There is a solution... They should be punched if they drop calls. Seriously, just hit them.
I've worked in a call center, I did manager transfers for the last year or so before we were borged, and that was the easiest way to make people truely mad. Anything else was negotiable, fixable... But dealing with someone after they were hung up on was not.
Personally, I like having/. headlines in Trillian...
I don't view the website unless I see a story that looks interesting, and I don't sit here refreshing all day or anything like that either, but it does let me keep relatively up to date.
I just wish I could get more headlines, I often miss them when I'm asleep.
How hard would it be to add a &logtoken and have it generate content based on my personal preferences? And give me a free pageview an hour, after that then bill me a pageview as long as I have them.
As much money as Microsoft has, I'm not convinced that they could take on IBM, and especially not with a "sue them until they scream uncle" tactic, patent issues aside.
That being said, patents would be a bigger challenge for Microsoft, since IBM may well have more on Microsoft then Microsoft has on IBM -- And even if not, Microsoft's own profits could be used against them in a percentage of sales of the offending product type judgement.
Are we talking about deleting a file, or wiping a drive?
If you're talking about wiping a drive, switch to FAT then run all the tools you want. If you're looking to not wreck an existing drive, just remove SOME data, aren't there defrag APIs which can ensure that you're writing to a logical geometry which is known in advance?
As I understand it, any prior art prior to 1 year from the patent date will qualify.
Microsoft could get the patent safe in the knowledge that Microsoft wouldn't challenge the patent even though they had valid prior art.
However if somebody else has a valid challenge to the patent based on prior art which predates the patent by more then one year, it would still be a valid challenge.
For now... However, should somebody else start the fight, I doubt IBM would hesitate to finish it as a reminder to everyone who follows why you don't want to start that fight.
Microsoft might have patented double clicking and task lists, but what good is that if IBM has patented clicking, lists, 0s and 1s organized in a meaningful pattern which stores programs or data files in a compressed or uncompressed fashion, and the use one or more portions of computer related words in the legal and/or tradename of a computer software company?
I'm not aware of any that do at the moment, although it wouldn't surprise me if Exchange does.
Well, other then mine that is -- But in fairness, that only applies when I send out a newsletter (and yes it's a waste of time when I do it that way for what usually amounts to a 5KB message including headers) -- In fairness, my server doesn't do it natively, but I've managed to get it working as a proof of concept in to a closed source SMTP/POP3/IMAP/Webmail server.
Personally, I prefer storing messages in individual RFC822.MSG files rather then an mbox format. My server generates a couple indexes of messages which means that the messages themselves aren't parsed every time the user hits "check mail" in webmail, or accesses the mailbox via POP3/IMAP, the only hit is against the filesystem, and typically most of the file allocation tables stay in the disk cache.
Once you're using individual files, it's relatively simple to create "copies" of messages as hard links rather then actual files. This lets the OS handle the tough stuff, the mail server never knows the difference.
Whether it would scale or not with the mail server's current design, I'm not sure, but I know the developer's ears perked up when I mentioned my own tests using my own delivery agent were successful, and ultimately was just some code to parse the userfile and to create hardlinks, little more then that.
10MB is obscenely small, especially with Exchange, since that suggests you use Outlook and Outlook encourages managers to add images, backgrounds, and tons of other painful useless garbage.
Perhaps what you really need is a more competent admin who is more familiar with Exchange and can run a fully redundant set of distributed mail servers allowing users to keep all their mail in one place, and allowing IT to keep full backups of all email in one place, rather then scattering it around user's hard drives and hoping that they create a backup.
How, pray tell, is a user expected to access the PST on their desktop when they VPN into the office from home? Or when they use a desktop and a laptop?
With a properly designed mail system, only one copy of the message would be stored on disk, with pointers from each mailbox to the single central copy.
This is still RBC. They'll overcorrect for the interest, then eventually refund you the overcorrection if you call to bitch about the $0.02 missing from your account.
Bingo. I'm a Windows guy at this point, but every time a company is forced to change products (for whatever reason, but lack of support is a good one), all alternatives are considered, not just the current vendor.
Xince we're discussing swap vs performance, only change the swap, don't go tweaking other aspects of the system at the same time as reporting back about the swap's effect on performance.
It should be obvious to even the most dimwitted/. reader that if you increase RAM from 256MB to 512MB then you increase performance (where the system was swapping at 256MB, or where that additional RAM can go to a disk cache)
A more interesting question would be at 512MB RAM, does setting swap to 0MB/256MB/512MB make a difference.
When 512MB/0MB vs 256MB/256MB, it should be obvious that 512MB/0MB is better, since you're making the same amount of memory available to the system, and you're increasing the average speed of the memory. However, 512MB/256MB would be better then either of the above.
Maybe, but realistically it would be a challenge if everything was conducted online through a series of 0wn'd proxied, and the actual payment (to the spammer) sent in the form of a postal money order.
I'm not sure about the US, but in Canada I can still get money orders, paid in cash, without showing ID.
Worse, once it happens once, this would become the automatic defense, and the "victim" would surely join OJ in finding the search for the real killer.
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There is a solution... They should be punched if they drop calls. Seriously, just hit them.
I've worked in a call center, I did manager transfers for the last year or so before we were borged, and that was the easiest way to make people truely mad. Anything else was negotiable, fixable... But dealing with someone after they were hung up on was not.
Yeah of course they'd cancel the hourly limit for subscribers :)
What are you saying, all the posts moderated "interesting" aren't?
Personally, I like having /. headlines in Trillian...
I don't view the website unless I see a story that looks interesting, and I don't sit here refreshing all day or anything like that either, but it does let me keep relatively up to date.
I just wish I could get more headlines, I often miss them when I'm asleep.
How hard would it be to add a &logtoken and have it generate content based on my personal preferences? And give me a free pageview an hour, after that then bill me a pageview as long as I have them.
If my "premium charges" you mean that it costs less then POTS by using a lastmile I already pay for, then you're correct.
As much money as Microsoft has, I'm not convinced that they could take on IBM, and especially not with a "sue them until they scream uncle" tactic, patent issues aside.
That being said, patents would be a bigger challenge for Microsoft, since IBM may well have more on Microsoft then Microsoft has on IBM -- And even if not, Microsoft's own profits could be used against them in a percentage of sales of the offending product type judgement.
Well sure, in theory. In practice, the patent office is paid per patent, so they'll probably approve it and let the courts sort it out.
Your tax dollars well spent!
After all that, and only one large nail? You could do a lot better then a single nail, start with a magnet from a subwoofer, or a disk sander.
Are we talking about deleting a file, or wiping a drive?
If you're talking about wiping a drive, switch to FAT then run all the tools you want. If you're looking to not wreck an existing drive, just remove SOME data, aren't there defrag APIs which can ensure that you're writing to a logical geometry which is known in advance?
As I understand it, any prior art prior to 1 year from the patent date will qualify.
Microsoft could get the patent safe in the knowledge that Microsoft wouldn't challenge the patent even though they had valid prior art.
However if somebody else has a valid challenge to the patent based on prior art which predates the patent by more then one year, it would still be a valid challenge.
Since I'm posting on slashdot, IANAL.
For now... However, should somebody else start the fight, I doubt IBM would hesitate to finish it as a reminder to everyone who follows why you don't want to start that fight.
Microsoft might have patented double clicking and task lists, but what good is that if IBM has patented clicking, lists, 0s and 1s organized in a meaningful pattern which stores programs or data files in a compressed or uncompressed fashion, and the use one or more portions of computer related words in the legal and/or tradename of a computer software company?
I'm not aware of any that do at the moment, although it wouldn't surprise me if Exchange does.
.MSG files rather then an mbox format. My server generates a couple indexes of messages which means that the messages themselves aren't parsed every time the user hits "check mail" in webmail, or accesses the mailbox via POP3/IMAP, the only hit is against the filesystem, and typically most of the file allocation tables stay in the disk cache.
Well, other then mine that is -- But in fairness, that only applies when I send out a newsletter (and yes it's a waste of time when I do it that way for what usually amounts to a 5KB message including headers) -- In fairness, my server doesn't do it natively, but I've managed to get it working as a proof of concept in to a closed source SMTP/POP3/IMAP/Webmail server.
Personally, I prefer storing messages in individual RFC822
Once you're using individual files, it's relatively simple to create "copies" of messages as hard links rather then actual files. This lets the OS handle the tough stuff, the mail server never knows the difference.
Whether it would scale or not with the mail server's current design, I'm not sure, but I know the developer's ears perked up when I mentioned my own tests using my own delivery agent were successful, and ultimately was just some code to parse the userfile and to create hardlinks, little more then that.
Let me guess... HP?
10MB is obscenely small, especially with Exchange, since that suggests you use Outlook and Outlook encourages managers to add images, backgrounds, and tons of other painful useless garbage.
Perhaps what you really need is a more competent admin who is more familiar with Exchange and can run a fully redundant set of distributed mail servers allowing users to keep all their mail in one place, and allowing IT to keep full backups of all email in one place, rather then scattering it around user's hard drives and hoping that they create a backup.
How, pray tell, is a user expected to access the PST on their desktop when they VPN into the office from home? Or when they use a desktop and a laptop?
With a properly designed mail system, only one copy of the message would be stored on disk, with pointers from each mailbox to the single central copy.
*shrugs*
I would suggest that you insist on a written apology. Next stop, small claims court for $25 per NSF charge, plus court costs.
This is still RBC. They'll overcorrect for the interest, then eventually refund you the overcorrection if you call to bitch about the $0.02 missing from your account.
Bill doesn't like "free" and hasn't found the subscription option yet
Bingo. I'm a Windows guy at this point, but every time a company is forced to change products (for whatever reason, but lack of support is a good one), all alternatives are considered, not just the current vendor.
Xince we're discussing swap vs performance, only change the swap, don't go tweaking other aspects of the system at the same time as reporting back about the swap's effect on performance.
/. reader that if you increase RAM from 256MB to 512MB then you increase performance (where the system was swapping at 256MB, or where that additional RAM can go to a disk cache)
It should be obvious to even the most dimwitted
A more interesting question would be at 512MB RAM, does setting swap to 0MB/256MB/512MB make a difference.
When 512MB/0MB vs 256MB/256MB, it should be obvious that 512MB/0MB is better, since you're making the same amount of memory available to the system, and you're increasing the average speed of the memory. However, 512MB/256MB would be better then either of the above.
And frankly, they are using the latest technology because thin clients are the future.
And the past.
Could you "save money" by using flash paper?
Yes print.
The document states that "Boise Schiller & Flexner will reimburse all reasonable duplication costs"
Print it. In large font for their tiny little minds.
Privilege isn't the only issue, unless it is somehow relevant to the case, it's still not something FSF has to give out willingly
Maybe, but realistically it would be a challenge if everything was conducted online through a series of 0wn'd proxied, and the actual payment (to the spammer) sent in the form of a postal money order.
I'm not sure about the US, but in Canada I can still get money orders, paid in cash, without showing ID.
Worse, once it happens once, this would become the automatic defense, and the "victim" would surely join OJ in finding the search for the real killer.