And you are using geek-speak. A virus that targets Microsoft systems but is transmitted via email is an "email virus" to most people. Bickering over semantics doesn't help the issue.
Pretty dumb yes, but at the same time, it's not hard to build an email server with virus filtering built into it. It costs all of about $300 for a server license from most antivirus vendors, and there's free virus scanners available as well.
As much as I think Windows blows goats, if you're putting an email server on the net I think it's the admin's responsability to ensure it doesn't propogate viruses. I put implementing virus scanning on the same level as making sure you're not running an open relay. It wasn't always like this but that's the climate we operate in now.
To inspire people. Especially people those who lack the creativity or courage to imagine such things. People like politicians, and the masses who vote for them.
She moved to a different city.
She's apparently not interested in talking, emailing or chatting which offer near-realtime interaction.
She'd rather write letters which are harder to get "caught out" with through a slip of the tongue (as it were) than actually deal with you.
Try this for giggles:
Get in the car, and turn up to her new place unexpectedly.
Watch her reaction - is it "Cool! My BF is here!" or is it "Oh Shit! What are you doing here?"
I'll bet she hasn't even told her new friends she has a boyfriend.
It's been a "longtime" relationship, and I'd say this is the excuse to leave that she's been looking for.
It's sad how people just accept such things as par for the course. Networks don't have to be flakey. Computers don't have to crash. Worms and Viruses don't have to be everywhere.
Yet most people don't know any different. If company salesmen, production stuff, or secretaries performed this badly they'd be fired. But wannabe IT Professionals just say "It's the system" and that get's them off the hook. It's a frigging joke, and I'm not surprised people lose their jobs, get outsourced, are paid less than they used to be, etc.
What's worse, as you've illustrated, many companies have these things effectively written into their IT policies.
*sigh* I can only assume your IT department is a bunch of brainwashed MSCE graduates.
You can't fix security problems with policy changes - you need to front up and address the issues. Whoever decided on that policy should be fired. Our policy is the exact opposite: Mozilla only.
Send a note to whoever the IT head reports to, with references to the problem and solutions to it. Just make sure it's Executive Compatible (tm) so he can understand it and tell them they're full of shit when they try to justify their incompetence.
I often wonder if some of these worms haven't come from some AV company employee.
I actually wondered something like that about these latest efforts... MicroSoft is in an ideal position to write the 'A' SCO-DDOS worm for it's own OS. A worm that scores publicity points for SCO and FUD points against the FOSS community, and then a nicely timed 'B' copycat worm shows up a day or so later targeting themselves to throw suspician even further onto the FOSS folks! Well, it makes a nice story;-)
But gangsters at least don't hammer you with spam constantly
Eh? Of course they do - It (probably?) isn't the local Rotary Club producing the crappy porn and assorted dodgy spam we get!
It's actually worse than that. Microsoft and Symantec are business partners. People will use Windows regardless, and if Windows remains vulnerable then people will use whatever AV comes with their PC - and that's very often Nortons.
Actually, that's more like the cost to NOT get viruses. Their talking about how much it costs if you don't do that stuff, and have to clean up afterwards (and pay someone else to tell you how).
Crazy isn't it? People want these little town cars, because they are little. But some marketing freak decides that Americans want big cars, so they make a frigging SUV version. WTF?
There's nothing crucial about that at all - that's the thing about structured text. Manifest.xml could just as easily contain the other files as children. I wouldn't be suprised if the OOo guys tried it somewhere along the line and specifically decided against it.
The difference is akin to having the same information on a scroll as opposed to in a book. It's a packaging difference, not a process difference. If you want to call it an "implementation process" then fine, but it's hardly original or non-trivial.
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And you are using geek-speak. A virus that targets Microsoft systems but is transmitted via email is an "email virus" to most people. Bickering over semantics doesn't help the issue.
Pretty dumb yes, but at the same time, it's not hard to build an email server with virus filtering built into it. It costs all of about $300 for a server license from most antivirus vendors, and there's free virus scanners available as well.
As much as I think Windows blows goats, if you're putting an email server on the net I think it's the admin's responsability to ensure it doesn't propogate viruses. I put implementing virus scanning on the same level as making sure you're not running an open relay. It wasn't always like this but that's the climate we operate in now.
To inspire people. Especially people those who lack the creativity or courage to imagine such things. People like politicians, and the masses who vote for them.
She's cheating on you.
She moved to a different city.
She's apparently not interested in talking, emailing or chatting which offer near-realtime interaction.
She'd rather write letters which are harder to get "caught out" with through a slip of the tongue (as it were) than actually deal with you.
Try this for giggles:
Get in the car, and turn up to her new place unexpectedly.
Watch her reaction - is it "Cool! My BF is here!" or is it "Oh Shit! What are you doing here?"
I'll bet she hasn't even told her new friends she has a boyfriend.
It's been a "longtime" relationship, and I'd say this is the excuse to leave that she's been looking for.
It's over, man. Let her go.
/still bitter
Bush?
Sounds like a frustrating situation...
It's sad how people just accept such things as par for the course. Networks don't have to be flakey. Computers don't have to crash. Worms and Viruses don't have to be everywhere.
Yet most people don't know any different. If company salesmen, production stuff, or secretaries performed this badly they'd be fired. But wannabe IT Professionals just say "It's the system" and that get's them off the hook. It's a frigging joke, and I'm not surprised people lose their jobs, get outsourced, are paid less than they used to be, etc.
What's worse, as you've illustrated, many companies have these things effectively written into their IT policies.
*sigh* I can only assume your IT department is a bunch of brainwashed MSCE graduates.
You can't fix security problems with policy changes - you need to front up and address the issues. Whoever decided on that policy should be fired. Our policy is the exact opposite: Mozilla only.
Send a note to whoever the IT head reports to, with references to the problem and solutions to it. Just make sure it's Executive Compatible (tm) so he can understand it and tell them they're full of shit when they try to justify their incompetence.
I often wonder if some of these worms haven't come from some AV company employee.
I actually wondered something like that about these latest efforts... MicroSoft is in an ideal position to write the 'A' SCO-DDOS worm for it's own OS. A worm that scores publicity points for SCO and FUD points against the FOSS community, and then a nicely timed 'B' copycat worm shows up a day or so later targeting themselves to throw suspician even further onto the FOSS folks! Well, it makes a nice story ;-)
But gangsters at least don't hammer you with spam constantly
Eh? Of course they do - It (probably?) isn't the local Rotary Club producing the crappy porn and assorted dodgy spam we get!
It's actually worse than that. Microsoft and Symantec are business partners. People will use Windows regardless, and if Windows remains vulnerable then people will use whatever AV comes with their PC - and that's very often Nortons.
Actually, that's more like the cost to NOT get viruses. Their talking about how much it costs if you don't do that stuff, and have to clean up afterwards (and pay someone else to tell you how).
I believe there was a Wren and Stimpy episode along the same lines...
There's an odd thing...
Why is monkeys bollocks bad, but dogs bollocks is good?
English is funny.
Yep. Amavis-New on Postfix with NOD32 and SpamAssassin for us.
>i didn't, did i miss anything? i dunno. i'm using mozilla with adblock too...
Yep, J2EE is ridiculously expensive. I mean, just check out these figures...
JBoss Appserver - Cost: $0.00
IBM 1.4 JDK for Linux x86 - Cost: $0.00
Eclipse IDE - Cost: $0.00
Yes, but you saw the adverts didn't you ?
Well, that proves it. It's clearly not a product of the FOSS community - there's no mention at all of bzip2 packaging.
Bullshit. The medical industry spends more on marketing than it does on drug development.
Crazy isn't it? People want these little town cars, because they are little. But some marketing freak decides that Americans want big cars, so they make a frigging SUV version. WTF?
Yeh, they're OK. Just don't buy a used Range Rover. Now THERE is a bad car.
Daimler-Chrysler makes SMART. So it's not all bad news...
I believe the phrase "Biting the hand that feeds you" would come into play. I don't expect the clown will prosecute them...
MetaNet could be interesting, but apparently that's Slashdotted too? Got another link?
There's nothing crucial about that at all - that's the thing about structured text. Manifest.xml could just as easily contain the other files as children. I wouldn't be suprised if the OOo guys tried it somewhere along the line and specifically decided against it.
The difference is akin to having the same information on a scroll as opposed to in a book. It's a packaging difference, not a process difference. If you want to call it an "implementation process" then fine, but it's hardly original or non-trivial.
So what about the folks who made the Copy Guard Breaker software used to copy it?