From the looks of it, you've got to have a pretty good e-mail volume to make it worthwhile.
Their low end unit is for up to a million messages a day. Wow - that is a lot of e-mail traffic. I've set up an e-mail gateway machine that scans for viruses and spam using pre-existing equipment, but we only get about 500-700 e-mails per day here.
Not something to sign, just something to tell the user how to keep their machine clean when they get it back. I keep busy enough that I don't need their machine back in two weeks with the same problem, and I charge enough that they don't want to bring it back with the same problem.
I've also developed a "computer maintenance document" that I hand out with the bill. It tells the user (how) to run Spybot and Adaware at least weekly, and (how) to check to make sure that the antivirus software is up to date and working.
I usually don't see so many nasty viruses any more (but did see a bunch this spring and early summer!). Most of what I clean up is spyware and adware.
I just got done cleaning up a machine with a bunch of the stuff, and had a persistent bad guy called "VX2" that neither AdAware or Spybot could kill. Turns out that you need to download a plugin for AdAware to kill that guy.
On a side note - never recommend that anyone purchase an XP system with less than 256MB RAM. It just plain sucks to work on a machine with 128MB RAM and loaded with spyware (and legitimate software) - everything slows way down while the machine thrashed the drive for virtual memory.
Hell, the people in the surroundin area have probably picked up more radiation from their thorium smoke detectors and radon clock faces than from the nuke.
Wouldn't that be radium clock faces? Radon is a radioactive gas, right?
Microsoft is one of the largest donor in washington.
Don't you think this is a side effect of the antitrust lawsuits. Microsoft didn't grease the politicians before and paid the price in litigation. They have now learned the need to play the system.
This is no different than Ford, GM, ADM, the NRA, or PETA.
If you mix Windows computers and school age kids, you invariably get a mess of spyware and viruses making the machine unusable fairly quickly. I think that's just the nature of kids and the software that they like to run and the web sites that they like to visit.
I'd say that you have a better shot at a lower cost of ownership with a linux machine than a windows machine in this situation.
School aged kids are adaptable and don't need retraining to learn linux applications versus windows applications. Schools should be fairly agnostic about the applications that they teach anyway. And there shouldn't be many educational programs that lock the schools into using windows.
20 years ago, Apple was able to fill the schools with Apple II machines while businesses used PCs. There is no reason that schools shouldn't use linux over windows where it makes sense to do so.
* Who, BTW, is becoming less Neanderthal by the day, or maybe it's just that the current Republicans make him look reasonable by comparison -- I never thought I'd find myself agreeing with anything the guy said, and now I agree with him about half the time.
I don't think that he's really changed much about what he's been saying since the last election. He's always been an isolationist kind of guy.
My dad's got a heat pump that transfers heat into (or out of) well water - that's a nice constant usable temperature year round, so he doesn't run into the limitations of the air being too hot or cold to produce an effect.
You've got to love those printer drivers that take up all available system resources to print a page of text.
I've got one of those newer little HP Laserjet printers run from an XP workstation. Watching the system resources, the CPU usage is a sine wave - every few seconds the CPU spikes because of the printer driver.
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But a human just reviewing messages that are "close" to being spam will be more accurate than spamassassin + RBL + DNSBL alone.
Their low end unit is for up to a million messages a day. Wow - that is a lot of e-mail traffic. I've set up an e-mail gateway machine that scans for viruses and spam using pre-existing equipment, but we only get about 500-700 e-mails per day here.
Just like a coporation, the "LLC" is part of the entity's legal name. They're not advertising that they're an LLC, they're just stating their name.
Is there more ice at the south pole than the north pole?
Not something to sign, just something to tell the user how to keep their machine clean when they get it back. I keep busy enough that I don't need their machine back in two weeks with the same problem, and I charge enough that they don't want to bring it back with the same problem.
I've also developed a "computer maintenance document" that I hand out with the bill. It tells the user (how) to run Spybot and Adaware at least weekly, and (how) to check to make sure that the antivirus software is up to date and working.
I just got done cleaning up a machine with a bunch of the stuff, and had a persistent bad guy called "VX2" that neither AdAware or Spybot could kill. Turns out that you need to download a plugin for AdAware to kill that guy.
On a side note - never recommend that anyone purchase an XP system with less than 256MB RAM. It just plain sucks to work on a machine with 128MB RAM and loaded with spyware (and legitimate software) - everything slows way down while the machine thrashed the drive for virtual memory.
True. Just having a NAT router ahead of your computers would have prevented the SASSER worm from hitting you this spring.
Yeah - lord knows that there are no free antivirus programs (AVG), or spyware removal tools (Spybot and AdAware).
Especially in newer houses that are more insulated and don't turn the air over very often.
Wouldn't that be radium clock faces? Radon is a radioactive gas, right?
And we'll call him Blinky.
Don't you think this is a side effect of the antitrust lawsuits. Microsoft didn't grease the politicians before and paid the price in litigation. They have now learned the need to play the system.
This is no different than Ford, GM, ADM, the NRA, or PETA.
Does Antartica get that much snow - I always thought it was more of a desert. It doesn't snow much, but what's there doesn't melt.
Isn't "no light" what you want for looking through a telescope?
But you wouldn't be passing millions of dollars on to actors - that's got to be good on some level.
Say hello to frostbitten feet then.
I'd say that you have a better shot at a lower cost of ownership with a linux machine than a windows machine in this situation.
School aged kids are adaptable and don't need retraining to learn linux applications versus windows applications. Schools should be fairly agnostic about the applications that they teach anyway. And there shouldn't be many educational programs that lock the schools into using windows.
20 years ago, Apple was able to fill the schools with Apple II machines while businesses used PCs. There is no reason that schools shouldn't use linux over windows where it makes sense to do so.
No, but it's in the states' (especially small states) best interests to award the electors in a winner-take-all fashion.
I don't think that he's really changed much about what he's been saying since the last election. He's always been an isolationist kind of guy.
Write yourself in then.
My dad's got a heat pump that transfers heat into (or out of) well water - that's a nice constant usable temperature year round, so he doesn't run into the limitations of the air being too hot or cold to produce an effect.
I've got one of those newer little HP Laserjet printers run from an XP workstation. Watching the system resources, the CPU usage is a sine wave - every few seconds the CPU spikes because of the printer driver.
Kind of like lawyers making laws?
Or write an apology letter by hand to each and every recipient of each piece of spam that they sent.