I've been using this http://jodrell.net/projects/mailto which puts your mailto link into a coupla hundred character long javascript. People can still click on the mailto link as per norm, but getting the address from the source is a different matter.
Not only does this just make your customers irritable, it takes the crackers about 3 hours to circumvent the product activation for the warezed version.
Plus, how does this affect tech support? Company I worked for would do win-installs of everything and just let the product install the next time the person logged into their novell account...so if you install photoshop with product activation, do you have it install automatically then you have to get a tech to go set up the activation crap for the user? Kinda borks that whole automation thing.
At the first to break a half km, it deserves some respect
I'm sorry figuring out how to mount a big freakin pole on top of a building isn't exactly worthy of a nobel for physics. Its a cool looking building and all, but its still just a pole. On the other hand, its kinda sad how some people will use anything they can to stick a bit more america bashing in.
'Many of these deals involve investment money from other companies, including Microsoft.'
Wow, so a large company invests capital in other companies...that's a truly revolutionary thing they're doing. It's definately all the evidence you need to come to the conclusion that they're funding SCO. I'm actually suprised it look a day between the announcement that SCO got $50 million and someone came up with good, solid proof that MS was behind it. Mind you, I'm no fan of SCO by any means, but posting an article substantiated by some guy giving it his best guess is Jayson Blair territory.
everytime I go by MTV looking in vain for a video to be shown again and Cribs is on, I don't feel too bad for the rapper with a 10 million dollar house, a 42" plasma tv on every single wall of every single room, 25 pounds of platinum chains, and a few dozen exotic cars that are all pimped out like mad. Just doesn't seem like this rampant piracy is really hurting the record companies / artists all that much.
I'll readily admit that I'm an OS junkie. I have a 1.4ghz workstation, a 233mhz server, and a 500mhz server which all have to endure multiple formats while I try different OS's out. The servers have gone from being Windows2000 Advanced Server to FreeBSD to Mandrake to Debian to Solaris to everything else out there on the market. My workstation has bounced between XP, Windows2000 Pro, and Mandrake.
Let tackle the servers first:
The 233 server was running FreeBSD and the 500 was running Mandrake until just recently when all of the openssl and openssh vulenrabilities started coming out. I go to update the Mandrake server and do urpmi.update -a and urpmi --auto-select and its patched. I got to update the FreeBSD server and spend about an hour trying to figure out how the hell to do it. Ok, slight problem there. There's probably some easy way to do it that I'm completely missing, but oh well. So that server's Mandrake again. If I can't find easy to read instructions on the FreeBSD site about how to update it, I'm not gonna mess with it. Enough about that. Lets move onto the workstation:
The workstation is an AMD1.4ghz with 1gb of ram and 500gb of hard drive space. It has a Geforce2 MMX400 and a Soundblaster Live card. I was getting tired of all of the windows garbage and thought I'd try running Linux on it. Naturally, I chose Mandrake. The install went ok except that the soundcard didn't work correctly. It detected the correct card, but was using the wrong driver for it. Changed that, no big deal. Now the problem lies in that I can't play any of my games, use photoshop, forte agent, etc. Ok, maybe installing mandrake wasn't such a hot idea. Let's goto XP. Install is a breeze etc, the only problem is that XP is insane. I have a lot of different folders that I was explorer to remember the view settings for...the folder is a list, this one is thumbnails, etc. Nope, that was too much for it. It decided that random folders should just be tiles, or large icons, or thumbnails where they shouldn't be, etc. Annoying. So, now its Windows2000 Pro again. As much as I like linux for my servers, etc...its just not very good as a desktop OS. Mainly this is the software vendors fault for not releasing linux compatible stuff, I know...but wishing it existed doesn't make it any easier to load photoshop in Linux, so I have to stick to windows.
This woman at my wife's work got an email where they were selling Photoshop for $40. Quite the bargain, eh? So of course she went and got the director of the company's credit card # and went ahead and ordered it. Amazingly enough, five months later, Photoshop still hasn't come in the mail.
So, in answer to your questions, stupid people make it worth while, and there's no shortage of those.
On my site maybe 1% of users use something other than IE. And this is an anime site with users from all over the world, so I think its a fairly decent cross section. Most ppl use whatever Dell or Sony or whoever put on their desktop and don't know that there are other browsers out there. So...pretty much just IE.
If the pricing per seat per year is still $100, I don't see a whole trove of enterprises converting their entire camp over to this product. Especially with all the recent poor press Sun has gotten about being half-dead etcetera, I don't see many IT ppl being able to convince their boss to go with a company that he probably read about in the morning's paper as being about to collapse.
I really doubt Linux will be very popular until Joe-Sixpack can take his copy of trophy-bass fishing and put it in the cdrom, have it autorun and install, and play seamlessly. And if you're the average windows user looking to experiment, then Knoppix works just fine. I don't see this being the magic bullet to make Linux the desktop fav of the average user.
Ok, I'm sorry, but I really don't see how this is newsworthy. Is getting everyone to press the play button on the projector a great feat of technology or something?
Now I can sue apache for that horrible advertising page that informs me I've successfully installed the apache server and welcomes me to my new home in cyberspace.
You'd probably get a lot less hacking / script kiddies if they knew that on first offense they'd goto jail. I'm sure that giving them carte blanche to do whatever they want will greatly reduce the amount of hacking.
not to troll here, but you can't run all over the media making anti-war statements then not expect the military to do something to your funding. I mean, come on, duh. Would you buy a car from a salesman that was ranting about how crappy a driver you are?
I run a few domains off my verizon dsl account and there's a few ISPs out there I can't send mail to. Most notably my folks who are on a bellsouth dsl account. Kinda funny given that bellsouth and verizon are the same company. Most businesses I don't have a problem sending to, just a few major ISPs that prohibit me from sending mail. There again, the amount of spam I get relayed from dsl / cable accounts, I really can't blame them. I learned the hard way about having my smtp configured improperly after I ended up being a spam relay for about 1700 email messages. And I consider myself to be pretty technically proficient, but I screwed up. Every day someone from portugal or x-istan scans my smtp to look for a relay, so the spammers know dsl hosts are easy targets. As much as it pains me to say, I think aol was right on this one.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been using this http://jodrell.net/projects/mailto which puts your mailto link into a coupla hundred character long javascript. People can still click on the mailto link as per norm, but getting the address from the source is a different matter.
Note to self: Never run benchmarking tests on live webserver
Not only does this just make your customers irritable, it takes the crackers about 3 hours to circumvent the product activation for the warezed version.
Plus, how does this affect tech support? Company I worked for would do win-installs of everything and just let the product install the next time the person logged into their novell account...so if you install photoshop with product activation, do you have it install automatically then you have to get a tech to go set up the activation crap for the user? Kinda borks that whole automation thing.
At the first to break a half km, it deserves some respect
I'm sorry figuring out how to mount a big freakin pole on top of a building isn't exactly worthy of a nobel for physics. Its a cool looking building and all, but its still just a pole. On the other hand, its kinda sad how some people will use anything they can to stick a bit more america bashing in.
'Many of these deals involve investment money from other companies, including Microsoft.'
Wow, so a large company invests capital in other companies...that's a truly revolutionary thing they're doing. It's definately all the evidence you need to come to the conclusion that they're funding SCO. I'm actually suprised it look a day between the announcement that SCO got $50 million and someone came up with good, solid proof that MS was behind it. Mind you, I'm no fan of SCO by any means, but posting an article substantiated by some guy giving it his best guess is Jayson Blair territory.
I hope disney does a wide theatre release for it a few days after it goes on sale to DVD like they did with Spirited Away. That was swell.
everytime I go by MTV looking in vain for a video to be shown again and Cribs is on, I don't feel too bad for the rapper with a 10 million dollar house, a 42" plasma tv on every single wall of every single room, 25 pounds of platinum chains, and a few dozen exotic cars that are all pimped out like mad. Just doesn't seem like this rampant piracy is really hurting the record companies / artists all that much.
Depends, you ever met someone who was a journalism major who was ultra bright?
actually, yes, I believe that was the reason given. They probably didn't want some challenger-esque footage following their future attempts.
...does this have to do with technology? Idiots.
I'll readily admit that I'm an OS junkie. I have a 1.4ghz workstation, a 233mhz server, and a 500mhz server which all have to endure multiple formats while I try different OS's out. The servers have gone from being Windows2000 Advanced Server to FreeBSD to Mandrake to Debian to Solaris to everything else out there on the market. My workstation has bounced between XP, Windows2000 Pro, and Mandrake.
Let tackle the servers first:
The 233 server was running FreeBSD and the 500 was running Mandrake until just recently when all of the openssl and openssh vulenrabilities started coming out. I go to update the Mandrake server and do urpmi.update -a and urpmi --auto-select and its patched. I got to update the FreeBSD server and spend about an hour trying to figure out how the hell to do it. Ok, slight problem there. There's probably some easy way to do it that I'm completely missing, but oh well. So that server's Mandrake again. If I can't find easy to read instructions on the FreeBSD site about how to update it, I'm not gonna mess with it. Enough about that. Lets move onto the workstation:
The workstation is an AMD1.4ghz with 1gb of ram and 500gb of hard drive space. It has a Geforce2 MMX400 and a Soundblaster Live card. I was getting tired of all of the windows garbage and thought I'd try running Linux on it. Naturally, I chose Mandrake. The install went ok except that the soundcard didn't work correctly. It detected the correct card, but was using the wrong driver for it. Changed that, no big deal. Now the problem lies in that I can't play any of my games, use photoshop, forte agent, etc. Ok, maybe installing mandrake wasn't such a hot idea. Let's goto XP. Install is a breeze etc, the only problem is that XP is insane. I have a lot of different folders that I was explorer to remember the view settings for...the folder is a list, this one is thumbnails, etc. Nope, that was too much for it. It decided that random folders should just be tiles, or large icons, or thumbnails where they shouldn't be, etc. Annoying. So, now its Windows2000 Pro again. As much as I like linux for my servers, etc...its just not very good as a desktop OS. Mainly this is the software vendors fault for not releasing linux compatible stuff, I know...but wishing it existed doesn't make it any easier to load photoshop in Linux, so I have to stick to windows.
Or maybe now is the time to get a nice Mac.
He seemed less than stunned by the notion that a product advertised via spam might not be all that it was claimed to be
So wait a minute...my herbal viagra may not actually work...what a letdown...literally.
This woman at my wife's work got an email where they were selling Photoshop for $40. Quite the bargain, eh? So of course she went and got the director of the company's credit card # and went ahead and ordered it. Amazingly enough, five months later, Photoshop still hasn't come in the mail.
So, in answer to your questions, stupid people make it worth while, and there's no shortage of those.
yeah, that's taken into account in the percentages. Only IE and the newest Konqueror are able to handle DIV classes in CSS correctly.
On my site maybe 1% of users use something other than IE. And this is an anime site with users from all over the world, so I think its a fairly decent cross section. Most ppl use whatever Dell or Sony or whoever put on their desktop and don't know that there are other browsers out there. So...pretty much just IE.
If the pricing per seat per year is still $100, I don't see a whole trove of enterprises converting their entire camp over to this product. Especially with all the recent poor press Sun has gotten about being half-dead etcetera, I don't see many IT ppl being able to convince their boss to go with a company that he probably read about in the morning's paper as being about to collapse.
I really doubt Linux will be very popular until Joe-Sixpack can take his copy of trophy-bass fishing and put it in the cdrom, have it autorun and install, and play seamlessly. And if you're the average windows user looking to experiment, then Knoppix works just fine. I don't see this being the magic bullet to make Linux the desktop fav of the average user.
Ok, I'm sorry, but I really don't see how this is newsworthy. Is getting everyone to press the play button on the projector a great feat of technology or something?
Now I can sue apache for that horrible advertising page that informs me I've successfully installed the apache server and welcomes me to my new home in cyberspace.
I was gonna go ahead and get this and the optional Brooklyn Bridge package they're selling.
I'm thinking masterbation in space must be a messy thing. Literally.
You'd probably get a lot less hacking / script kiddies if they knew that on first offense they'd goto jail. I'm sure that giving them carte blanche to do whatever they want will greatly reduce the amount of hacking.
not to troll here, but you can't run all over the media making anti-war statements then not expect the military to do something to your funding. I mean, come on, duh.
Would you buy a car from a salesman that was ranting about how crappy a driver you are?
ahh, nothing like working for the govt, where the first tech bubble burst is still 20 some odd years in the future. Gotta love the pace of the govt.
I run a few domains off my verizon dsl account and there's a few ISPs out there I can't send mail to. Most notably my folks who are on a bellsouth dsl account. Kinda funny given that bellsouth and verizon are the same company. Most businesses I don't have a problem sending to, just a few major ISPs that prohibit me from sending mail. There again, the amount of spam I get relayed from dsl / cable accounts, I really can't blame them. I learned the hard way about having my smtp configured improperly after I ended up being a spam relay for about 1700 email messages. And I consider myself to be pretty technically proficient, but I screwed up. Every day someone from portugal or x-istan scans my smtp to look for a relay, so the spammers know dsl hosts are easy targets. As much as it pains me to say, I think aol was right on this one.