When the IT help desk clearly knows what operating system each desktop machine is running, they can easily standardize on setup, security, what apps need to be installed, and so on.
The apps installed should not be a function of the OS. The apps installed should be a function of the WORK the person using the computer needs it to do... from that you can decide what OS you need - whatever OS runs the required productive software, not what OS is easiest for a IT weenie to "support". And as for standardizing... unless you have a herd of clerks all doing the same thing, there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" standard desktop. Part of a typical assignment for me includes writing, text editing, graphics editing, CD production, page layout, maybe a bit of software testing... let me tell you what I need, don't try to pick my apps for me.
"if i did "stumble across" unauthorized [linux]desktops, they'd be formatted with extreme prejudice"
I worked for a large multi-state bank that hired a "desktop environment" PC manager with your attitide.
In the course of the usual hard drive snooping, he discovered that my hard drive had non-standard templates for Microsoft Word with complex macros in them, and a number of non-corporate standard programs for graphics and other things. Without asking anyone such as my boss or even me why they were there, he wiped those abominations off my hard drive one night, replacing all my stuff with the official corporate templates and the official programs. He also deleted my data because corporate standard required ALL data to be stored "on the network".
The next morning, I had to tell my boss that three months worth of policy and procedure manual development had been deleted, along with the templates, macros, and graphics programs that produced them. I had a shiny new install of a corporate standard desktop that had been done in the dead of night. Then I had the fun of watching the boss (he was head of mainframes, one the people who handled the money) flay the hide off the PC environment guy... for doing anything in mainframe territory without checking with mainframe staff, and for not making backups of my hard drive before wiping it. I, of course, had backups of everything, but we let him sweat.
" Will it help me find out whether it's my daughter calling from a pay phone in an emergency situation, or a telemarketer?"
AFAIK, it has to accurately show the business name... so I think "PayPhone" and "Joe's Telemarketing" might be distinguishable.
"When you have complex rhythms, chord structures and so on, even the best musician is going to be hard pushed to pick it all up by hearing."
My nephew plays his compositions on a MIDI keyboard hooked into his computer... it converts the input into sheet music for him, and he can edit from there, have the computer play it back, add parts for other instruments, and print it out when he's happy with it. It doesn't make him a better musician, but he is more willing to compose and revise than someone who is using the traditional paper and pencil method.
There is a separate FCC ruling going into effect some time this year that REQUIRES all telemarketing equipment to show the true originating number. That will help you.
Shouldn't the so-called "artists" learn to read and write scores first, lean to play an instrument, then work and work at their art to get better before using all the gimmicks?
... and I bet you want babies to learn the anatomy and physiology of their legs before they are allowed to walk. These are exploration tools so that the kids don't get so bogged down in the mechanics of reading and writing musical notation that they learn to hate music.
The most effective way to get a high level of fluency in a foreign language is NOT to formally study it, it is to just use it as much as possible and figure out the rules later. Same thing with music... and if you took a poll, you would be surprised at all the excellent musicians who play by ear, not by sight.
The billing is very automated, and relies on coding inserted by the equipment to settle the bandwidth charges on the backbone carrier networks. The investigation is looking into allegations WorldCom/MCI would sneak their calls into rival LD networks via small local-only networks, and even did what appears to be the equivalent of "relay rape" where possible so ATT Canada got hit with the LD charges.
Justice Department officials have evidence that MCI may, in effect, have "laundered" calls through small telephone companies, and even redirected domestic calls through Canada, to avoid paying access fees or shift them to rival long-distance carriers, according to people involved in the investigation.
By USA government estimates, there are 25,000,000 small businesses in the USA. And most of them use computers: my plumber and my yard guy both have computer systems! The plumber does the basic business stuff, including B2B inventory management between him and his suppliers. He runs low on parts, his system orders them for him. The yard guy? He prints up brochures to hand out, and does his accounting. His wife does her college homework.
My previous employer is already using a freelance geek... used to be a Microsoft-only admin, but I corrupted him. Free samples of Windows vresions of the GIMP and OpenOffice got him hooked, then I switched him to the hard stuff. Knoppix and RedHat. Now he's mainlining SourceForge and just hired another freelance DB to set up open source MRP.
Whenever an app crashes the windows error reporting system fires off a log to microsoft regarding the crash. I bet 90%+ of these crashes have nothing to do with windows.
"Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day."
Skew things the other way for all the systems behind firewalls and those that have deliberately disabled the crash reporting. That 5% is just the ones they know about, and until XP, there was no error reporting service.
I was kinda expecting the massive lawsuits against SCO from those fortune 500 companies whom SCO sent FUD letters to. Those fortune 500 lawyers are either too whimp or too lazy to actually look into the case.
Patience, Grasshopper, patience. A good legal department will wait to receive a printed demand for payment before moving. You want to wait until they put it in writing. All else is hot air and bullshit.
YOU can get it for actual OR PROSPECTIVE litigation...
"The Copyright Office Litigation Statement Form is completed and received from an attorney or authorized representative in connection with litigation, actual or prospective, involving the copyrighted work. The following information must be included in such a request: a) the names of all parties involved and the nature of the controversy; and b) the name of the court in which the actual case is pending. In the case of a prospective proceeding, the requestor must give full statement of the facts of controversy in which the copyrighted work is involved, attach any letter or other document that supports the claim that litigation may be instituted, and make satisfactory assurance that the requested reproduction will be used only in connection with the specified litigation.
What possible logic would require a video to be held for ten years in the absence of a complaint?
The statute of limitations for a passenger's filing a complaint would have something to do with the length of time they keep the tapes. And they have to satisfy the longest possible time in every place they could be sued.
A California restaurant was sued at the last possible moment (AFAIK - 5 years after the incident allegedly happened) for some supposed discrimination against the disabled. After that length of time, any work schedules that could show who was a possible witness are long gone, as are 99% of the wait staff. Video would have a nice thing to have.
I love video. I used to have to go to court and testify in drunk driving cases, as the person who drew the blood sample at ungodly hours of the night. This chewed up a lot of time, daytime when I could have been sleeping. Then they installed a VCR in the area we took blood in... we'd start the tape, give date and time and our name and talk through the whole procedure, doing everything in full view of the lens. It was also aimed at the path the drunks had to take to get to the chair, and the cops would turn them loose at the door and let them walk, stagger, crawl, or fall flat and slither... whatever happened. Within a few weeks of the installation, the number of subpoenas dropped to near zero and stayed there. To contest our work, they had to show the tape and that included their client's appearance and walking ability.
It's $14.95 a month for the fast vresion... and the speeds are merely because they compress pages at their end and decompress at the user's end. File downloads are no faster than usual.
I'm using NetZero at the moment. I'm looking for a dialup. Phone lines adequate to support DSL will arrive in 2010, unless some one with a lot of political pull moves into the hood.
whats to stop someone comming forward saying I changed module x with code/ideas I stole from company y
Can they prove it? Were they working for "Y"? Did they have access to "Y"'s code? Did they submit a patch or a module? And can "Y" prove that they have identical code that predates the submitted code, that has no common ancestor?
And if "Y"'s code was a trade secret, "Y"'s only recourse is to go after the person who divulged the trade secret, not those who innocently used it. "Y" has to prove that they took the usual precautions with trade secrets or even the divulger gets off the hook. The submitted code need not be removed, and no royalties are due, because as soon as a trade secret becomes public knowledge it has no legal protection. If a disgruntled Coca-Cola employee released their trade secret formula onto rec.cooking, the whole world could start using it immediately and owe nothing to Coke.
"a court may place an injunction on shipping Linux, or force Linux users to pay damages as well," When the numerous AMD-Intel patent disputes are resolved, does anyone ever make the users ship back their CPUs to the winner? Pay royalties to whichever side won that particular suit?
No! The losing side pays damages and may have to stop shipping, but end users are not liable for the actions of the manufacturer.
What I would require is the ability to download a low-res preview to see if I like the artist, and the ability to acquire that track in the high resolution format of my choice for burning to a CD. Artwork - doesn't matter to me. Liner notes do matter. I often will buy based on who is playing drums or bass, or buy because an artist was studio musician on a work I already have.
And previews need to be free - maybe just partial songs, but free or really cheap.
You could have piracy tracing built in... each high res track could have the downloader's info (member info) encoded into the music without degrading it. Any surge of these things on eBay or the Net could be traced to the original downloader.
It has it now. Edit in GIMP, suck image into Scribus, export CMYK. End of problem.
YEEEHAH!!!! CMYK for GIMP via Scribus
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"Is Photoshop better than Gimp? Yes."
But the GIMP plus Scribus would give me the last missing bit of PhotoShop/Quark, the CMYK and pre-press stuff.
Edit photos in the GIMP, which in a head-to-head test several years ago (a very early GIMP for Windows) produced finished photos that were not distinguishable from the same photos edited in PhotoShop. Then bring them into Scribus and export the color separations.
The recent distros install with everything shut down by default. You have to deliberately bypass default security. Unless you get into some well-hidden config files and change settings or set up an insecure box by selecting security settings that aremarked as "possibly exploitable:, it's not likely to happen.
I selected a couple of programs (PHP and mySQL perhaps) and got a large warning box that there was a possibility that a security flaw might be discovered, and was advised to check for updates and security patches regularly if I insisted on running those programs.
Apparently Cable and Broadband networks are not requiring any sort of security measures by their customers. If they required firewalls and shut down HTTP requests (allow all outbound and inbound only if it is in reply to an outbound request) it would put a halt to this exploit regardless of what OS was running.
Exactly... and the 48 year old assembly line worker who killed five people at the Mississippi factory probably had a lot of country western music in his house and vehicle.
Let's see... we have a 18-year old whose mother died when he was 9, whose half-sister died when he was 10, whose younger brother had a serious birth defect and had to be defended from aggressive teasing, whose father was trying to be a single dad while wokring long hours. The kid was relentlessly teased throughout school. He was depressed, withdrawn, and isolated. His father said on a TV interview that he wished he had been able to get more counseling for the boy after his mother's death.
Yup, it was the Matrix and that video game all right. Ban them and we'll all be able to sleep well at night.
The schools that tolerated harassment of students of a nature that would get an adult fired from almost any workplace had NOTHING to do with it. The pathetic social support system in the USA, and the general lack of good low-cost mental health programs had NOTHING to do with it. It's the games.
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The apps installed should not be a function of the OS. The apps installed should be a function of the WORK the person using the computer needs it to do ... from that you can decide what OS you need - whatever OS runs the required productive software, not what OS is easiest for a IT weenie to "support". And as for standardizing ... unless you have a herd of clerks all doing the same thing, there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" standard desktop. Part of a typical assignment for me includes writing, text editing, graphics editing, CD production, page layout, maybe a bit of software testing ... let me tell you what I need, don't try to pick my apps for me.
I worked for a large multi-state bank that hired a "desktop environment" PC manager with your attitide.
In the course of the usual hard drive snooping, he discovered that my hard drive had non-standard templates for Microsoft Word with complex macros in them, and a number of non-corporate standard programs for graphics and other things. Without asking anyone such as my boss or even me why they were there, he wiped those abominations off my hard drive one night, replacing all my stuff with the official corporate templates and the official programs. He also deleted my data because corporate standard required ALL data to be stored "on the network".
The next morning, I had to tell my boss that three months worth of policy and procedure manual development had been deleted, along with the templates, macros, and graphics programs that produced them. I had a shiny new install of a corporate standard desktop that had been done in the dead of night. Then I had the fun of watching the boss (he was head of mainframes, one the people who handled the money) flay the hide off the PC environment guy ... for doing anything in mainframe territory without checking with mainframe staff, and for not making backups of my hard drive before wiping it. I, of course, had backups of everything, but we let him sweat.
" Will it help me find out whether it's my daughter calling from a pay phone in an emergency situation, or a telemarketer?" AFAIK, it has to accurately show the business name ... so I think "PayPhone" and "Joe's Telemarketing" might be distinguishable.
My nephew plays his compositions on a MIDI keyboard hooked into his computer ... it converts the input into sheet music for him, and he can edit from there, have the computer play it back, add parts for other instruments, and print it out when he's happy with it. It doesn't make him a better musician, but he is more willing to compose and revise than someone who is using the traditional paper and pencil method.
There is a separate FCC ruling going into effect some time this year that REQUIRES all telemarketing equipment to show the true originating number. That will help you.
The most effective way to get a high level of fluency in a foreign language is NOT to formally study it, it is to just use it as much as possible and figure out the rules later. Same thing with music ... and if you took a poll, you would be surprised at all the excellent musicians who play by ear, not by sight.
Justice Department officials have evidence that MCI may, in effect, have "laundered" calls through small telephone companies, and even redirected domestic calls through Canada, to avoid paying access fees or shift them to rival long-distance carriers, according to people involved in the investigation.
My previous employer is already using a freelance geek ... used to be a Microsoft-only admin, but I corrupted him. Free samples of Windows vresions of the GIMP and OpenOffice got him hooked, then I switched him to the hard stuff. Knoppix and RedHat. Now he's mainlining SourceForge and just hired another freelance DB to set up open source MRP.
"Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day."
Skew things the other way for all the systems behind firewalls and those that have deliberately disabled the crash reporting. That 5% is just the ones they know about, and until XP, there was no error reporting service.
Patience, Grasshopper, patience. A good legal department will wait to receive a printed demand for payment before moving. You want to wait until they put it in writing. All else is hot air and bullshit.
YOU can get it for actual OR PROSPECTIVE litigation ...
"The Copyright Office Litigation Statement Form is completed and received from an attorney or authorized representative in connection with litigation, actual or prospective, involving the copyrighted work. The following information must be included in such a request: a) the names of all parties involved and the nature of the controversy; and b) the name of the court in which the actual case is pending. In the case of a prospective proceeding, the requestor must give full statement of the facts of controversy in which the copyrighted work is involved, attach any letter or other document that supports the claim that litigation may be instituted, and make satisfactory assurance that the requested reproduction will be used only in connection with the specified litigation.
A California restaurant was sued at the last possible moment (AFAIK - 5 years after the incident allegedly happened) for some supposed discrimination against the disabled. After that length of time, any work schedules that could show who was a possible witness are long gone, as are 99% of the wait staff. Video would have a nice thing to have.
I love video. I used to have to go to court and testify in drunk driving cases, as the person who drew the blood sample at ungodly hours of the night. This chewed up a lot of time, daytime when I could have been sleeping. Then they installed a VCR in the area we took blood in ... we'd start the tape, give date and time and our name and talk through the whole procedure, doing everything in full view of the lens. It was also aimed at the path the drunks had to take to get to the chair, and the cops would turn them loose at the door and let them walk, stagger, crawl, or fall flat and slither ... whatever happened. Within a few weeks of the installation, the number of subpoenas dropped to near zero and stayed there. To contest our work, they had to show the tape and that included their client's appearance and walking ability.
No ... Unfortunately I think it's just a "concept drawing" to promote the software.
The practical side of me says it would never fit into the usual slot they are stuffed into by kitchen designers, but I like it anyway.
I'm using NetZero at the moment. I'm looking for a dialup. Phone lines adequate to support DSL will arrive in 2010, unless some one with a lot of political pull moves into the hood.
Can they prove it? Were they working for "Y"? Did they have access to "Y"'s code? Did they submit a patch or a module? And can "Y" prove that they have identical code that predates the submitted code, that has no common ancestor?
And if "Y"'s code was a trade secret, "Y"'s only recourse is to go after the person who divulged the trade secret, not those who innocently used it. "Y" has to prove that they took the usual precautions with trade secrets or even the divulger gets off the hook. The submitted code need not be removed, and no royalties are due, because as soon as a trade secret becomes public knowledge it has no legal protection. If a disgruntled Coca-Cola employee released their trade secret formula onto rec.cooking, the whole world could start using it immediately and owe nothing to Coke.
When the numerous AMD-Intel patent disputes are resolved, does anyone ever make the users ship back their CPUs to the winner? Pay royalties to whichever side won that particular suit?
No! The losing side pays damages and may have to stop shipping, but end users are not liable for the actions of the manufacturer.
And previews need to be free - maybe just partial songs, but free or really cheap.
You could have piracy tracing built in ... each high res track could have the downloader's info (member info) encoded into the music without degrading it. Any surge of these things on eBay or the Net could be traced to the original downloader.
It has it now. Edit in GIMP, suck image into Scribus, export CMYK. End of problem.
But the GIMP plus Scribus would give me the last missing bit of PhotoShop/Quark, the CMYK and pre-press stuff.
Edit photos in the GIMP, which in a head-to-head test several years ago (a very early GIMP for Windows) produced finished photos that were not distinguishable from the same photos edited in PhotoShop. Then bring them into Scribus and export the color separations.
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This was funny the first time you posted it ... it's getting boring.
I selected a couple of programs (PHP and mySQL perhaps) and got a large warning box that there was a possibility that a security flaw might be discovered, and was advised to check for updates and security patches regularly if I insisted on running those programs.
Apparently Cable and Broadband networks are not requiring any sort of security measures by their customers. If they required firewalls and shut down HTTP requests (allow all outbound and inbound only if it is in reply to an outbound request) it would put a halt to this exploit regardless of what OS was running.
Exactly ... and the 48 year old assembly line worker who killed five people at the Mississippi factory probably had a lot of country western music in his house and vehicle.
Yup, it was the Matrix and that video game all right. Ban them and we'll all be able to sleep well at night.
The schools that tolerated harassment of students of a nature that would get an adult fired from almost any workplace had NOTHING to do with it. The pathetic social support system in the USA, and the general lack of good low-cost mental health programs had NOTHING to do with it. It's the games.