Catch Up? Like gone past? I hate outlook and outlook express. At my real job, I have to use Outlook.
At my consulting Job I use evolution. Ah so much better. Then I have to go out and support (I do IT support) for outlook. YUCK. Express was better. Made more sense. When is MS gonna learn that there should be 2 ways to do things: Wizards for the lame, and straight forward for us techs?
I agree that some apps can take longer to load with Linux. However, many can be preloaded, but you have to know how, and I wouldnt expect anyone to know how right off the bat.
BUT:: And this is the biggest BUT ever, one that I have gotten my linux users to understand:
In windows, you are used to using an app, then shutting it down.
Not so with Linux. I teach them to USE the multiple desktops. Put a mail app on one, put a writer (say OO.org) on another, put a browser on yet another. LEAVE THEM OPEN and running. Do not shut them down.
With linux there is no need to close these apps! You leave them on.
With the distro's I have been using, I can even tell them its ok to shut down their computers if they feel so compelled at the end of the day.
Next day, they restart and all their apps reappear where they were before.
Well Windows server 2003, was handed out on a trial basis to our team. It was not a beta, just an expiring over time trial. Well we crashed it using explorer. We found bugs all over the place. Yes it did have better security, mostly from not turning on services automatically, but compared to linux or bsd, all the little wizards were annoying and a waste of time.
We used it for awhile, it crashed way too much, we thought faulty hardware. SO we put knoppix on (cause thats just so easy) statrted a few services and found the machine stable while using it at the same time.
I was not impressed. We took the cds and sent them to a horrible fiery death.
Thanks I agree. I am amazed I got a 5 informative with a wrong URL. Thanks for the support. This worm is not coded very smart, but its effective. I have extremely enjoyed this little known thread, those guys are way smarter then I.
Still I was smart enough to be using Linux, and I was more then annoyed that my internet was down, while the help line told me to patch windows, which 1. Does not apply to me and 2. No one could get the patch if their internet was down.
Stupid comcast. I should know better. Whats even funnier, is that when I went to my office using a dsl connection, it was faster then ever, due to the crash of all the cable providers. I had a good laugh.
I am sorry I cant mod you up. I agree, patches from MS have often caused more trouble then they are worth. I have seen this happen, and then I get the shit for it. What am I supposed to do?
Well everything off is a good idea for a server. YOU should make the choices to turn anything on, and YOU should know why you did. The port this worm attacked has no justification for the home user. This is the same port that annoys most users of Win XP, but they dont know it. The only reason MS should have allowed this to be turned on was for administration on a LOCAL network.
By the way I can make win 2003 server crash in minutes if I am allowed to be a user on it. Shame, its not that much better, but leaving ports closed is a good idea, and a long idea comming.
I am running Susu 8.2 on this laptop. I plugged in a harddrive in a usb/firewire drive case via usb. su mount/dev/sda/ mnt/usbdrive worked fine. Switched it to firewire. su mount/dev/sda/mnt/usbdrive. Worked fine. Whats the problem then?
Who wouldnt be mad at the US for thier policies? But to conspire against the US to hurt civilians? He is going down. Thats not the way we do things here.
Ok so I have had it. Using a dictionary (computer based), and a web browser, and a little programming, isnt it possible I could write a program to use random key words to do a patent search, and then have the results of non patented key words using phrases in a sort of smart order like noun, adjective, adverb, noun, or something like that to figure out all the non patented combinations and then submit those? Like: computer bottling swiftly beer?
I appreciate your well written, rational response to my somewhat top of my head rant that I tend to write.
That said, you do make a good point. In this society there is reality (now) and the dream of utopia - impossible. However, I still stand by my point that the thing we pay for is the service of seeing the movie in the way it was intended, ie in a theatre, with a crowd, on a big screen, with surround. One can argue that they can do this at home, but I would say that some of the experience is lost. I am disturbed by the trend of our society becomming more and more shaped by products (movies in this case) that define our culture, yet we cant "own" them. In the past, this was not always the case, the tales told were for the people, retold by the people and defined them. Not so much anymore. Thats probably the crux of what I am thinking.
As for the work, yes it does become my clients, as you suggest. However, if you look at most consulting documents, the companies name is splattered all over it, many times methodologies are secret, and nothing improves others work, working in the same arena.
I also want to remind you that ethical and legal are sseperate concepts. This country was based on letting ideas be free. Heck Ben Franklin didnt even patent his inventions. Corporations are supposed to be given a right to exist only if we let them, but this has been turned against us. They know lobby and make the rules suit them.
Ok i will tell you what I do for a living. I am a consultant, I work for a specialized group of people (American Indians) although I myself am not one.
I have written grants, set up banking systems, researched public policy, developed IT infrastructure, researched business models, etc etc.
The fact is, they pay me for my work I put into the report. When I am finished writing it, I DO NOT copyright it. I have been paid, I am done. I hope they share it far and wide, and it benefits others who couldnt have afforded to pay me for it upfront.
Nope. Recording can be done for cheap. Studio time being expensive is rediculous. Yes there are levels of sophistication, degrees of difference in engineers, and certainly electronics that vary in quality. But the fact remains that there have been many bands that have had hits with nothing more then a four track. We have more technology then ever, and the possibilities are out there.
One of my personal favorite bands has always made there own cd's on their own time and it sound sfine to me, so good in fact that popular musicians often play with them because, guess what, they are good at what they do and they have fun!
Worries me too. I ONLY share legal files, such as your example of live music made open by bands, but I do so with relish, because it is so convenient, and I knew what it was like to have limited ways to get to this music. I have a feeling my ISP is gonna get to wondering what I am up to, even though all traffic is legal. I also wonder if spiders are gonna do the same.
The solution is to knock it off. AOL proved that discs cost nothing to make. Therefore all studio work by musicians is nothing more then an ad. We should pay to see them perform, but NEVER to here some music made in a studio. How would you like a job where you played for the months then sat back and earned money, (or worse gave all your money to the people who funded that time)? Shouldnt they work 5 days a week 8 hours a day?!?!?!? Hell yeah they should playing their songs and earning money.
As for movies, we should pay for the experience of sitting in a big theatre, but if I want to watch it at home, it should be fair game to trade it. I am for a OPEN FREE SOCIETY and I am done with copyright crap.
And there is nothing wrong with it. Copyright is out of control, out of the consumers best intrest and therefore should be ignored. Ben Franklin didnt like copyright laws and neither do I. The person making the music, movie or whatever, is done. THey have made the piece, now its ours and thats that.
I had a friend who used to work at Microsoft. I remeber him having many new ideas at the time. Bill would say at the meeting, "How does this help me sell windows?" Bottom line in the beginning was how does it help me sell windows. I think all the new products are simply "whatever". Name recognition at best, but most important was always How does this help me sell more windows?
Now, the day has come when windows is king and we have to remember the tenet is the same: How can I make them pay for more windows? XP? Longhorn? It's a scary road we are going down: all you files will belong to them, new versions of the way office stores files (always keep ahead of open office), more DRM built in.
Screw you microsoft, forcing me to upgrade, forcing me to register every time I test different hardware in a clients computer I am working on.
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Catch Up? Like gone past?
I hate outlook and outlook express. At my real job, I have to use Outlook.
At my consulting Job I use evolution. Ah so much better. Then I have to go out and support (I do IT support) for outlook. YUCK. Express was better. Made more sense. When is MS gonna learn that there should be 2 ways to do things: Wizards for the lame, and straight forward for us techs?
I agree that some apps can take longer to load with Linux. However, many can be preloaded, but you have to know how, and I wouldnt expect anyone to know how right off the bat.
BUT:: And this is the biggest BUT ever, one that I have gotten my linux users to understand:
In windows, you are used to using an app, then shutting it down.
Not so with Linux.
I teach them to USE the multiple desktops. Put a mail app on one, put a writer (say OO.org) on another, put a browser on yet another. LEAVE THEM OPEN and running. Do not shut them down.
With linux there is no need to close these apps! You leave them on.
With the distro's I have been using, I can even tell them its ok to shut down their computers if they feel so compelled at the end of the day.
Next day, they restart and all their apps reappear where they were before.
Neither. Its just cracked and dirty.
Well Windows server 2003, was handed out on a trial basis to our team. It was not a beta, just an expiring over time trial. Well we crashed it using explorer. We found bugs all over the place. Yes it did have better security, mostly from not turning on services automatically, but compared to linux or bsd, all the little wizards were annoying and a waste of time.
We used it for awhile, it crashed way too much, we thought faulty hardware. SO we put knoppix on (cause thats just so easy) statrted a few services and found the machine stable while using it at the same time.
I was not impressed. We took the cds and sent them to a horrible fiery death.
Thanks I agree. I am amazed I got a 5 informative with a wrong URL. Thanks for the support.
This worm is not coded very smart, but its effective. I have extremely enjoyed this little known thread, those guys are way smarter then I.
Still I was smart enough to be using Linux, and I was more then annoyed that my internet was down, while the help line told me to patch windows, which 1. Does not apply to me and
2. No one could get the patch if their internet was down.
Stupid comcast. I should know better.
Whats even funnier, is that when I went to my office using a dsl connection, it was faster then ever, due to the crash of all the cable providers. I had a good laugh.
Thanks. I f-d up the first link without looking at it. I hope someone does mod this up it is very interesting.
I am glad you found it. Sorry about the confusion.
I was really trying to help, not hinder. I hope this clears things up.
BY the WAY: Dont call me BITCH again. I might start liking it.
I am sorry I cant mod you up. I agree, patches from MS have often caused more trouble then they are worth. I have seen this happen, and then I get the shit for it. What am I supposed to do?
My bad. I made a bad link that wasnt what I wanted:
r oo t=security,1~mode=flat
If you wanna look at the code its HERE:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7652257~
The grain of salt is that they are reverse engineering. But it still is there and interesting.
Again my appologies.
My bad :
r oo t=security,1~m
Here is the forum that matters:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7652257~
Well everything off is a good idea for a server. YOU should make the choices to turn anything on, and YOU should know why you did. The port this worm attacked has no justification for the home user. This is the same port that annoys most users of Win XP, but they dont know it. The only reason MS should have allowed this to be turned on was for administration on a LOCAL network.
By the way I can make win 2003 server crash in minutes if I am allowed to be a user on it. Shame, its not that much better, but leaving ports closed is a good idea, and a long idea comming.
DSL reports has a security forum that has been taking this sucker apart and giving us the code:
r oo t=security,1~mode=flat
have a look:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7649146~
Ya Think China might make laptops cheap? And make many of them? Thats NEWS HOW?
Course I want them for 99 cents like everything else I would buy from china.....
I am running Susu 8.2 on this laptop. I plugged in a harddrive in a usb/firewire drive case via usb. su mount /dev/sda/ mnt/usbdrive worked fine. /dev/sda /mnt/usbdrive. Worked fine. Whats the problem then?
Switched it to firewire. su mount
Dont tell anyone. Graduate, then go for your PHD.
Your thesis is staring you in the face. So simple.
Who wouldnt be mad at the US for thier policies?
But to conspire against the US to hurt civilians? He is going down. Thats not the way we do things here.
http://www.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrac k/20030301/RNEWS-3?section=Technology
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http://www.dieselnet.com/news/0106litex.html
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/st
http://www.nordicwirelesswatch.com/wireless/sto
Ok so I have had it. Using a dictionary (computer based), and a web browser, and a little programming, isnt it possible I could write a program to use random key words to do a patent search, and then have the results of non patented key words using phrases in a sort of smart order like noun, adjective, adverb, noun, or something like that to figure out all the non patented combinations and then submit those?
Like: computer bottling swiftly beer?
Patents suck.
Um the important point is that they dont contain cadmium. Cadmium is NASTY.
I appreciate your well written, rational response to my somewhat top of my head rant that I tend to write.
That said, you do make a good point. In this society there is reality (now) and the dream of utopia - impossible. However, I still stand by my point that the thing we pay for is the service of seeing the movie in the way it was intended, ie in a theatre, with a crowd, on a big screen, with surround. One can argue that they can do this at home, but I would say that some of the experience is lost. I am disturbed by the trend of our society becomming more and more shaped by products (movies in this case) that define our culture, yet we cant "own" them. In the past, this was not always the case, the tales told were for the people, retold by the people and defined them. Not so much anymore. Thats probably the crux of what I am thinking.
As for the work, yes it does become my clients, as you suggest. However, if you look at most consulting documents, the companies name is splattered all over it, many times methodologies are secret, and nothing improves others work, working in the same arena.
I also want to remind you that ethical and legal are sseperate concepts. This country was based on letting ideas be free. Heck Ben Franklin didnt even patent his inventions. Corporations are supposed to be given a right to exist only if we let them, but this has been turned against us. They know lobby and make the rules suit them.
Ok i will tell you what I do for a living. I am a consultant, I work for a specialized group of people (American Indians) although I myself am not one.
I have written grants, set up banking systems, researched public policy, developed IT infrastructure, researched business models, etc etc.
The fact is, they pay me for my work I put into the report. When I am finished writing it, I DO NOT copyright it. I have been paid, I am done. I hope they share it far and wide, and it benefits others who couldnt have afforded to pay me for it upfront.
SO THERE!
Nope. Recording can be done for cheap. Studio time being expensive is rediculous. Yes there are levels of sophistication, degrees of difference in engineers, and certainly electronics that vary in quality. But the fact remains that there have been many bands that have had hits with nothing more then a four track. We have more technology then ever, and the possibilities are out there.
One of my personal favorite bands has always made there own cd's on their own time and it sound sfine to me, so good in fact that popular musicians often play with them because, guess what, they are good at what they do and they have fun!
Worries me too. I ONLY share legal files, such as your example of live music made open by bands, but I do so with relish, because it is so convenient, and I knew what it was like to have limited ways to get to this music. I have a feeling my ISP is gonna get to wondering what I am up to, even though all traffic is legal. I also wonder if spiders are gonna do the same.
The solution is to knock it off. AOL proved that discs cost nothing to make. Therefore all studio work by musicians is nothing more then an ad. We should pay to see them perform, but NEVER to here some music made in a studio. How would you like a job where you played for the months then sat back and earned money, (or worse gave all your money to the people who funded that time)? Shouldnt they work 5 days a week 8 hours a day?!?!?!? Hell yeah they should playing their songs and earning money.
As for movies, we should pay for the experience of sitting in a big theatre, but if I want to watch it at home, it should be fair game to trade it. I am for a OPEN FREE SOCIETY and I am done with copyright crap.
And there is nothing wrong with it. Copyright is out of control, out of the consumers best intrest and therefore should be ignored. Ben Franklin didnt like copyright laws and neither do I. The person making the music, movie or whatever, is done. THey have made the piece, now its ours and thats that.
I had a friend who used to work at Microsoft. I remeber him having many new ideas at the time. Bill would say at the meeting, "How does this help me sell windows?" Bottom line in the beginning was how does it help me sell windows. I think all the new products are simply "whatever". Name recognition at best, but most important was always How does this help me sell more windows?
Now, the day has come when windows is king and we have to remember the tenet is the same: How can I make them pay for more windows? XP? Longhorn? It's a scary road we are going down: all you files will belong to them, new versions of the way office stores files (always keep ahead of open office), more DRM built in.
Screw you microsoft, forcing me to upgrade, forcing me to register every time I test different hardware in a clients computer I am working on.
It make sense, but its perverted and annoying.