Hey- this gives rise to a possibility that in the New Republic, in retaliation for the racism of the Empire, all the humans get killed off.
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But more important than *every other form of communication*? Isn't that a bit of an overstatement?
Recommendations as I hear them:
1. Antivirus on network, server, and client (gee, like you didn't know that)
2. Strong password security on the server.(DUH!)
3. Stability on the server (to protect against DOS attacks).'nother duh
4. Bayesian spam filter on client (not everybody knows this, but it's obvious to any slashdot reader)
His explaination of CallerID was interesting- tracing the packets to make sure mail is coming from where it claims to be coming from. Recommendation for this one- make sure your MX records are up to date.
It ends with a recommendation that no actuall giant killer exists- so we need to use all of these techniques in combination.
Yep- that's what I've got in my house. Of course, the Win98 machine that was the main house controller also went dead 3 months ago and I haven't had time to rebuild it yet- but I'll have *something* up and running for Halloween.
I've got a NAT Router/Firewall (and unlike the other guy replying, I know how NAT works and realize that yes, default format for NAT has to be a firewall, because otherwise the requests to listening servers don't know where to go).
It is humanly impossible for a government office to realistically assess all of human knowledge for prior art. To say otherwise is dishonest.
The key word there is HUMANLY- how hard would it be to use a search engine to come up with a score for each word of technobable on how likely it is to have had prior art, add up the scores, and get a reasonable probability on whether prior art exists or not, then reject patents that have too high of a score? It would then be on the person or corporaiton applying for the patent to prove that there is no prior art.
This may be the oddest use for this yet- but any large file would work >200MB. Set up your Serial port for a slow connection, say 110 baud, then start an ftp transfer in the background of SP2 from one machine to the other. That ought to simulate latency errors just fine.
I'd go one step further- NEVER send a link to SLASHDOT to your BOSS at all- if you see a topic that would interest him/her, drill down and send them a copy of the original article.
If she's a Windows User, I'd recomend an IPAQ with the $50 thumbboard upgrade (the H2200 series is what I use- total cost $350 retail, but you can probably find it in the $250 range online). If she's a Linux or Mac user, then PalmOS is your better bet, and I believe Handspring makes a Visor with thumbboard for under $400.
1. The firewall is not Windows based- so therefore Windows attacks won't work.
2. What little IP stack exists on the Linux based Linksys firewall is most certainly stable.
I always act like my wires are insecure- and no, I don't use netgeer or even the defalt software on the Linksys NAT box). Like I said before- I'm even more limited than you are- I'll allow port 80 but NOT port 443 (except for certain trusted MAC addresses that I type in by hand) and NEVER let people use 25/110 or 587 (if it ain't plaintext web, it's not allowed on my wireless LAN, period).
Comp USA on PDAs, at least under the old plan. I only break the screen once a year or so, and so I've yet to try their new plan which has been outsourced to StuffBak, so YMMV. And I sure don't trust their plans on other items. But I have had great luck with the extended warrenty I bought on my Audiovox Maestro in 2000- from that, $200 later in replacing the warrenty every time, I've had two Maestros and a nice IPAQ 2200 out of the deal. All rather similar in capabilities, except for the Bluetooth upgrade on the IPAQ (Windows CE 2003 requires it). But boy did it work out nice- if I keep good backups on CF card, and break the screen, I don't even need to make it all the way home to get a new one.
The healthcare in Canada and other socialist countries isn't really free, it's paid for by taxes. Why people insist on forgetting that, I don't know.
As to your comment about MSDN, perhaps you have forgotten that some of the higher priced versions come with a full suite of developer tools, that's the reason I subscribe and that's how I get the tools I use to create software for Windows. (Why anybody would do it the other way is beyond me; Visual Studio Archetect costs $1700 anyway, so you might as well get all the extra stuff with it on the 50 or so DVDs it takes to hold it).
Third world software can only really be sourced from pirates until they release a 100 dollar oracle, 50 dollar photoshop and a 20 dollar windows OS.
You see- I'm also an isolationist- I think none of those programs should be available outside of the United States to begin with- and we damn well better not be going outside of the United States for programming those applications either!
You can be guaranteed to find the latest big release on sale round the corner from me in Brazil for a buck fifty & sometimes before the actual launch. When the real thing costs 500 (or 6 minimum monthly wages) you can understand there is a tiny official market here. Windows is more or less freeware in the consumer sector - it is pirated. Anyone below the level of multinational will get an OSS or Shareware solution only if they have too and a pirate installation 1st. Officially priced ware is not on the radar.
As should be the risk of letting your product out of the country- American taxpayers shouldn't have to foot the bill to protect Bill Gates' risky business schemes.
So when it comes to international pricing there is no world market universal price that works - 500 dollars is expensive anywhere and unaffordable for the largest chunk of the world.
Let the rest of the world create their own software then- while paying their own bankers for the priviledge.
I don't care what goes through my connection- as long as they don't try to upload it to my server. Thus the reasoning behind blocking NetBios but not HTTP.
The guy should have had the guts to use his own connection though.
Absolutely- it's the reason I'm still an MSDN "programmer" instead of PHP or even Python (got to learn Python one of these days, but the sample code I've seen so far makes it look like Yet Another Java/C derivitive) is because governments and businesses like to go with name brand no matter how much it costs them.
All my best "killer application" ideas follow this model. But the trick is having enough money to develop the hardware to begin with.
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I'm not a money grubbing capitalist- I have to say that to make software that I create free you have to somehow magically provide me with food, clothing, shelter, medical care, water, my MSDN subscription and a net connection.
Quite possibly. But so what? I made up the three points of Karma lost on this post within the same day. Now if I could only get by the time restrictions on posting. I don't care that I've posted 50 times in the last 24 hours- that's a stupid restriction.
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Worse yet- Episodes 7-9 could be endless parlimentary procedure of resetting up the galactic senate.
Hey- this gives rise to a possibility that in the New Republic, in retaliation for the racism of the Empire, all the humans get killed off.
But more important than *every other form of communication*? Isn't that a bit of an overstatement?
Recommendations as I hear them:
1. Antivirus on network, server, and client (gee, like you didn't know that)
2. Strong password security on the server.(DUH!)
3. Stability on the server (to protect against DOS attacks).'nother duh
4. Bayesian spam filter on client (not everybody knows this, but it's obvious to any slashdot reader)
His explaination of CallerID was interesting- tracing the packets to make sure mail is coming from where it claims to be coming from. Recommendation for this one- make sure your MX records are up to date.
It ends with a recommendation that no actuall giant killer exists- so we need to use all of these techniques in combination.
Yep- that's what I've got in my house. Of course, the Win98 machine that was the main house controller also went dead 3 months ago and I haven't had time to rebuild it yet- but I'll have *something* up and running for Halloween.
I've got a NAT Router/Firewall (and unlike the other guy replying, I know how NAT works and realize that yes, default format for NAT has to be a firewall, because otherwise the requests to listening servers don't know where to go).
It is humanly impossible for a government office to realistically assess all of human knowledge for prior art. To say otherwise is dishonest.
The key word there is HUMANLY- how hard would it be to use a search engine to come up with a score for each word of technobable on how likely it is to have had prior art, add up the scores, and get a reasonable probability on whether prior art exists or not, then reject patents that have too high of a score? It would then be on the person or corporaiton applying for the patent to prove that there is no prior art.
One hell of a long link, showing terrorists blowing up roads to stop shipments of food into Katmundu
Is the one-eyed Mad Karuu there?
This may be the oddest use for this yet- but any large file would work >200MB. Set up your Serial port for a slow connection, say 110 baud, then start an ftp transfer in the background of SP2 from one machine to the other. That ought to simulate latency errors just fine.
That's a good piece of advice. There's no sense in wasting all that appearence of net-savvy or apparent in-depth knowledge of the industry.
Especially given the fact that anybody with an arts degree (especially a Master's of Business ARTS degree) couldn't possibly understand anyway.
Look out for that BORD! It's big and flat! And hey, what's that black humanoid thing on it? A Borg you say? RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
I'd go one step further- NEVER send a link to SLASHDOT to your BOSS at all- if you see a topic that would interest him/her, drill down and send them a copy of the original article.
If she's a Windows User, I'd recomend an IPAQ with the $50 thumbboard upgrade (the H2200 series is what I use- total cost $350 retail, but you can probably find it in the $250 range online). If she's a Linux or Mac user, then PalmOS is your better bet, and I believe Handspring makes a Visor with thumbboard for under $400.
Just think what the overclockers could do with THAT heat sink.
And I've got a slow, slashdotted Infoworld server to throw into the pot!
1. The firewall is not Windows based- so therefore Windows attacks won't work.
2. What little IP stack exists on the Linux based Linksys firewall is most certainly stable.
I always act like my wires are insecure- and no, I don't use netgeer or even the defalt software on the Linksys NAT box). Like I said before- I'm even more limited than you are- I'll allow port 80 but NOT port 443 (except for certain trusted MAC addresses that I type in by hand) and NEVER let people use 25/110 or 587 (if it ain't plaintext web, it's not allowed on my wireless LAN, period).
Comp USA on PDAs, at least under the old plan. I only break the screen once a year or so, and so I've yet to try their new plan which has been outsourced to StuffBak, so YMMV. And I sure don't trust their plans on other items. But I have had great luck with the extended warrenty I bought on my Audiovox Maestro in 2000- from that, $200 later in replacing the warrenty every time, I've had two Maestros and a nice IPAQ 2200 out of the deal. All rather similar in capabilities, except for the Bluetooth upgrade on the IPAQ (Windows CE 2003 requires it). But boy did it work out nice- if I keep good backups on CF card, and break the screen, I don't even need to make it all the way home to get a new one.
The healthcare in Canada and other socialist countries isn't really free, it's paid for by taxes. Why people insist on forgetting that, I don't know.
As to your comment about MSDN, perhaps you have forgotten that some of the higher priced versions come with a full suite of developer tools, that's the reason I subscribe and that's how I get the tools I use to create software for Windows. (Why anybody would do it the other way is beyond me; Visual Studio Archetect costs $1700 anyway, so you might as well get all the extra stuff with it on the 50 or so DVDs it takes to hold it).
Third world software can only really be sourced from pirates until they release a 100 dollar oracle, 50 dollar photoshop and a 20 dollar windows OS.
You see- I'm also an isolationist- I think none of those programs should be available outside of the United States to begin with- and we damn well better not be going outside of the United States for programming those applications either!
You can be guaranteed to find the latest big release on sale round the corner from me in Brazil for a buck fifty & sometimes before the actual launch. When the real thing costs 500 (or 6 minimum monthly wages) you can understand there is a tiny official market here. Windows is more or less freeware in the consumer sector - it is pirated. Anyone below the level of multinational will get an OSS or Shareware solution only if they have too and a pirate installation 1st. Officially priced ware is not on the radar.
As should be the risk of letting your product out of the country- American taxpayers shouldn't have to foot the bill to protect Bill Gates' risky business schemes.
So when it comes to international pricing there is no world market universal price that works - 500 dollars is expensive anywhere and unaffordable for the largest chunk of the world.
Let the rest of the world create their own software then- while paying their own bankers for the priviledge.
I don't care what goes through my connection- as long as they don't try to upload it to my server. Thus the reasoning behind blocking NetBios but not HTTP.
The guy should have had the guts to use his own connection though.
Absolutely- it's the reason I'm still an MSDN "programmer" instead of PHP or even Python (got to learn Python one of these days, but the sample code I've seen so far makes it look like Yet Another Java/C derivitive) is because governments and businesses like to go with name brand no matter how much it costs them.
People know that MS Access will work with Windows XP.
Could have fooled me- my Access 2002 application under XP is the most unstable application that I support. Other than that, I agree.
All my best "killer application" ideas follow this model. But the trick is having enough money to develop the hardware to begin with.
I'm not a money grubbing capitalist- I have to say that to make software that I create free you have to somehow magically provide me with food, clothing, shelter, medical care, water, my MSDN subscription and a net connection.
Quite possibly. But so what? I made up the three points of Karma lost on this post within the same day. Now if I could only get by the time restrictions on posting. I don't care that I've posted 50 times in the last 24 hours- that's a stupid restriction.
It'll get changed- the day a muslim terrorist buys a ticket in the name of T. Ridge and blows up the plane.