While blogspam does suck to an extent, I like [original] blog postings the best. Most of the stuff I write is my own content. That's the type of content I like to read from other people's blogs. I absolutely hate seeing an article posted, going to it, getting to the bottom of the first page, and seeing that I have 7 more pages to read. ARGGG! I immediately close the site. I'm not reading that; I refuse to. If you can't get your thoughts out in one page, I don't want to read them.
Google does everything better, end of story. First there was Infoseek, now Google Search. First there was Mapquest, now there's Google Maps. First there was Hotmail, now there is GMail. Each time Google enters a market, they make a better product than what is currently available. When they stop doing stuff better than everyone else, then I'll stop using their services.
I agree with the "keep them involved" idea. However, you are also correct that they do not know what they want. Bottom line is, those computers are not their personal computers. When they were hired, they, like myself, should have signed many papers, one of which basically says that absolutely nothing you do at work is private. Whether they like it or not, it's not their call.
We use Altiris where I work. Through Altiris we have two different ways of controlling a computer. First, through the Notification Server, is Carbon Copy. This is done via webpage and can be configured to prompt the user to choose whether to allow someone to connect or not. Second, through the Deployment Console, is Remote Control. This is a high-bandwidth feature with no user prompting. Basically the last resort. Either way, you should devise a plan to explain to them how this is necessary.
I don't mean to sound stupid or anything, but your assumption of:
someone might be able to Google it
is overassumptive (yes, I like to create my own words). Pulling from my experience with students I lived with in the college dorm and the general userbase I have to support now, no one even knows that you can get tech information from Google. I know, it sounds ridiculous. But most people think Google is just a way to find recipes or driving directions. When a computer breaks, no one (other than us techies) automatically thinks, "Google." This is especially true with the majority of Dell's userbase.
Although the post referred to the client, not the service, I will respond to your post anyway. All of the features you like are already in one service, Jabber. Jabber is open-source, so you can configure an internal Jabber server for your company. I am my company's Jabber admin (among many other things) and it's great. I am auth'ing to AD (which means I don't need to keep a database of Jabber users) and the Jabber backend is MySQL (basically to keep track of rosters and such). You can run it on Linux or Windows and there are many many free clients to use with it.
Someone around here mentioned Google Talk. GT is Jabber.
You might be thinking, but Jabber is so different and no one uses it. Well, using Jabber's s2s module, you can have a gateway to an AIM server so your internal Jabber users can also talk to AIM users. Pretty slick. Of course, all of this depends on your company's firewall, but judging from the submitter's statements of using every service under the sun, it doesn't seem their firewall is too tight...
I know this isn't the place to ask, but I would really appreciate if anyone out there who has gotten celestia to work could make an inclusive rpm, no dependencies. I am all for tinkering with software installs on linux (core 3) and trying to get this stuff to work, but for some reason i'm not feelin it tonight.
Obviously the balance point is at geosynchronous orbit, and in order to achieve that with this space elevator the midpoint where the stress is would end up being, in Layman's terms, "where the earth's atmosphere meets space." I know that's not exactly correct, but it gives the general idea to people who don't understand geosynchronous orbit...
Actually, I think this was talked about on here before. If be tethered, you mean anchored to the ground, I'm pretty sure you're wrong because the actual "thing" that would hold the space elevator in place are equal distances of carbon nanotubes (or whatever they decide to make it out of) inside the atmosphere and outside (in space). This will allow gravity to do it's thing and make the stress point at the center (where the earth's atmosphere meets space). This would also imply geosynchronous orbit... Of course, I am not an expert on any of this, but this is what I understand so far...
Well, I agree that the 30" is awesome, however there are two downsides to it.
First, you are locked in to a certain type of video card. This beast needs a card that can has two outputs, one for odd lines and one for evens. Right now I think there are 3 cards that do this. So if this monitor ever breaks, you'll need not only another monitor, but another video card if you want to work in the time it takes to get a replacement.
Second, there are no aux inputs. The dell 24" widescreen has inputs for almost everything. The apple can only be used on a computer.
I would like to have 30" sitting right in front of me staring me in the face, but it's not worth it.
I whole heartedly concur. I own the 24" widescreen (and even convinced two of my friends to buy it also). It's freakin awesome. 1920x1200 on an active matrix LCD, you can't beat it. It's so bright and crisp. It's also rated as the best gaming LCD. Get this monitor. You won't regret it.
One tool I find extremely useful is the Linux Password Disk. It will boot a linux kernel and rewrite the Windows registry files to change the local Administrator password if it's forgotten.
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> My guess is that the author of the article is a deranged luntac who _wants_ his menus below his buttons
Your guess is freakin' dumb. I can understand taking guesses at things if you're not priviliged enough to have the beat of IE7 in front of you, but do not call anyone a "deranged luntac," especially since you meant to say "deranged lunatic," without knowing _ANY_ facts at all.
I am all for people talking about products, bashing them, coming up with new ideas and better ways of doing things, but you did nothing of the sort.
I would like to point out that IE7, like IE6 sucks. I was actually expecting something novel. I don't like the address bar and tabs being fixated. I can go down a list of stuff they screwed up, or just plain never fixed from old versions, but I won't. This post will be too long. All Microsoft is trying to do is get people back who have switched to other browsers by adding tabs, and try to impress everyone by adding this anti-phishing mechanism, which 99% of the people using IE don't understand anyway. This, of course, is the reason why they're impressed. I give IE7 two thumbs down. I am actaully rather disappointed. The next thing (which is still downloading) is Vista. I sure hope this will give me some glimmer of hope.
First, the firewall. The Windows firewall is a good thing. No company worth it's salt doesn't have a border firewall, either hardware or a secure *nix machine. That said, the Windows firewall is a good thing to protect against internal attacks. It's configurable by group policy across an Active Directory domain. Thus it's a good third layer of security (the second being ACL's on the routers and switches).
As for Remote Desktop, it can be a good thing. Yes, on client machines it shoudl be disabled (via GP) however being able to use it for tech support purposes is great.
Good point. I didn't think of that. The first thing that came to my mind when I read your comment, though, was, "Which is worse, copying and pasting a URL from a 3-rd party app into FF, or being slammed with pop-ups." I've gotten used to not having 3-rd party apps open links for me. I'll either right-click and copy link location, or something similar. Yeah, it sucks, and it should "just work," but I'd rather do that than have 1 popup.
I'm not sure about the rest of you/.'ers, but ever since I started using firefox with tabbed browsing, I have NEVER opened a second new FF window. I feel that somewhere in the code there should only be one way to open a new FF window, Right click > open link in new window. Maybe that shouldn't be the only way, but I think if it's limited in a manner like that, it would be impossible for popups to happen. Yes, that would mean disabling tags with the target pointing to _new and such, but I think it's worth it.
That's true. But default NAT firewalls only help with the normal way zombies infect PC's. They don't protect against someone clicking malformed links and downloading spyware, which in turn makes you what you thought you were protected against.
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You have no idea how much I laughed after reading that. The voices and everything were perfect in my head!
While blogspam does suck to an extent, I like [original] blog postings the best. Most of the stuff I write is my own content. That's the type of content I like to read from other people's blogs. I absolutely hate seeing an article posted, going to it, getting to the bottom of the first page, and seeing that I have 7 more pages to read. ARGGG! I immediately close the site. I'm not reading that; I refuse to. If you can't get your thoughts out in one page, I don't want to read them.
You could use this:
How to be nice
Thanks for being a dick. Maybe a little explanation instead of your put-downs would have been more helpful.
I have mod points, but there is no "-1 dumbass" mod.
Google does everything better, end of story. First there was Infoseek, now Google Search. First there was Mapquest, now there's Google Maps. First there was Hotmail, now there is GMail. Each time Google enters a market, they make a better product than what is currently available. When they stop doing stuff better than everyone else, then I'll stop using their services.
I agree with the "keep them involved" idea. However, you are also correct that they do not know what they want. Bottom line is, those computers are not their personal computers. When they were hired, they, like myself, should have signed many papers, one of which basically says that absolutely nothing you do at work is private. Whether they like it or not, it's not their call.
We use Altiris where I work. Through Altiris we have two different ways of controlling a computer. First, through the Notification Server, is Carbon Copy. This is done via webpage and can be configured to prompt the user to choose whether to allow someone to connect or not. Second, through the Deployment Console, is Remote Control. This is a high-bandwidth feature with no user prompting. Basically the last resort. Either way, you should devise a plan to explain to them how this is necessary.
I don't mean to sound stupid or anything, but your assumption of:
someone might be able to Google it
is overassumptive (yes, I like to create my own words). Pulling from my experience with students I lived with in the college dorm and the general userbase I have to support now, no one even knows that you can get tech information from Google. I know, it sounds ridiculous. But most people think Google is just a way to find recipes or driving directions. When a computer breaks, no one (other than us techies) automatically thinks, "Google." This is especially true with the majority of Dell's userbase.
No. No you should not.
Java is the slowest, junkiest language around.
Although the post referred to the client, not the service, I will respond to your post anyway. All of the features you like are already in one service, Jabber. Jabber is open-source, so you can configure an internal Jabber server for your company. I am my company's Jabber admin (among many other things) and it's great. I am auth'ing to AD (which means I don't need to keep a database of Jabber users) and the Jabber backend is MySQL (basically to keep track of rosters and such). You can run it on Linux or Windows and there are many many free clients to use with it.
Someone around here mentioned Google Talk. GT is Jabber.
You might be thinking, but Jabber is so different and no one uses it. Well, using Jabber's s2s module, you can have a gateway to an AIM server so your internal Jabber users can also talk to AIM users. Pretty slick. Of course, all of this depends on your company's firewall, but judging from the submitter's statements of using every service under the sun, it doesn't seem their firewall is too tight...
I know this isn't the place to ask, but I would really appreciate if anyone out there who has gotten celestia to work could make an inclusive rpm, no dependencies. I am all for tinkering with software installs on linux (core 3) and trying to get this stuff to work, but for some reason i'm not feelin it tonight.
Obviously the balance point is at geosynchronous orbit, and in order to achieve that with this space elevator the midpoint where the stress is would end up being, in Layman's terms, "where the earth's atmosphere meets space." I know that's not exactly correct, but it gives the general idea to people who don't understand geosynchronous orbit...
Actually, I think this was talked about on here before. If be tethered, you mean anchored to the ground, I'm pretty sure you're wrong because the actual "thing" that would hold the space elevator in place are equal distances of carbon nanotubes (or whatever they decide to make it out of) inside the atmosphere and outside (in space). This will allow gravity to do it's thing and make the stress point at the center (where the earth's atmosphere meets space). This would also imply geosynchronous orbit... Of course, I am not an expert on any of this, but this is what I understand so far...
Well, I agree that the 30" is awesome, however there are two downsides to it.
First, you are locked in to a certain type of video card. This beast needs a card that can has two outputs, one for odd lines and one for evens. Right now I think there are 3 cards that do this. So if this monitor ever breaks, you'll need not only another monitor, but another video card if you want to work in the time it takes to get a replacement.
Second, there are no aux inputs. The dell 24" widescreen has inputs for almost everything. The apple can only be used on a computer.
I would like to have 30" sitting right in front of me staring me in the face, but it's not worth it.
I whole heartedly concur. I own the 24" widescreen (and even convinced two of my friends to buy it also). It's freakin awesome. 1920x1200 on an active matrix LCD, you can't beat it. It's so bright and crisp. It's also rated as the best gaming LCD. Get this monitor. You won't regret it.
One tool I find extremely useful is the Linux Password Disk. It will boot a linux kernel and rewrite the Windows registry files to change the local Administrator password if it's forgotten.
z ip
The bootable CD image is here:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/cd050303.
> My guess is that the author of the article is a deranged luntac who _wants_ his menus below his buttons
Your guess is freakin' dumb. I can understand taking guesses at things if you're not priviliged enough to have the beat of IE7 in front of you, but do not call anyone a "deranged luntac," especially since you meant to say "deranged lunatic," without knowing _ANY_ facts at all.
I am all for people talking about products, bashing them, coming up with new ideas and better ways of doing things, but you did nothing of the sort.
I would like to point out that IE7, like IE6 sucks. I was actually expecting something novel. I don't like the address bar and tabs being fixated. I can go down a list of stuff they screwed up, or just plain never fixed from old versions, but I won't. This post will be too long. All Microsoft is trying to do is get people back who have switched to other browsers by adding tabs, and try to impress everyone by adding this anti-phishing mechanism, which 99% of the people using IE don't understand anyway. This, of course, is the reason why they're impressed. I give IE7 two thumbs down. I am actaully rather disappointed. The next thing (which is still downloading) is Vista. I sure hope this will give me some glimmer of hope.
ACPI is the devil. Especially for FreeBSD 5+. It will not boot on some laptops unless you specifically disable ACPI.
Not necessarily... You can change the registry key that turns RDP on on the remote machine and force a service restart...
First, the firewall. The Windows firewall is a good thing. No company worth it's salt doesn't have a border firewall, either hardware or a secure *nix machine. That said, the Windows firewall is a good thing to protect against internal attacks. It's configurable by group policy across an Active Directory domain. Thus it's a good third layer of security (the second being ACL's on the routers and switches).
As for Remote Desktop, it can be a good thing. Yes, on client machines it shoudl be disabled (via GP) however being able to use it for tech support purposes is great.
Good point. I didn't think of that. The first thing that came to my mind when I read your comment, though, was, "Which is worse, copying and pasting a URL from a 3-rd party app into FF, or being slammed with pop-ups." I've gotten used to not having 3-rd party apps open links for me. I'll either right-click and copy link location, or something similar. Yeah, it sucks, and it should "just work," but I'd rather do that than have 1 popup.
I'm not sure about the rest of you /.'ers, but ever since I started using firefox with tabbed browsing, I have NEVER opened a second new FF window. I feel that somewhere in the code there should only be one way to open a new FF window, Right click > open link in new window. Maybe that shouldn't be the only way, but I think if it's limited in a manner like that, it would be impossible for popups to happen. Yes, that would mean disabling tags with the target pointing to _new and such, but I think it's worth it.
That's true. But default NAT firewalls only help with the normal way zombies infect PC's. They don't protect against someone clicking malformed links and downloading spyware, which in turn makes you what you thought you were protected against.