To buy a gun you need 2 forms of ID, then fill out of a government form certifying your not a felon, drunkard, drug dealer or wife beater. Gun store then calls the ATF and performs a background check on you. Then if all that passes, you can take your gun home.
This is in Virginia, in some states you need to go before the police, and get them to do a background check which can involve interviews with neighbors, friends and family and Police to determine you have a NEED to get a gun. After all that, you still might have a waiting period (even if you own guns already) and still get all the fun at gun store.
ActiveSync is HTTPS traffic. However, Exchange is "chatty" because both iPhone and Android implementations don't handle "IDLE" part of it really well. Sense Mail client ignores ActiveSync notifications that individual email has changed and issue the command to list all mails in folder again. iPhones do similar shenanigans. On average, according to my Active Sync logs, iPhone 3GS on iOS 3.x connects 4x then Winmo 6.5 phone.
Also, since a data connection is still open, I imagine that means a channel is locked up with that phone despite little data being moved and channels are limited per cell tower.
Actually, it depends on where you live. In Virginia, companies can/will let you go before 2 weeks is up. If they do so, they do not have to pay for any remaining 2 week time. One company let me go about a week early so I wasn't held into next payroll period. I received no additional compensation for that week. I could have claimed unemployment but dealing with that for a week pay wasn't worth it.
We have had opposite experience. We do provide work iPhones and support them. iPhone users we never hear from again about Email. Blackberries on other hand are constantly loosing connection to BES, BES looses connection to mailbox, reset their BES account, clean out their Blackberry queue, it's never ending ticket queue.
Between most sysadmins I know, their dislike of BES is pretty universal and we wish they would embrace ActiveSync like everyone else.
Froyo is suppose to have much better Exchange Support including full device wipe upon Command. While I have it on my HTC Evo, it's too customized at this point for me to experiment with it.
Completely impossible. Many AV vendors are now updating 2 or 3 times a day. Heck, Microsoft free AV gets updated daily and sometimes twice daily. Unless you skipped updates and only deployed every Monday update, you could possibly test but you would need a dedicated team to testing. What happens if some Javascript virus came out on Tuesday? Are you going to leave your users unprotected till next week? AV is unfortunately a system where sometimes you do have to pray and update. We do that at our job since we are media company, we have very liberal web filter and sometimes our users get infected even with auto updating. I'd be scared to see the damage if we didn't update as soon as Symantec update was released. BTW, Symantec sucks as bad as McAfee but suits pushed it on us.
In fact, when they passed smart gun laws in New Jersey, they exempted the police from it. Apparently it's good enough for civilians but not good enough for the police.
Powershell was never designed to be used by day to day admins in general administration tasks. GUI for many things allows you to look up data or make one off changes much quicker. Powershell is designed to be used by admins to script common tasks they do daily. I have a Powershell script that will parse a comma delimited text file and add every line in there as Active Directory user with Exchange Mailbox. When we get 30 new employees at work, I modify some parameters on Powershell script, take list from HR and bam, in 15 minutes, I've added 30 new users with Exchange mailboxes. That's purpose of Powershell.
Newest Android OS supports Exchange ActiveSync which Microsoft's recommend way of pulling data off Exchange server for mobile devices. I haven't been able to fully test it though since our demo model from Sprint hasn't arrived at the office. We are hoping to support it but it depends on how much Google implemented it. For those who don't know, Microsoft licenses Activesync to companies and Google bought it to use with GMail and Android.
Microsoft could create a repository of software that users could download but I can only imagine the screaming that would develop from all the 3rd party developers. When you have less the 1% of desktop market share and 3rd party companies don't have any money tied up in your OS, you can make repositories. Microsoft does give away free Anti Virus and Anti Malware and put in UAC. There is probably little else they can do.
Most consumers I've talked to, friends and family, are aware Win7 coming out. I also know several who have asked me on recommendations for computer purchase to which I've told them to hold off on due to W7 release. Yes, all retail computer manufacturers are offering upgrades but that's difficult for most people. I expect retail computer sales jump when it does because A. There are people who have been holding off till W7 release and B. Dell, HP, whoever will have some great deals on computers when it does does.
When Windows 7 pops up and asks you what type of network is this and you say "Public", guess what gets firewalled off? I've tried this on my Windows 7 lab computers. If you mark the network as public or disabled file sharing (which is default), Windows firewall will stop this one cold. While this is pretty big "oops", in the real world, it's pretty minor and should be patched before "unwashed masses" get ahold of Windows 7.
Question I have, was Microsoft notified about the problem before this disclosure or was someone trying to build up "street cred" by disclosing early?
IMAP isn't really security nightmare unless you don't encrypt it and that's pretty trivial in Ex2007.
Biggest issue with IMAP access is lack of ActiveSync and with that ability to push basic security policies to the phone and brick the phone in case of theft or being misplaced. That's what caused my company not to open up IMAP access. We didn't have any way to remote kill the phone. Once ActiveSync support was available, we had no issues with permitting it.
Errr no, Vista x64 runs with more then 4GB RAM without a problem. Windows 7 32 bit still has same limit. Windows 7 64 bit does not. There is a RAM extender called PAE that is used by all the OSes, Microsoft simply chooses not to install it in their desktop OSes because PAE has been known to break drivers and they want to push 64 bits to desktop. 4GB limit doesn't bother most desktop users and those who have more then 4GB run 64 anyways if they are power users. Yes, I consider 4GB+ users to be power users.
Actually isn't not unresponsive, Outlook will give up RAM quite happily and it's not opening 3 emails, it's keeping your entire PST/OST loaded into RAM so you don't bitch and complain when selecting different emails is "slow to load". Therefore if you have big.PST/OST expect for it to use alot of RAM.
However, I'm sitting on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with 6GB of RAM and Outlook is using 200MB total including what's committed for use and what's it happily taking because it can. I have 457MB.OST (Exchange cached file) so wanting to load half of it's not unreasonable. Linux uses similar memory management system and I don't hear alot of complaining about it.
If it's Visual Basic, then I'm certainly not convinced that for someone coming to it from scratch it's ultimately any easier to learn than (e.g.) C# or other C/C++ derived languages. It retains much of the syntactical clunkiness of old-fashioned basic, and its syntax isn't used much anywhere else, closing off the leveraging effect you get with C-style languages- learn one of those, and you partly know the others. Ironically, this will also make other languages appear more intimidating and locking that person into Visual Basic further.
Agreed, At my college they thought us VB.Net as introduction to OOP programming. We also did C++ and you could do C#. Reason they did.Net is while it wasn't technical school, they did want to teach us a language that was in wide use. However, there is really no other language with similar syntax so when you did some C++, you got to relearn syntax ALL OVER AGAIN.
If you want to teach someone something marketable for first language and there are plenty of.Net jobs out there, C# is much better choice.
MS really didn't come up with Cloud Computing. They have jumped on the bandwagon with their Azure platform but they are not the ones who really pushed it. Google and Amazon are more to blame for this.
Microsoft is more pushing their Hyper-V Virtualization platform. I think they just do cloud computing enough to be like, yes we have a cloud. To me, future of cloud computing is more companies having clusters of servers where you can create additional instances and easily add more hardware. This is more what Microsoft is pushing along with VMWare.
It's a whole 99 dollars a year and easily affordable for any indie developer. They probably have overhead costs with marketplace they would like to recover.
Most phones probably cache some maps but very few phones keep all the maps it needs. Most GPS units hold 8-15 GB worth of maps depending on their detail level. That would be a complete waste on smartphone. My HTC Touch Pro (WM 6.1) doesn't keep any maps normally as I've attempted to use it while on a phone call and was told I need to get off the phone so I can get a data connection. CDMA doesn't allow for data/voice at same time. Reason I prefer a phone over GPS unit is I don't have worry about map updates, I can use it in a friends car if I'm out with them and it can start mapping for contacts without re typing their address. Power issues is minor problem easily solved. Your in a car with power, if you use your phone as GPS unit, get car adapter for your phone, problem solved.
I only partly kid, in most cases, if all you have are Windows Admins, it makes good sense to replace Unix stuff with Windows if equivalent software is available and price isn't horribly cost prohibitive.
Agreed, however we don't torture prisoners per say, it's more foreign enemies of the state. We also still have decent firearms unlike you Canadians. As for Obama, he's just a statist like the rest of the politicians he just has a different method and sounds a lot better while doing it.
Actually, on the Desktop side, Ballmer during a investor meeting said biggest competition to Windows on Desktop is pirated Windows. Linux and Apple are blips and while they continue to make headway, it's extremely slow and not that large of a threat.
If the RC and Beta are to be believed, it feels snapper and I've run it without problems on P4 1.6 with 1GB Laptop and while slightly slower then XP, it actually runs well unlike Vista that just completely chokes.
Actually Windows 7 reports it's version as 6.1. Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 reports 6. Windows 7 is really vista with slow parts taken out and new UI splashed on.
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To buy a gun you need 2 forms of ID, then fill out of a government form certifying your not a felon, drunkard, drug dealer or wife beater. Gun store then calls the ATF and performs a background check on you. Then if all that passes, you can take your gun home.
This is in Virginia, in some states you need to go before the police, and get them to do a background check which can involve interviews with neighbors, friends and family and Police to determine you have a NEED to get a gun. After all that, you still might have a waiting period (even if you own guns already) and still get all the fun at gun store.
Yea, buying video games is much harder....
ActiveSync is HTTPS traffic. However, Exchange is "chatty" because both iPhone and Android implementations don't handle "IDLE" part of it really well. Sense Mail client ignores ActiveSync notifications that individual email has changed and issue the command to list all mails in folder again. iPhones do similar shenanigans. On average, according to my Active Sync logs, iPhone 3GS on iOS 3.x connects 4x then Winmo 6.5 phone.
Also, since a data connection is still open, I imagine that means a channel is locked up with that phone despite little data being moved and channels are limited per cell tower.
Actually, it depends on where you live. In Virginia, companies can/will let you go before 2 weeks is up. If they do so, they do not have to pay for any remaining 2 week time. One company let me go about a week early so I wasn't held into next payroll period. I received no additional compensation for that week. I could have claimed unemployment but dealing with that for a week pay wasn't worth it.
We have had opposite experience. We do provide work iPhones and support them. iPhone users we never hear from again about Email. Blackberries on other hand are constantly loosing connection to BES, BES looses connection to mailbox, reset their BES account, clean out their Blackberry queue, it's never ending ticket queue.
Between most sysadmins I know, their dislike of BES is pretty universal and we wish they would embrace ActiveSync like everyone else.
Froyo is suppose to have much better Exchange Support including full device wipe upon Command. While I have it on my HTC Evo, it's too customized at this point for me to experiment with it.
By Uncommon, you mean living in a state with 6th highest per capita income?
Completely impossible. Many AV vendors are now updating 2 or 3 times a day. Heck, Microsoft free AV gets updated daily and sometimes twice daily. Unless you skipped updates and only deployed every Monday update, you could possibly test but you would need a dedicated team to testing. What happens if some Javascript virus came out on Tuesday? Are you going to leave your users unprotected till next week? AV is unfortunately a system where sometimes you do have to pray and update. We do that at our job since we are media company, we have very liberal web filter and sometimes our users get infected even with auto updating. I'd be scared to see the damage if we didn't update as soon as Symantec update was released. BTW, Symantec sucks as bad as McAfee but suits pushed it on us.
In fact, when they passed smart gun laws in New Jersey, they exempted the police from it. Apparently it's good enough for civilians but not good enough for the police.
Powershell was never designed to be used by day to day admins in general administration tasks. GUI for many things allows you to look up data or make one off changes much quicker. Powershell is designed to be used by admins to script common tasks they do daily. I have a Powershell script that will parse a comma delimited text file and add every line in there as Active Directory user with Exchange Mailbox. When we get 30 new employees at work, I modify some parameters on Powershell script, take list from HR and bam, in 15 minutes, I've added 30 new users with Exchange mailboxes. That's purpose of Powershell.
Newest Android OS supports Exchange ActiveSync which Microsoft's recommend way of pulling data off Exchange server for mobile devices. I haven't been able to fully test it though since our demo model from Sprint hasn't arrived at the office. We are hoping to support it but it depends on how much Google implemented it. For those who don't know, Microsoft licenses Activesync to companies and Google bought it to use with GMail and Android.
Microsoft could create a repository of software that users could download but I can only imagine the screaming that would develop from all the 3rd party developers. When you have less the 1% of desktop market share and 3rd party companies don't have any money tied up in your OS, you can make repositories. Microsoft does give away free Anti Virus and Anti Malware and put in UAC. There is probably little else they can do.
Most consumers I've talked to, friends and family, are aware Win7 coming out. I also know several who have asked me on recommendations for computer purchase to which I've told them to hold off on due to W7 release. Yes, all retail computer manufacturers are offering upgrades but that's difficult for most people. I expect retail computer sales jump when it does because A. There are people who have been holding off till W7 release and B. Dell, HP, whoever will have some great deals on computers when it does does.
When Windows 7 pops up and asks you what type of network is this and you say "Public", guess what gets firewalled off? I've tried this on my Windows 7 lab computers. If you mark the network as public or disabled file sharing (which is default), Windows firewall will stop this one cold. While this is pretty big "oops", in the real world, it's pretty minor and should be patched before "unwashed masses" get ahold of Windows 7.
Question I have, was Microsoft notified about the problem before this disclosure or was someone trying to build up "street cred" by disclosing early?
IMAP isn't really security nightmare unless you don't encrypt it and that's pretty trivial in Ex2007.
Biggest issue with IMAP access is lack of ActiveSync and with that ability to push basic security policies to the phone and brick the phone in case of theft or being misplaced. That's what caused my company not to open up IMAP access. We didn't have any way to remote kill the phone. Once ActiveSync support was available, we had no issues with permitting it.
Errr no, Vista x64 runs with more then 4GB RAM without a problem. Windows 7 32 bit still has same limit. Windows 7 64 bit does not. There is a RAM extender called PAE that is used by all the OSes, Microsoft simply chooses not to install it in their desktop OSes because PAE has been known to break drivers and they want to push 64 bits to desktop. 4GB limit doesn't bother most desktop users and those who have more then 4GB run 64 anyways if they are power users. Yes, I consider 4GB+ users to be power users.
Actually isn't not unresponsive, Outlook will give up RAM quite happily and it's not opening 3 emails, it's keeping your entire PST/OST loaded into RAM so you don't bitch and complain when selecting different emails is "slow to load". Therefore if you have big .PST/OST expect for it to use alot of RAM.
However, I'm sitting on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with 6GB of RAM and Outlook is using 200MB total including what's committed for use and what's it happily taking because it can. I have 457MB .OST (Exchange cached file) so wanting to load half of it's not unreasonable. Linux uses similar memory management system and I don't hear alot of complaining about it.
If it's Visual Basic, then I'm certainly not convinced that for someone coming to it from scratch it's ultimately any easier to learn than (e.g.) C# or other C/C++ derived languages. It retains much of the syntactical clunkiness of old-fashioned basic, and its syntax isn't used much anywhere else, closing off the leveraging effect you get with C-style languages- learn one of those, and you partly know the others. Ironically, this will also make other languages appear more intimidating and locking that person into Visual Basic further.
Agreed, At my college they thought us VB.Net as introduction to OOP programming. We also did C++ and you could do C#. Reason they did .Net is while it wasn't technical school, they did want to teach us a language that was in wide use. However, there is really no other language with similar syntax so when you did some C++, you got to relearn syntax ALL OVER AGAIN.
If you want to teach someone something marketable for first language and there are plenty of .Net jobs out there, C# is much better choice.
MS really didn't come up with Cloud Computing. They have jumped on the bandwagon with their Azure platform but they are not the ones who really pushed it. Google and Amazon are more to blame for this.
Microsoft is more pushing their Hyper-V Virtualization platform. I think they just do cloud computing enough to be like, yes we have a cloud. To me, future of cloud computing is more companies having clusters of servers where you can create additional instances and easily add more hardware. This is more what Microsoft is pushing along with VMWare.
It's a whole 99 dollars a year and easily affordable for any indie developer. They probably have overhead costs with marketplace they would like to recover.
Most phones probably cache some maps but very few phones keep all the maps it needs. Most GPS units hold 8-15 GB worth of maps depending on their detail level. That would be a complete waste on smartphone. My HTC Touch Pro (WM 6.1) doesn't keep any maps normally as I've attempted to use it while on a phone call and was told I need to get off the phone so I can get a data connection. CDMA doesn't allow for data/voice at same time. Reason I prefer a phone over GPS unit is I don't have worry about map updates, I can use it in a friends car if I'm out with them and it can start mapping for contacts without re typing their address. Power issues is minor problem easily solved. Your in a car with power, if you use your phone as GPS unit, get car adapter for your phone, problem solved.
Easy, we replace it with Windows.
I only partly kid, in most cases, if all you have are Windows Admins, it makes good sense to replace Unix stuff with Windows if equivalent software is available and price isn't horribly cost prohibitive.
Agreed, however we don't torture prisoners per say, it's more foreign enemies of the state. We also still have decent firearms unlike you Canadians. As for Obama, he's just a statist like the rest of the politicians he just has a different method and sounds a lot better while doing it.
Actually, on the Desktop side, Ballmer during a investor meeting said biggest competition to Windows on Desktop is pirated Windows. Linux and Apple are blips and while they continue to make headway, it's extremely slow and not that large of a threat.
If the RC and Beta are to be believed, it feels snapper and I've run it without problems on P4 1.6 with 1GB Laptop and while slightly slower then XP, it actually runs well unlike Vista that just completely chokes.
Actually Windows 7 reports it's version as 6.1. Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 reports 6. Windows 7 is really vista with slow parts taken out and new UI splashed on.