Just like now, a large icon will pop up saying...
"For best super experience, upgrade to Windows GoodGood Party 2007!" and you will not be allowed to view whatever "content" they are purveying. I thought that the registration crap was difficult to put up with...but I imagine that this will only put another layer of complexity and slowness between the user and their "experience."
Exactly. The E-Rate program is rife with waste; and the "rural" people that are campaigning for it get a rediculously small part of the pie; most of the money goes to lining the pockets of billion-dollar district connectori, and filling rooms full of Cisco equipment that will never be used. The application procedure is a rediculous, multi-day joke, and an entire industry has grown up around consultants that will sort out the paper for a fee. The time to kill the program is NOW....replace it with a block grant, or, better yet, give everybody a small tax break. It fixes nothing, helps nothing, and in fact is a major impediment to new technology. Schools that could put their money towards fiber or wireless lines are instead shackled to ancient, slow, expensive T1 lines. Remove the government spider webs, and things would change, for the BETTER!
In my school district, we have probably a half a dozen machines running 98, and even a couple running 95. We also have a majority OS 9 Macs, as well as a handful of OS 8 and a smattering of OS 7's. Microsoft, and the rest of the big companies, are in the "Technology Forcing" business. Our machines work, and, barring some miraculous thing people can't live without like teleportation or FTL quantum communication, will continue to do so for many, many years to come. I will only "upgrade" when absolutely forced to.
The vast majority of the area of this district was open-pit coal-mined. The topsoil has long since been turned over, leaving a surface of soil that will hardly grow anything. Even worse, many of the open-pit mines were never re-filled with anything, leaving huge lakes that are home to migratory birds. Over 3000 acres is owned by the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago, Illinois, which trucks sewage sludge from the city and dumps it in some of the aforementioned ponds. Another vast tract is owned by some professional baseball players that use it as a private hunting/fishing/drunking ground. It takes some getting used to, but I'd say that we make do pretty well on 5-year-old equipment and shoestrings. I may not have rows of shiny Dell servers and Cisco switches like other districts, but I have the pride of knowing that I did the job with the resources at hand.
Well my district is in Western Illinois, and has about 500 students. The IT budget is, and has been for three years, ZERO. We get a single grant every year from the Federal Government for about $12,000, which I use to replace some of our 200 computers, and buy a few trinkets for the teachers like LCD projectors and SmartBoards. We get by using Linux for the server (just one, actually a fan-studded $200 Microtel from Walmart,) and either Linux or Windows 2000 on the individual machines, many of which were bought from State Surplus. We run Microsoft Office 2000 on some machines, and OpenOffice on the rest. I am the sole support technician for the district, and I take care of everything from the HVAC to the gym sound system to the lunch accounting. I also work at a second district two half-days a week, but they have consultants that are there the rest of the time. They are a similar-sized school, but their IT budget is in excess of $100,000 a year. It's all about doing what you can with what you have, not demanding that you get more so you can do the same. The area we are in has practically nothing, except 3000 residents. The coal mines have moved out, industry has moved out, and our commercial base consists of bars and gas stations.
E-Rate only pays for discounts on Telecommunications Services, and a few paltry "Internal Connections" to buy routers and servers. The vast majority of the money goes back to the telecom companies, who are happy to lease T1's to school for that purpose...But yes, it is a HUGE waste of money, with money filling everyone's pockets that can get a vendor contract for "support."
Exactly. In my time working with school district (a government entity, of course), consultants will come in and make a big deal about "security", and sell a district a PO a mile long with all sorts of unnecessary crap on it. I have even seen them produce port-scanning logs as evidence of "being hacked." The School Boards will happily hand over $100,000 (in a district with a $2 million yearly budget) to remedy this "security hole." It's the same in the huge government boondoggle of departments and agencies. I'm getting more and more convinced that the coming crisis of the world pulling out of US bond markets is the best thing that could happen; right now this country has unlimited money, and is busy making an unlimited bureaucracy to spend all of it...
That's my contention; "really digging into it" is almost universally required on a Novell system. Where simplicity would suffice, they add overlapping layers of complexity. Along the way of life, I've had to Administrate Windows NT 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 2003, Novell 3, 4, 5, and 6, even a couple of Mac servers running Appleshare and their little user/password/file management system. I've also Administrated/set up machines running various flavors of Linux, Solaris, and BSD. Most of my time is spent on Linux, so perhaps I am biased. But in my experience, performing a simple function on Novell anything is never simple. Take the addition of SP2 to a group of our Novell machines. That instantly broke 100 things in the "Novell Client", which required various holes drilled into the XP firewall. We never did get numerous others to work. My point of view is to keep things as simple as possible, wherever possible. If your bag is complexity, then by all means, go with Novell. But I just have a problem with complexity where simplicity will do.
Novell has blown for so many years that I will never buy another product from them, Linux or not. Have you tried to use the Administrative Tools of Novell 5 or 6? I have never seen a more confused jumble of "things that don't belong" in my life. And did the change that I just made to BorderManager actually go through, or is the system response just slow? And where is a simple ping application? Is this "Remote Access" going to work? Whoops, no, it crashed just after opening. Or did it ever really open? Novell's philosophy has been "security through complexity and obfuscation" for years, and I want no part of it. I can guarantee you the government is getting screwed anytime they come close to Novell.
If it's one thing I have noticed that is similar amongst all of the super-rich, it is an overwhelming belief that they are being stolen from. It pervades every bit of their thinking and actions. They are well aware of the fact that no human being can work honestly and accumulate billions of dollars; they had to, somehow, convince or mislead others into working to line their pockets. Therefore, they are also well aware that people would love to use THEM in a similar manner.
In my experience, nobody wins all of the time. A wonderful Mac user decided to start up an Airport and serve DHCP. He just didn't confine it to the wireless side...watching the stream on the wire, you could see where a machine would ask for an address, and be answered by two DHCP servers. It would reply to both of them, of course, and the DHCP servers would both reply with different addresses. Whichever one was quicker on the draw, served up the address for the client. So about half of the time, the machine would end up with a useless 10.x.x.x address, and the other half of the time, it would get a legitimate 192.168.x.x address...In the end, though, nobody wins!
I was thinking more along the lines of this:
Microsoft, an organization headed by multi-millionaires and billionaires, sees a few "key" individuals as the true strength of an organization, not the underlying masses that actually do the work. So rather than hiring teams of people, or people that can accomplish something, they hire "visionaries" and "leaders." That's my point, rather than "Microsoft hires other company's people."
Microsoft's recent way seems to be hiring what they consider "key" people from other, successful companies, hoping to transplant that success. But as one poster said, they're taking one very large black marker, and leaving the dozens of colored pencils that can produce a beautiful picture. Yahoo's search leaves much to be desired anyway; they should be hiring swaths of Google employees if they are serious.
My point is not that there are people out to "get" other people...my point is that, if there is a security hole, it was not in what they were expending most of their effort in combating. Did they shred, burn, atomize, and scatter every last recepit from the operation? Probably not. Did they make sure nobody was secretly recording Ms. Smith while she read off her personal information to the pharmacist? Probably not, too. It seems so much "security" these days is devoted to expending vast resources on things that make very little difference. As an example, a small airport near me recently built a $500,000 "security fence" to keep out "terrorists." Complete with flashy card readers for the gate and computer accounting. Of course, if you walk 50 feet to the south, you can walk right through a corn field onto the main runway, but hey, it looks good! If people were more intelligent in apportioning their security resources, rather than worrying about ABSOLUTELY atomizing somebody's hard drive, then we'd be money ahead. There's always going to be that.03% on either end of a 6-sigma bell curve...don't worry about it.
With some of the hysteria surrounding security, HIPAA and the like, that isn't far off. I have dealt with a pharmacy, and their security regulations were absolutely insane. They never stand back and look at what they're trying to guard...NOBODY CARES that Granny Smith got her prescription for anti-phlegm medication filled on the 3rd of April. The records in particular that they were guarding in a bomb-proof safe had no personal information on them (beyond name and prescription)...but yet they INSISTED that three backups be made per day, one of which was taken to an off-site location. I would wholeheartedly agree that the best solution would be evaporation in an electron-beam furnace, deposition of the vapor on some copper plates, and their jettisoning into a black hole.
First they find crack in the fuel tank, now they're capping visitors. What's next, a 3-album deal with a major record company, complete with ho's, Crystal and an Escalade?
1000 signatures! Wow! We're at.003 percent of the population! Unfortunately, I believe the various pro-DMCA lobbies have a lot more weight in the form of dollars...a few million Canadian dollars still is a lot of money.
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Just like now, a large icon will pop up saying... "For best super experience, upgrade to Windows GoodGood Party 2007!" and you will not be allowed to view whatever "content" they are purveying. I thought that the registration crap was difficult to put up with...but I imagine that this will only put another layer of complexity and slowness between the user and their "experience."
Exactly. The E-Rate program is rife with waste; and the "rural" people that are campaigning for it get a rediculously small part of the pie; most of the money goes to lining the pockets of billion-dollar district connectori, and filling rooms full of Cisco equipment that will never be used. The application procedure is a rediculous, multi-day joke, and an entire industry has grown up around consultants that will sort out the paper for a fee. The time to kill the program is NOW....replace it with a block grant, or, better yet, give everybody a small tax break. It fixes nothing, helps nothing, and in fact is a major impediment to new technology. Schools that could put their money towards fiber or wireless lines are instead shackled to ancient, slow, expensive T1 lines. Remove the government spider webs, and things would change, for the BETTER!
In my school district, we have probably a half a dozen machines running 98, and even a couple running 95. We also have a majority OS 9 Macs, as well as a handful of OS 8 and a smattering of OS 7's. Microsoft, and the rest of the big companies, are in the "Technology Forcing" business. Our machines work, and, barring some miraculous thing people can't live without like teleportation or FTL quantum communication, will continue to do so for many, many years to come. I will only "upgrade" when absolutely forced to.
Funny, I delete all of my folders before I create them. I figure if it's important, I will look it up in Spotlight.
The vast majority of the area of this district was open-pit coal-mined. The topsoil has long since been turned over, leaving a surface of soil that will hardly grow anything. Even worse, many of the open-pit mines were never re-filled with anything, leaving huge lakes that are home to migratory birds. Over 3000 acres is owned by the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago, Illinois, which trucks sewage sludge from the city and dumps it in some of the aforementioned ponds. Another vast tract is owned by some professional baseball players that use it as a private hunting/fishing/drunking ground. It takes some getting used to, but I'd say that we make do pretty well on 5-year-old equipment and shoestrings. I may not have rows of shiny Dell servers and Cisco switches like other districts, but I have the pride of knowing that I did the job with the resources at hand.
Well my district is in Western Illinois, and has about 500 students. The IT budget is, and has been for three years, ZERO. We get a single grant every year from the Federal Government for about $12,000, which I use to replace some of our 200 computers, and buy a few trinkets for the teachers like LCD projectors and SmartBoards. We get by using Linux for the server (just one, actually a fan-studded $200 Microtel from Walmart,) and either Linux or Windows 2000 on the individual machines, many of which were bought from State Surplus. We run Microsoft Office 2000 on some machines, and OpenOffice on the rest. I am the sole support technician for the district, and I take care of everything from the HVAC to the gym sound system to the lunch accounting. I also work at a second district two half-days a week, but they have consultants that are there the rest of the time. They are a similar-sized school, but their IT budget is in excess of $100,000 a year. It's all about doing what you can with what you have, not demanding that you get more so you can do the same. The area we are in has practically nothing, except 3000 residents. The coal mines have moved out, industry has moved out, and our commercial base consists of bars and gas stations.
E-Rate only pays for discounts on Telecommunications Services, and a few paltry "Internal Connections" to buy routers and servers. The vast majority of the money goes back to the telecom companies, who are happy to lease T1's to school for that purpose...But yes, it is a HUGE waste of money, with money filling everyone's pockets that can get a vendor contract for "support."
My solution is to delete emacs.
Exactly. In my time working with school district (a government entity, of course), consultants will come in and make a big deal about "security", and sell a district a PO a mile long with all sorts of unnecessary crap on it. I have even seen them produce port-scanning logs as evidence of "being hacked." The School Boards will happily hand over $100,000 (in a district with a $2 million yearly budget) to remedy this "security hole." It's the same in the huge government boondoggle of departments and agencies. I'm getting more and more convinced that the coming crisis of the world pulling out of US bond markets is the best thing that could happen; right now this country has unlimited money, and is busy making an unlimited bureaucracy to spend all of it...
That's my contention; "really digging into it" is almost universally required on a Novell system. Where simplicity would suffice, they add overlapping layers of complexity. Along the way of life, I've had to Administrate Windows NT 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 2003, Novell 3, 4, 5, and 6, even a couple of Mac servers running Appleshare and their little user/password/file management system. I've also Administrated/set up machines running various flavors of Linux, Solaris, and BSD. Most of my time is spent on Linux, so perhaps I am biased. But in my experience, performing a simple function on Novell anything is never simple. Take the addition of SP2 to a group of our Novell machines. That instantly broke 100 things in the "Novell Client", which required various holes drilled into the XP firewall. We never did get numerous others to work. My point of view is to keep things as simple as possible, wherever possible. If your bag is complexity, then by all means, go with Novell. But I just have a problem with complexity where simplicity will do.
Novell has blown for so many years that I will never buy another product from them, Linux or not. Have you tried to use the Administrative Tools of Novell 5 or 6? I have never seen a more confused jumble of "things that don't belong" in my life. And did the change that I just made to BorderManager actually go through, or is the system response just slow? And where is a simple ping application? Is this "Remote Access" going to work? Whoops, no, it crashed just after opening. Or did it ever really open? Novell's philosophy has been "security through complexity and obfuscation" for years, and I want no part of it. I can guarantee you the government is getting screwed anytime they come close to Novell.
If it's one thing I have noticed that is similar amongst all of the super-rich, it is an overwhelming belief that they are being stolen from. It pervades every bit of their thinking and actions. They are well aware of the fact that no human being can work honestly and accumulate billions of dollars; they had to, somehow, convince or mislead others into working to line their pockets. Therefore, they are also well aware that people would love to use THEM in a similar manner.
In my experience, nobody wins all of the time. A wonderful Mac user decided to start up an Airport and serve DHCP. He just didn't confine it to the wireless side...watching the stream on the wire, you could see where a machine would ask for an address, and be answered by two DHCP servers. It would reply to both of them, of course, and the DHCP servers would both reply with different addresses. Whichever one was quicker on the draw, served up the address for the client. So about half of the time, the machine would end up with a useless 10.x.x.x address, and the other half of the time, it would get a legitimate 192.168.x.x address...In the end, though, nobody wins!
I was thinking more along the lines of this: Microsoft, an organization headed by multi-millionaires and billionaires, sees a few "key" individuals as the true strength of an organization, not the underlying masses that actually do the work. So rather than hiring teams of people, or people that can accomplish something, they hire "visionaries" and "leaders." That's my point, rather than "Microsoft hires other company's people."
Microsoft's recent way seems to be hiring what they consider "key" people from other, successful companies, hoping to transplant that success. But as one poster said, they're taking one very large black marker, and leaving the dozens of colored pencils that can produce a beautiful picture. Yahoo's search leaves much to be desired anyway; they should be hiring swaths of Google employees if they are serious.
The only three programs you need to know.
I believe that would be iZealot...just as fruity, though.
My point is not that there are people out to "get" other people...my point is that, if there is a security hole, it was not in what they were expending most of their effort in combating. Did they shred, burn, atomize, and scatter every last recepit from the operation? Probably not. Did they make sure nobody was secretly recording Ms. Smith while she read off her personal information to the pharmacist? Probably not, too. It seems so much "security" these days is devoted to expending vast resources on things that make very little difference. As an example, a small airport near me recently built a $500,000 "security fence" to keep out "terrorists." Complete with flashy card readers for the gate and computer accounting. Of course, if you walk 50 feet to the south, you can walk right through a corn field onto the main runway, but hey, it looks good! If people were more intelligent in apportioning their security resources, rather than worrying about ABSOLUTELY atomizing somebody's hard drive, then we'd be money ahead. There's always going to be that .03% on either end of a 6-sigma bell curve...don't worry about it.
With some of the hysteria surrounding security, HIPAA and the like, that isn't far off. I have dealt with a pharmacy, and their security regulations were absolutely insane. They never stand back and look at what they're trying to guard...NOBODY CARES that Granny Smith got her prescription for anti-phlegm medication filled on the 3rd of April. The records in particular that they were guarding in a bomb-proof safe had no personal information on them (beyond name and prescription)...but yet they INSISTED that three backups be made per day, one of which was taken to an off-site location. I would wholeheartedly agree that the best solution would be evaporation in an electron-beam furnace, deposition of the vapor on some copper plates, and their jettisoning into a black hole.
First they find crack in the fuel tank, now they're capping visitors. What's next, a 3-album deal with a major record company, complete with ho's, Crystal and an Escalade?
1000 signatures! Wow! We're at .003 percent of the population! Unfortunately, I believe the various pro-DMCA lobbies have a lot more weight in the form of dollars...a few million Canadian dollars still is a lot of money.
April Fools Day was the 1st...Oh wait, they're serious.
How will Windows Product Activation help us?
We've had it with the April Fools Stuff...It stopped being funny at noon, remember?
He would have read it, but that report won't come out until 2009!