I'm gonna miss SCO and Darl McBride. They've kept me laughing and entertained on a daily basis. I mean, where else can you get a company that drags IBM to court and demands that they prove their case for them. Or contends that the GPL is unconstitutional. I mean, these guys are the comic relief of the computer industry.
I did contracting work for the government and most of the blame lies in trying to do anything with a couple of goverment employees in charge of what actually gets done. The stereotype of them being lazy and generally slow to get anything accomplished is absolutely correct. When you mix a fast paced IT world with a "I can coast until retirement" attitude you get bad things happening. The other half of the problem is the users who put the password for their windows login and dialin on a stickynote on top of the laptop. On the other hand, any of the actual critical servers were well monitored and they would track down any breakin attempts, etc.
Believe it or not, not everyone uses linux. Winamp was for a long time the best media player for windows. It was light-weight and robust...it did what is was supposed to well and didn't try to take on lots of other functions (ala winamp3.) Hopefully the XMMS dev team will get some strays and release a nice windows port.
Seems like a lot of companies would migrate towards Mandrake. Its built off redhat and they don't charge you to keep your machine secure, which is one of the things I've always disliked about redhat.
changes don't normally come from within when people get shot for saying anything against the government. Students tried making changes...Tianaman Square not ring a bell?
...by the time Longhorn comes out the whole blog thing will have died. Here's a sample from a CNN article a few weeks ago....
There are over 4 million blogs on the net, more than half run by teenagers. Research group Perseus says the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who updates it about twice a month. Sites such as Diaryland and Blogspot make it easy for anyone to launch one. Even AOL is hosting web logs, a sign that this trend has hit the big time. There are predictions the net will be littered with 5 million blogs by the end of the year. But unlike www.bigwhiteguy.com most of them will be little seen, if not abandoned. At least two thirds of the blogs out there today have not been updated in months.
So does the company that runs slashdot have an obscene amount of stock in Redhat or something? This is like the fifth outright trolling news story they've had today. And yes, I know I'll get modded down to infinity for posting something that's not bashing MS or Gates or saying Torvalds can walk on water.
I kinda wish they'd zoomed out a bit so you could get a perspective of how big the computers are. Or at least had something next to them so you could judge their size.
Most people still identify napster with getting free if not illegal mp3s. I think trying to keep the name was a bad marketing idea. Most people won't be able to figure out why they should buy downloads to something they thought was free. Keep the technology, change the name.
I don't even see anything in the article about this being implemented in the US. I'm sure the Japanese would like to have something like this to stop some of the flow of Opiates from China. Most of which are brought in by "mules." And if it is used in the US...so what? Don't try importing a coupla kilos of cocaine. The easiest way to not be bothered by this technology is not to traffic in drugs. Pretty simple eh?
Its good to see CodeWeavers adding more application support to their product. I've used it for a bit but had a lot of trouble with applications simply vanishing (I assume they crashed) while working with them, or just had very slow performance. Its fun to play around with, but I'd be hung from the nearest rafter if I tried instituting this in a corporate environment.
I mean, seeing a huge conspiracy in disallowing "/teeball/iraq"? While it is a weird robots.txt, I don't think there's a buncha guys running around in dark suits with ear-pieces trying to suppress your freedoms and hiding truth by limiting webcrawlers. Seriously, go get some help.
From a CNN article today: There are over 4 million blogs on the net, more than half run by teenagers. Research group Perseus says the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who updates it about twice a month.
Sites such as Diaryland and Blogspot make it easy for anyone to launch one. Even AOL is hosting web logs, a sign that this trend has hit the big time.
There are predictions the net will be littered with 5 million blogs by the end of the year.
But unlike www.bigwhiteguy.com most of them will be little seen, if not abandoned. At least two thirds of the blogs out there today have not been updated in months.
Having people link to images on my sites regularly for their blog backgrounds, I get to see some interesting usage on them (this was before I stopped inline linking due to bandwidth consumption). For instance, the person who writes the blog goes to it far more often than anyone ever views it. I can see this by tracing the hostname back to the protected member area where they add to the blog (on sites such as Xanga and AsianAvenue, etc). Many of the bloggers have never even had a visitor to their site aside from themselves.
So, I think that spamming to these is an incredibly poor choice. Most of the blogs out there are either abandoned or hardly ever updated, this seems like it would be incredibly time consuming for a spammer to have to hunt down the active blogs to spam. Doesn't seem like this would reach them the same sort of mass audience as spamming email or even usenet. Just my.02
I don't see anything terribly wrong with helping the teachers keep track of kids. Imagine a few hundred kids on a field trip to a museum. It'd be a lot easier and safer if the kids were all tagged so if they went out of a certain perimeter the chaperones could go find them right away. There also wouldn't be the problem of continuous head counts or leaving someone behind. Tagging kids is a bit weird, but the world's gotten more than a bit weird. Parents are lojacking their children now, after all. RFID tagging older kids seems a bit pointless though.
After all, going public did wonders for Yahoo, right? I'm fearing the day that the Google homepage will look like Yahoo's. Yahoo has 3,413 characters of text on the frontpage, quite a bit of which is ads, while Google has 199. I know that google is sensitive about this, but when you sell stock and have investors calling the shots on what you do, you lose your say in the matter.
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Windows normally won't do all of those things so long as its updated as well. Security is only as good as how often the users patch.
yeah, I can definately see Microsoft needing to get money by hocking gator ads. Being a zealot is fine, but try being a bit realistic now and then.
I'm gonna miss SCO and Darl McBride. They've kept me laughing and entertained on a daily basis. I mean, where else can you get a company that drags IBM to court and demands that they prove their case for them. Or contends that the GPL is unconstitutional. I mean, these guys are the comic relief of the computer industry.
I did contracting work for the government and most of the blame lies in trying to do anything with a couple of goverment employees in charge of what actually gets done. The stereotype of them being lazy and generally slow to get anything accomplished is absolutely correct. When you mix a fast paced IT world with a "I can coast until retirement" attitude you get bad things happening. The other half of the problem is the users who put the password for their windows login and dialin on a stickynote on top of the laptop. On the other hand, any of the actual critical servers were well monitored and they would track down any breakin attempts, etc.
Believe it or not, not everyone uses linux. Winamp was for a long time the best media player for windows. It was light-weight and robust...it did what is was supposed to well and didn't try to take on lots of other functions (ala winamp3.) Hopefully the XMMS dev team will get some strays and release a nice windows port.
Yeah, you hardly see any of the three of those sitting for long periods of time.
It doesn't matter if the domain is parked or serving thousands of pages...domains are just as easily parked on IIS as on Apache.
Seems like a lot of companies would migrate towards Mandrake. Its built off redhat and they don't charge you to keep your machine secure, which is one of the things I've always disliked about redhat.
everyone's just sick of reality tv
changes don't normally come from within when people get shot for saying anything against the government. Students tried making changes...Tianaman Square not ring a bell?
...by the time Longhorn comes out the whole blog thing will have died. Here's a sample from a CNN article a few weeks ago....
There are over 4 million blogs on the net, more than half run by teenagers. Research group Perseus says the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who updates it about twice a month. Sites such as Diaryland and Blogspot make it easy for anyone to launch one. Even AOL is hosting web logs, a sign that this trend has hit the big time. There are predictions the net will be littered with 5 million blogs by the end of the year. But unlike www.bigwhiteguy.com most of them will be little seen, if not abandoned. At least two thirds of the blogs out there today have not been updated in months.
So does the company that runs slashdot have an obscene amount of stock in Redhat or something? This is like the fifth outright trolling news story they've had today. And yes, I know I'll get modded down to infinity for posting something that's not bashing MS or Gates or saying Torvalds can walk on water.
...their hardware is always really nice.
I kinda wish they'd zoomed out a bit so you could get a perspective of how big the computers are. Or at least had something next to them so you could judge their size.
Most people still identify napster with getting free if not illegal mp3s. I think trying to keep the name was a bad marketing idea. Most people won't be able to figure out why they should buy downloads to something they thought was free. Keep the technology, change the name.
I don't even see anything in the article about this being implemented in the US. I'm sure the Japanese would like to have something like this to stop some of the flow of Opiates from China. Most of which are brought in by "mules." And if it is used in the US...so what? Don't try importing a coupla kilos of cocaine. The easiest way to not be bothered by this technology is not to traffic in drugs. Pretty simple eh?
Its good to see CodeWeavers adding more application support to their product. I've used it for a bit but had a lot of trouble with applications simply vanishing (I assume they crashed) while working with them, or just had very slow performance. Its fun to play around with, but I'd be hung from the nearest rafter if I tried instituting this in a corporate environment.
I mean, seeing a huge conspiracy in disallowing "/teeball/iraq"? While it is a weird robots.txt, I don't think there's a buncha guys running around in dark suits with ear-pieces trying to suppress your freedoms and hiding truth by limiting webcrawlers. Seriously, go get some help.
From a CNN article today:
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There are over 4 million blogs on the net, more than half run by teenagers. Research group Perseus says the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who updates it about twice a month. Sites such as Diaryland and Blogspot make it easy for anyone to launch one. Even AOL is hosting web logs, a sign that this trend has hit the big time. There are predictions the net will be littered with 5 million blogs by the end of the year. But unlike www.bigwhiteguy.com most of them will be little seen, if not abandoned. At least two thirds of the blogs out there today have not been updated in months.
Having people link to images on my sites regularly for their blog backgrounds, I get to see some interesting usage on them (this was before I stopped inline linking due to bandwidth consumption). For instance, the person who writes the blog goes to it far more often than anyone ever views it. I can see this by tracing the hostname back to the protected member area where they add to the blog (on sites such as Xanga and AsianAvenue, etc). Many of the bloggers have never even had a visitor to their site aside from themselves.
So, I think that spamming to these is an incredibly poor choice. Most of the blogs out there are either abandoned or hardly ever updated, this seems like it would be incredibly time consuming for a spammer to have to hunt down the active blogs to spam. Doesn't seem like this would reach them the same sort of mass audience as spamming email or even usenet. Just my
You know, if the government was really so interested in knowing what you were doing, they have these things called "satellites"...
Yeah, good idea, if you don't agree with the prices of things in stores you should just steal 'em.
I don't see anything terribly wrong with helping the teachers keep track of kids. Imagine a few hundred kids on a field trip to a museum. It'd be a lot easier and safer if the kids were all tagged so if they went out of a certain perimeter the chaperones could go find them right away. There also wouldn't be the problem of continuous head counts or leaving someone behind. Tagging kids is a bit weird, but the world's gotten more than a bit weird. Parents are lojacking their children now, after all. RFID tagging older kids seems a bit pointless though.
After all, going public did wonders for Yahoo, right? I'm fearing the day that the Google homepage will look like Yahoo's. Yahoo has 3,413 characters of text on the frontpage, quite a bit of which is ads, while Google has 199. I know that google is sensitive about this, but when you sell stock and have investors calling the shots on what you do, you lose your say in the matter.
coolest thing I could buy since that elevator pass in high school...oh, wait...