company, maybe it was good ol' Intertrust who made it. That is the program that depended on 'autoplay' being enabled and when a student published the obvious fact that holding the shift key down when inserting an audio cd ( or any cd, for that matter ) disabled autoplay on Windows, they threatened legal action against the student.
Funny that a multi-million dollar copy protection technology could be so easily defeated. Even funnier was the downward direction of the companies stock after the 'exploit' was discovered. 'exploit' is really to strong a term for it, but that is what the company called it.
And don't buy music from most online music download services either ( that means iTunes , too ), as the RIAA gets ( as per Slashot reporting ) at least 70% of the purchase price as its cut.
:)
They and their member labels probably have some other income streams we can cut off as well. If you know of one, please chime in.
True. In addition, it is very like the Blue-ray drives will be dual-laser to enable them to read older formats. In which case the only that may become obsolete is any blank media one has left over from the "old days."
I am glad someone read the story ( email ) instead of just reacting to the poster's notes. I think this is a case of Slashdot editor's testing to see who reads the article before posting a reply. So, those of you who posted "no what are we going to do!" and the "sky is falling!", please note the sudden decrease in your karma. - The Management
Another possibility is they wanted a sensationalist post to get more page hits from the story. No way, even Slashdot is above that...
Read over your own post please. How does filtering spam give you back the lost bandwidth, SMTP server storage space and Processor Time, POP3 server processor time to download the email before you can filter, and not to mention the costs it occurs just for being relayed from the senders SMTP gateway to the unsuspecting recipients SMTP gateway?
I will tell you, it doesn't.
I am still waiting to try that game out, hehe. Or maybe not, I swore off games a few weeks ago but I still like to read about them. :/
Hmm, did you just say "Wow", or did you say something like "Wow, that is stupid!"?
Actually, I heard ( here on slashdot ) that file sharing actually increased after the RIAA started its "Grand Inquisition". There were many theories about it following that post, but first, can anyone verify this report(increase in file sharing activity)?
How does MPEG4 compare with XVID as far as compression ratio goes? I have just learned to encode DVD's into this format with XVID as the video codec and ac3 as the audio codec( maintaining Dolby 5.1 format ), but it's still early enough where I might switch given good reason. On the other hand, XVID is an entirely open spec, GPL'd standard, so then again I might now switch to a closed, retrictively-licensed format, even if it was better.
You really didn't prove your point. You need to look at the definition of stealing both legal and dictionary versions, then compare said definitions with what is involved with downloading a movie over some network ( say, the Internet, a network of networks ), showing where the two match up.
Now, even if you get some kind of correlation between the two, people will argue things like "the law is wrong", "IP isn't real", etc. And you would have to defend your argument against them, or, be proactive and cover those rebuttals in your original statement.
All of that said, phreaking ( using up voice circuits without authorization ) is different than downloading a file over a public network from a willing provider( file sharer )...don't you think?
Hopefully my post comes off as informative instead of overly critical. Also note that I kept my opinion out of it, since I have already posted on this topic numerous times.
Peace.
Nice post. Where are my mod points when I need them? I think I blew them on that post about the guy who got linux to run on the Energizer bunny...what a waste.
Looks like you have stealing covered. Now, how about copyright violation?
Hmm, or you can use my method. Watch the movie in the theater, then download it so you can be reminded of how good it was until the DVD comes out, then buy it. I like the way LOTR trilogy was handled in that they had extended versions of the film on the DVD release. O.K., they rubbed fans the wrong way the first time with Fellowship Of the Ring DVD releases, but second time clients knew they could either buy the theatre version of the film or wait and get the extended version ). I pat myself on the back for holding out to get the extended DVD release for FOTR and TTT films. I will also wait for the extended version of ROTK before buying, also.
:(
Of course, this all assumes I liked the movie. With some other movies I watched the downloaded version first to see if it was worth my $10 (ticket and soda ). I think we agree, the movie industry needs to make the movie worth seeing in the theatre and the DVD worth buying, and then they will make money on both.
One last note is that I actually prefer to have movies available to view from my hard drive, as I hate popping disks in and out, especially if I am composing my own DVD with a job running 5 hours+ that will keep the DVD drive unavailable.
Hmm, instead of paying someone to maintain the code, why don't they just purchase an off-the-shelf application that does the same thing and plus has a support number? ( they of course had better make sure support is part of the package )?
Of course, there is the case of turn-key or customized solutions, but is not the topic of the discussion. It is about companies using existing Free Software ( GPL or otherwise ) and not contributing back anything to the the developers.
With a little research you will see Wine(X) do not emulate anything, they provide libraries of functions that implement the same functionality as the Windows dynamic link libraries ( dll's ). Without them, if a Windows program tries to create a standard MS Window object as part of it's interface, nothing will happen. With them, a Window appears on the users screen. :)
If you sign an NDA they will let you see the legal documents the *prove* they own anything called or related to fat...even the fat that is in the abdominal area! So people have to become anorexic ( probably spelled that wrong ) or pay the M$ tax!
I haven't tried to use rebates for over 5 years now. While are not 100% rip offs, I got burned by enough that were that I decided not to gamble any more and base my purchasing decisions on up-front cost only.
I mean, I still remember the CDR rebate from forever ago where they kept saying they never receive the rebate info so I kept resubmitting copies of the receipt and rebate tag ( since I had sent the originals off the first time, all I had were copies ) until it was past the rebate expiration date. At which time I was told it was too late to cash in on the rebate. Is that lame or what?
Now I shop mostly online and only at sites I have successfully used in the past or I know someone who purchased from them with no problems. Brick and mortar shops are good too, but I totally ignore rebate offers.
Oh, another thing about rebates is that ( I have heard ) pretty much make you jump through hoops to in order to redeem them. Why subject yourself to all that hassle instead of just paying a lower price up front and getting on with your life?
Yes, the new owners have an excellent long term plan, screw as many people as possible to get $$$ in the execs pockets, and then file for bankruptcy shortly before shutting down the company.
:)
Hmm, that sounds like only a short term plan, but the company executives will benefit from it for a long time after they go out of business. In that sense, it is long term.