What this says is that the Times, and I suspect, most other newspapers realize that they are in the same business as TV and as such, their prattling ideological talking head agitprop is more valuable as a commodity than the actual news. This is a very sound business decision.
Because I have to work with this stuff in a corporate environment my biggest practical concern is that we have specific requirements that it will not be possible to address once we are death marched off the MS land for AV.
I guess the most depressing aspect of this is that I put almost no credibility in most of the statements MS makes. If they are succesful then it will be a weak middling product that probably focuses on protecting MS OS's and applications exclusively, probably will interfere with everyone else's products and will most likely be several years and several releases late. On the other hand it will probably wind up being 'free' as in you don't have to pay for it directly but because it will be cancerously embedded in the OS it will help keep the price of MS products absurdly high. And last but not least, the list of security patches for the AV tool itself will be extensive. Plus you can figure that it will absolutely crash Firefox and Openoffice.
Seriously at what point do you have to run something wonderful for ordinary office desktop apps like SOT/LBA FC3? How much pain are you willing to suffer?
Can you imagine the American version of this? There would be two versions; free + 24.95/month for internet service or the Premium version $400 + 99.95 month including phone, iTunes and a hundred other things you don't need.
India will eat our lunch because they stay focused on the goal instead of stupid glittery Paris Hilton tech like we do.
Pretty much anything you can plug in and break by non explosive traditionally military means seems to fit their definition. Like when ChoicePoint was 'hacked' and it turned out that they were defrauded of assets just like any other scam cyber or not.
That's hysterical. Yankee is the 'techie' Gartner and both of them are so far up Bill Gates' ass, professionally and financially they're painting the employees like the Little Purple Pill for acid reflux.
There has been a nonresident commuter tax for NYC for decades. It's about half the regular resident income tax rate for NYC.
Well all I can say is that between double taxes and the gloating pride that downstaters have in their astronomical housing prices more and more people will refuse to move and work there. And now it seems that people won't want to work for companies that 'do business' there regardless of where they live.
BTW what does a "NY company" mean. I work for a large company incorporated in NYS. Does that mean if I work from home, my remote office away from my normal office in North Carolina that I have to pay taxes to NYS as well?
It's hysterically funny that America's bastion of antiglobalist, hate America, rah rah terrorism, trust fund birkenstock cafe communist fanboy shitheads gets owned. Put that in your mocha double latte slave free tofu sandal, hippie!
Seriously - Slackware is proud of being obtuse, difficult, arcane and priestly. Gnome will only make Slackware head in the direction of ease of use and commonality that all the other distros are heading toward and Slackware wants to keep true to it buck the trend roots. And with Gnome there are few opportunities for Slacknauts to tell everyone else "You WILL learn the distro."
Honestly does any of this make the activities of using your computer to help you use it better, easier more efficiently and more elegant or trouble-free? Of course it doesn't. It's happy trash with more better bigger boobs.
First off McIrvine only works for Tivoli so what he's selling is a toolkit you can retrofit into a hosting farm.
Next he's talking about a SERVICE so that if IGS hosts a customer, it's 99% likely that the customer will have a domain of customername.com not ibm.com. The spam fighter will originate from customername.com. So if some other source detects that the spam fighter is spam only that domain will get hammered.
This is a wonderful suggestion which is why every nerd and geek who furiously insists on porting Linux to a parking meter he stole at the last Trekkie convention will object to it.
Sure. If I could get every single page in Ohio to link to me my rankings would be schwweeeeeeeet! Or if I could get Yahoo to include a link to me......woo hoo!
Problem is that none of that is practical or realistic, is it?
Go to iDot and order a Linspire Webstation, add some extra RAM and a hard drive and you have a "Starter Edition" PC for about $275. It does everything a "Starter Edition" Windows PC can do. There is no law of physics, computing or economics that dictates what the price of MS should be or what the price to functions relationship should be.
I have a bunch of Win XPhome, Pro and W2K boxes @ home, fully patched, personal firewalled, my router screens what it can, in fact it blocks most every port and tosses pings from both sides. There's antispyware and AV scanners running on all desktops. And brute force scans for virus and all other malware kick off weekly. The uplink is cable (shared). Am I contaminated? You betcha. I can run any spyware tool @ random and find something and once a month I trap a virus either in the browser cache or the jpi cache on one or all of these machines.
Shit I forgot why I wrote this - oh yeah. What is the definition of "GOOD"? So while there 1.2 globzigillion zombies out there, what is the likelihood you're actually clean? I'd say damn near zero.
I fail to see why one can't have a zero button mouse that simply executes the appropriate action after a predefined delay. After all, many of us have happily lived with X windows auto focus to foreground for years with no obvious detriment.
Make Printing or CUPS work. Period. Don't make me fuck with it. Just make it work. And have more drivers than 10 yer old HP laserjets.
Have an installation proc that CLEARLY tells you what it requires of your disk partition and CLEARLY tells you what it's going to ignore.
Get mouse support in X to work better. Seriously, anyone who who builds a distro where the installation fails because of a fucking minor mouse configuration glitch in X should be shot.
We don't need 4 or 5 6 windows managers. We need X term, K, and a lighterweight one like fluxbox or ICEWM but not both and absolutely either put all of the same apps in all the menus or strip them all down to minimum.
Create the ability to change screen res on the fly w/o forcing a shutdown/restart of X and PLEASE indicate that settings you have already stored will not work if in fact they will not work.
Application installation apps need to have clearer discriptive lines of WHAT they do. Calling something "Monkeysoutmyass+glb.flx.x86windget.v.11.110.9.1.1.23bmourning_becomes_electra" does not help me in the fucking least.
Put applets that manage devices in ONE PLACE. ONE. not two not three. ONE.
You need:
one office suite one IM client for AOL/Yahoo. etc. one IRC one image management app one burner one real/quicktime/etcetera one file manager
You need to make the appearance of the filesystem in the file manager MORE simple not LESS simple. if that means making a linear type arrangement like windows then so be it.
It's one thing to say this law does no actual harm but unless it demostrates actual provable goodness or utility then it has not a single reason to exist in the first place and would eventually be subject to abuse.
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What this says is that the Times, and I suspect, most other newspapers realize that they are in the same business as TV and as such, their prattling ideological talking head agitprop is more valuable as a commodity than the actual news. This is a very sound business decision.
Because I have to work with this stuff in a corporate environment my biggest practical concern is that we have specific requirements that it will not be possible to address once we are death marched off the MS land for AV.
I guess the most depressing aspect of this is that I put almost no credibility in most of the statements MS makes. If they are succesful then it will be a weak middling product that probably focuses on protecting MS OS's and applications exclusively, probably will interfere with everyone else's products and will most likely be several years and several releases late. On the other hand it will probably wind up being 'free' as in you don't have to pay for it directly but because it will be cancerously embedded in the OS it will help keep the price of MS products absurdly high. And last but not least, the list of security patches for the AV tool itself will be extensive. Plus you can figure that it will absolutely crash Firefox and Openoffice.
Seriously at what point do you have to run something wonderful for ordinary office desktop apps like SOT/LBA FC3? How much pain are you willing to suffer?
Can you imagine the American version of this? There would be two versions; free + 24.95/month for internet service or the Premium version $400 + 99.95 month including phone, iTunes and a hundred other things you don't need.
India will eat our lunch because they stay focused on the goal instead of stupid glittery Paris Hilton tech like we do.
Pretty much anything you can plug in and break by non explosive traditionally military means seems to fit their definition. Like when ChoicePoint was 'hacked' and it turned out that they were defrauded of assets just like any other scam cyber or not.
That's hysterical. Yankee is the 'techie' Gartner and both of them are so far up Bill Gates' ass, professionally and financially they're painting the employees like the Little Purple Pill for acid reflux.
There has been a nonresident commuter tax for NYC for decades. It's about half the regular resident income tax rate for NYC.
Well all I can say is that between double taxes and the gloating pride that downstaters have in their astronomical housing prices more and more people will refuse to move and work there. And now it seems that people won't want to work for companies that 'do business' there regardless of where they live.
BTW what does a "NY company" mean. I work for a large company incorporated in NYS. Does that mean if I work from home, my remote office away from my normal office in North Carolina that I have to pay taxes to NYS as well?
It's hysterically funny that America's bastion of antiglobalist, hate America, rah rah terrorism, trust fund birkenstock cafe communist fanboy shitheads gets owned. Put that in your mocha double latte slave free tofu sandal, hippie!
Seriously - Slackware is proud of being obtuse, difficult, arcane and priestly. Gnome will only make Slackware head in the direction of ease of use and commonality that all the other distros are heading toward and Slackware wants to keep true to it buck the trend roots. And with Gnome there are few opportunities for Slacknauts to tell everyone else "You WILL learn the distro."
Honestly does any of this make the activities of using your computer to help you use it better, easier more efficiently and more elegant or trouble-free? Of course it doesn't. It's happy trash with more better bigger boobs.
First off McIrvine only works for Tivoli so what he's selling is a toolkit you can retrofit into a hosting farm.
Next he's talking about a SERVICE so that if IGS hosts a customer, it's 99% likely that the customer will have a domain of customername.com not ibm.com. The spam fighter will originate from customername.com. So if some other source detects that the spam fighter is spam only that domain will get hammered.
This is a wonderful suggestion which is why every nerd and geek who furiously insists on porting Linux to a parking meter he stole at the last Trekkie convention will object to it.
Sure. If I could get every single page in Ohio to link to me my rankings would be schwweeeeeeeet! Or if I could get Yahoo to include a link to me......woo hoo!
Problem is that none of that is practical or realistic, is it?
Don't you people coordinate paid placements?
It's really amazing how amusingly intolerant /. has become. Oh Boo Hoo, you're better then me.
Go to iDot and order a Linspire Webstation, add some extra RAM and a hard drive and you have a "Starter Edition" PC for about $275. It does everything a "Starter Edition" Windows PC can do. There is no law of physics, computing or economics that dictates what the price of MS should be or what the price to functions relationship should be.
I have a bunch of Win XPhome, Pro and W2K boxes @ home, fully patched, personal firewalled, my router screens what it can, in fact it blocks most every port and tosses pings from both sides. There's antispyware and AV scanners running on all desktops. And brute force scans for virus and all other malware kick off weekly. The uplink is cable (shared). Am I contaminated? You betcha. I can run any spyware tool @ random and find something and once a month I trap a virus either in the browser cache or the jpi cache on one or all of these machines.
Shit I forgot why I wrote this - oh yeah. What is the definition of "GOOD"? So while there 1.2 globzigillion zombies out there, what is the likelihood you're actually clean? I'd say damn near zero.
or we could call them farkers cus those people are all tools.
I fail to see why one can't have a zero button mouse that simply executes the appropriate action after a predefined delay. After all, many of us have happily lived with X windows auto focus to foreground for years with no obvious detriment.
Seriously why is this here?
Which says: You Make HULK AnnnnnGRRyyyyyy!!!!!! ARRRRRRRRGGGGG!!!!!
When Google gives away free sex then I'll pay attention.
Make Printing or CUPS work. Period. Don't make me fuck with it. Just make it work. And have more drivers than 10 yer old HP laserjets.
1 .23bmourning_becomes_electra" does not help me in the fucking least.
Have an installation proc that CLEARLY tells you what it requires of your disk partition and CLEARLY tells you what it's going to ignore.
Get mouse support in X to work better. Seriously, anyone who who builds a distro where the installation fails because of a fucking minor mouse configuration glitch in X should be shot.
We don't need 4 or 5 6 windows managers. We need X term, K, and a lighterweight one like fluxbox or ICEWM but not both and absolutely either put all of the same apps in all the menus or strip them all down to minimum.
Create the ability to change screen res on the fly w/o forcing a shutdown/restart of X and PLEASE indicate that settings you have already stored will not work if in fact they will not work.
Application installation apps need to have clearer discriptive lines of WHAT they do. Calling something "Monkeysoutmyass+glb.flx.x86windget.v.11.110.9.1.
Put applets that manage devices in ONE PLACE. ONE. not two not three. ONE.
You need:
one office suite
one IM client for AOL/Yahoo. etc.
one IRC
one image management app
one burner
one real/quicktime/etcetera
one file manager
You need to make the appearance of the filesystem in the file manager MORE simple not LESS simple. if that means making a linear type arrangement like windows then so be it.
Make applications uninstallers obvious.
It's one thing to say this law does no actual harm but unless it demostrates actual provable goodness or utility then it has not a single reason to exist in the first place and would eventually be subject to abuse.