Ever heard of "Win the Lottery" stories? Not all of them are made up or trumped up on the evening news. Societies/economies based on human greed and selfishness are not bad.
Dude, I hate to say it, but if the UI is sluggish, your hardware is the problem, not the software. OS X is rather slow on, say, a G3, but if you are running anything modern it is like.....quicksilver.
Talk about a computer that never breaks (completely, that is). It still faithfully runs BASIC cartridges, Jumpman, Crossfire, and Kings Quest (the IBM-released original, at that). At some point in the dim recesses of history it was upgraded from 256k to 640k, allowing it to play even more advanced Sierra adventures for about 30 minutes before overheating and locking up tight.
At this point, I figure it is going to be functional long after I am not....
In fairness, it is 9. But considering the niche fashion design apps we are supporting, it's going to stay that way for some time.....without the benefit of improved hardware to run it on. We do so love Apple's commitment to older (once expensive) hardware. But that is a digression.
It is getting to the point where these clue-less management types are just getting in the way of progress. With all the brainpower of the average slashdot reader (you in the back -- quiet!), someone must know some sure-fire methods of getting people fired. Especially fools with half the intelligence. Manipulating emails, erasing data under their login -- small potatoes, I know, but what does the ambitious geek do to get ahead in this businessperson's world?
I mean, we can all wait 10-20 years for these people to die and/or retire, but I would much prefer removing people, one by one, until we are Manager, by default. Anyone with me out there?
With Samba now (and going to 3.0 soon), you can basically do whatever you need on a corporate network with OS X.
Samba on OSX is great -- if you need to share documents. You cannot launch most any file (or even drag & launch it) from a SMB-mounted drive because whatever bits the OS uses for file identification does not get saved on a Windows filesystem. Even the documents are harder to use -- one can only access them from within the pertinent application, no click-to-open. Very unMaclike.
Microsoft does not want Apple crowding into the corporate market, and I wonder if Apple would rather prefer all Apple enivornments to playing nicely with such an unfriendly neighbor. Interoperability seems oddly handicapped by both parties involved.....
In a building with 500 users, 50 or so of which are Macintosh users, there are 3 technicians. 2 are Windows technicians, 1 is a Macintosh technician. The Macintosh technician is constantly putting out fires whilst the Windows technicians play Red Alert II through the afternoon.
Point is, Macs take a lot of tuning, too. And they are not designed for ease-of-support as they are for ease-of-use. So Windows software may crash more, but when a Mac crashes, it crashes hard. In my experience.
Too late. Even if the FBI/Homeland Security/whomever pushes to have a service like Skype regulated, it is already too late to stop the explosion of encrypted communications. Who is to say that a bunch of radicals cannot create their own messaging application/protocol and use it to communicate, headless of all calls for supervision? Other than blocking protocols universally, or breaking encryption, those agencies are going to have to come to terms with the way things are going to be.
Instead of trying to control the way things turn out to be, they should just deal with it, and make the best with what they've got.
From the article: Mike Nash...added that employees from across the company had been pulled to work on security efforts. -snip-
Now is this in addition to the employees pulled from across the company for last year's Secure Windows Initiative? Looks like that didn't work very well. I have equal expectations for this charade.
It's also a world where movie stars are preeminently qualified to run governments. I think I am officially off democracy now. What America needs now is despotism!
So you are advocating a system in which the rich get to keep their electricity while the poor sit in the dark, throw out their food, and so forth. Real nice of you there -- just the kind of human compassion we find in the free market.
Lots of businesses in NYC had private building generators; they were used to power the oh-so-important foodlights that pollute the night sky over Manhattan. Nothing is more pathetic than seeing an empty office building blazing with light during a blackout. But they have the money to afford it, and by your logic this is totally acceptable.
I thoroughly browsed the book at my local B&N cafe, and recommend it highly. It is a well-written, knowledgable book for admins/techs of intermediate sysadmin skills. I mean truly intermediate, for there are no lengthy chapters on Installing Linux, The History of Unix, The History of the Internet, or any such thing. Just useful instruction, insight into the application and usage of certain software packages, and enough scripts to keep one happy. The author's tone is similarly refreshing, as it avoids the blandness of other (good) tech books I've read.
It is definately on my list of Expensive Books (50. Am I cheap?)to Buy.
Wow. Go out and buy one of them new-fangled Volkswagons now. Hook up your iPod, and then rejoice in the simultaneous consumer organism you receive when your consumption is done in perfect syncronicity!
Not to be overly cynical or anything -- it was the "punk" thing in your sig that did it.
Um, we are talking over a hundred thousand machines here. Ever try to support even a thousand computers without IT staff? I think not. There better be alot of teachers with "Windows trouble-shooting experience" to pull that off without hiring IT staff for every campus.
In this case, he is using his patent as a weapon in the name of Progress. He claims he is doing it to level the browser playing field. So is he right (since his aggression actually serves Progress) or is he wrong?
You are not talking about security, you are talking about authentication. You can still launch a DDOS over an encrypted connection, using a dynamically-allocated IP address. Likewise, you will be able to download an mp3 (or a http page for that matter) using 128-bit encryption. There are basically two choices: give every user a traceably-unique identifier, or just live with the consequences of providing a public service.
Modification of MSGINA is also how many proxy/monitoring systems tie login accounts to IP logs. This way, managers can call up fancy reports of what so-and-so-user does on his/her PC throughout the day.
I can meet someone at a diner, and swap porn and credit card numbers to my hearts content. Should resturant booths come equipped with audio/visual recorders to protect against this threat?
From my own experience, I have heard many formerly-uncaring people react strongly to the lawsuits. Here in NYC, the street rags made a big deal about the 12-year-old-welfare-kid incident, so even the blue-collar types I've talked to now despise the recording industry. At least three people have declared their refusal to buy RIAA products -- and these people are not Slashdot-reading geeks, by far.
Move on? Nonsense. Tell that to the anti-abortionists. Or hypothetically tell it to the abortion doctors who would continue doing their work even if the Supreme Court outlawed it. Some people just realize that, as a whole, Humans Are Dumb, and act accordingly.
I can sum up your arguement as this: Stay inside the box, and move with the herd. No thanks.
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Dude, I hate to say it, but if the UI is sluggish, your hardware is the problem, not the software. OS X is rather slow on, say, a G3, but if you are running anything modern it is like.....quicksilver.
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At this point, I figure it is going to be functional long after I am not....
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I mean, we can all wait 10-20 years for these people to die and/or retire, but I would much prefer removing people, one by one, until we are Manager, by default. Anyone with me out there?
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Samba on OSX is great -- if you need to share documents. You cannot launch most any file (or even drag & launch it) from a SMB-mounted drive because whatever bits the OS uses for file identification does not get saved on a Windows filesystem. Even the documents are harder to use -- one can only access them from within the pertinent application, no click-to-open. Very unMaclike.
Microsoft does not want Apple crowding into the corporate market, and I wonder if Apple would rather prefer all Apple enivornments to playing nicely with such an unfriendly neighbor. Interoperability seems oddly handicapped by both parties involved.....
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Point is, Macs take a lot of tuning, too. And they are not designed for ease-of-support as they are for ease-of-use. So Windows software may crash more, but when a Mac crashes, it crashes hard. In my experience.
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Instead of trying to control the way things turn out to be, they should just deal with it, and make the best with what they've got.
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Now is this in addition to the employees pulled from across the company for last year's Secure Windows Initiative? Looks like that didn't work very well. I have equal expectations for this charade.
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Lots of businesses in NYC had private building generators; they were used to power the oh-so-important foodlights that pollute the night sky over Manhattan. Nothing is more pathetic than seeing an empty office building blazing with light during a blackout. But they have the money to afford it, and by your logic this is totally acceptable.
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It is definately on my list of Expensive Books (50. Am I cheap?)to Buy.
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Not to be overly cynical or anything -- it was the "punk" thing in your sig that did it.
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I can sum up your arguement as this: Stay inside the box, and move with the herd. No thanks.
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You might like it down there, though. You should consider moving.
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