I think you really need to ask yourself "Do I really need all this stuff?".
When I go out all I have is my mobile phone, it has built in calendar/appointments features and syncs the contacts and calendar items with Outlook... who needs a PDA?
The iPod I can understand... the gameboy... not really. They have always been quite large units. If you really can't go without playing games then get a phone with Java support or something like that. Nokia phones have quite decent Java support and the games are decent. Sure, they are not as good as the gameboy but surely you can't be that addicted to it;)
As I said.. you really need to evaluate just how important some of those things are to you and leave some of them at home:)
But Linux patches are made to the source code and you can see what the patch is changing. MS will need to supply to code for every update made to windows for this code review to be of any use since the patches are normally downloaded in a compiled form.
What about them running windows update with these machines. In 6 months time and after many security patches;) the code is not going to be the same. So what is to stop MS coding something in a patch that restores any backdoors that they might have removed? Is the Chinese government going to examine the code for every critical update and service pack it installs?
What is it with retail:D
I worked for Tandy here in Australia, (RadioShack in the States), while studying and afterwards since I couldn't find an IT job. I was later made redundant and then finally found an IT job working as a web developer in a startup firm that went bust. Oh well.
I was reading the article and this really struck me
A record industry official pointed to a past print advertisement from SBC's Pacific Bell unit that read, in part: "Download all the music you like. And all the music you sort of, kind of, maybe even a little bit like. Go MP3 crazy. Try new music. Build a song library. Whatever."
"Sure beats going to the record store," the advertisement concluded.
-- snip --
Matthew J. Oppenheim, the trade group's senior vice president for business and legal affairs, said the ad was important because it suggested a strong motive for SBC's position. "SBC believes that free music drives its business,"
Hmmm... I guess they would make quite a bit of money from the excess bandwidth charges from people who download heaps of music. Certainly that would be a strong motive to take this stance, money is a strong motive for a lot of things.
I wonder if this will work at slowing down Wayne Mansfield's spamming operations. Even after the very much public law suit with Joe McNicol he is still churning out the crap. The latest ones are going under the name of BusinessGrow - yondefa@yahoo.com.au.
Its rather nice that he uses the same phrase in each spam email "Business Seminars Australia - since 1987", guess what procmail is setup to look out for...
I have used this strategy in my work environment.
Things like scr, bat, exe, vbs, pif etc are all blocked without even bothering to scan them. If they pass the first level of checks they are then scanned using Sophos anti-virus before being delivered to the user.
All the users that are on PC's have Outlook 2000 or XP and have the dangerous attachment blocking enabled and access emails in the restricted zone meaning no scripting will be ran. Each PC is then also installed with Sophos anti-virus.
The mailserver has a specific email address setup on it that is subscribed to the Sophos Alerts system. When a new update is available due to a newly released virus it will download the update automatically meaning that it is the most up-to-date that it can be.
As you can see we have 2 levels of Anti-virus and 2 levels of general attachment blocking and then script blocking too. Don't rely on just one level of protection.
Here I was wondering why the image took so long to load... its a 1500x1575, 99% quality 550KB JPEG. Haven't they heard of image optimisation?? Just dropping it down to 70% gives a 200KB image. GIF then makes that 180KB. Finally does it really have to be 1500x1575?
If you are using a non-ie browser the page loads with the Javascript error "document.all is not a function". They have used IE specific code... if you want to access the site using Netscape use this link
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I think you really need to ask yourself "Do I really need all this stuff?". When I go out all I have is my mobile phone, it has built in calendar/appointments features and syncs the contacts and calendar items with Outlook... who needs a PDA? The iPod I can understand... the gameboy... not really. They have always been quite large units. If you really can't go without playing games then get a phone with Java support or something like that. Nokia phones have quite decent Java support and the games are decent. Sure, they are not as good as the gameboy but surely you can't be that addicted to it ;)
As I said.. you really need to evaluate just how important some of those things are to you and leave some of them at home :)
But Linux patches are made to the source code and you can see what the patch is changing. MS will need to supply to code for every update made to windows for this code review to be of any use since the patches are normally downloaded in a compiled form.
What about them running windows update with these machines. In 6 months time and after many security patches ;) the code is not going to be the same. So what is to stop MS coding something in a patch that restores any backdoors that they might have removed? Is the Chinese government going to examine the code for every critical update and service pack it installs?
or shouldn't this sort of thing be under 'Ask Slashdot'... that's what that section is there for, is it not?
There is a product called htmlarea which is fully cross browser compatible and doesn't write crap HTML code like all the IE only ones.
The real funky thing about this one is that there are spell checker and tables modules available for it.
What is it with retail :D
I worked for Tandy here in Australia, (RadioShack in the States), while studying and afterwards since I couldn't find an IT job. I was later made redundant and then finally found an IT job working as a web developer in a startup firm that went bust. Oh well.
I was reading the article and this really struck me
:)
A record industry official pointed to a past print advertisement from SBC's Pacific Bell unit that read, in part: "Download all the music you like. And all the music you sort of, kind of, maybe even a little bit like. Go MP3 crazy. Try new music. Build a song library. Whatever."
"Sure beats going to the record store," the advertisement concluded.
-- snip --
Matthew J. Oppenheim, the trade group's senior vice president for business and legal affairs, said the ad was important because it suggested a strong motive for SBC's position. "SBC believes that free music drives its business,"
Hmmm... I guess they would make quite a bit of money from the excess bandwidth charges from people who download heaps of music. Certainly that would be a strong motive to take this stance, money is a strong motive for a lot of things.
Also.. it may be unrelated but their share price is up $0.35
If you want to compare the new site design to the old one check out the archived copy provided by Archive.org Wayback Machine.
Or why not check out some of the previous designs... Nov 17, 1999 or why not go right back to Dec 23, 1996.
A really good view/break-down/rant on this letter can be found here
It is a very well written and quite thorough analysis.
I wonder if this will work at slowing down Wayne Mansfield's spamming operations. Even after the very much public law suit with Joe McNicol he is still churning out the crap. The latest ones are going under the name of BusinessGrow - yondefa@yahoo.com.au.
Its rather nice that he uses the same phrase in each spam email "Business Seminars Australia - since 1987", guess what procmail is setup to look out for...
I have used this strategy in my work environment. Things like scr, bat, exe, vbs, pif etc are all blocked without even bothering to scan them. If they pass the first level of checks they are then scanned using Sophos anti-virus before being delivered to the user. All the users that are on PC's have Outlook 2000 or XP and have the dangerous attachment blocking enabled and access emails in the restricted zone meaning no scripting will be ran. Each PC is then also installed with Sophos anti-virus. The mailserver has a specific email address setup on it that is subscribed to the Sophos Alerts system. When a new update is available due to a newly released virus it will download the update automatically meaning that it is the most up-to-date that it can be. As you can see we have 2 levels of Anti-virus and 2 levels of general attachment blocking and then script blocking too. Don't rely on just one level of protection.
Here I was wondering why the image took so long to load... its a 1500x1575, 99% quality 550KB JPEG. Haven't they heard of image optimisation?? Just dropping it down to 70% gives a 200KB image. GIF then makes that 180KB. Finally does it really have to be 1500x1575?
If you are using a non-ie browser the page loads with the Javascript error "document.all is not a function". They have used IE specific code... if you want to access the site using Netscape use this link