The average user thinks the IE *is* the internet.
The key point then Is to educate the user that the browser is not the internet, but just software that accesses the web. And that Firefox is better at doing that and protecting them from intrusion.
I never really left it, having always read some books on whatever subject I was working on at the time.
However, recently (past 4 years or so) I have been supplementing my paper book reading with Books on Tape, usually unabridged tapes of the entire book.
Some very recent books done that way, catching up on some I've always wanted to get to...by using tape
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (I have the paper version as well) There is no movie version of this. Get it on tape or paper and go through it! Using tape, I went through this in 9 days!
Faremheit 451
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
1984, by George Orwell ( This is a redo. I originally read it in high school long ago. I also watched the 1950's and the 1984 version of the movie, 1984
I am also currently reading several at the same time. Always keep a book or two in your bag, book marked of course. Read whatever appeals to you that day at lunch or when someone else is driving (coax them into driving...) Always keep some books with you. You never know when you will have some free moments.
Current paper books:
The Art of Speedreading People, Tieger (also read companion books "Do What You Are" and "Just Your Type", all highly recommended)
Conquering Deception, Jeff Nance
Unintended Consequences, John Ross (rated highly)
The Romantic Manifesto, Ayn Rand
The Art Of Winning Conversation, Stettner
More Guns Less Crime, John Lott Jr.
The Voice of Reason, Ayn Rand
The Third Terrorist, Jayna Davis
Stop Being a Victim, Podrug
The Book of Guys, Garrison Keillor
Backpacking the Kelty Way
The Survivor Manual
Mountaineering First Aid (or something close to that
Plus the normal raft of Linux, and other tech books.
The key is to keep books around so that wherever you happen to be and come up with free time, you will have it there.
And use whatever format fits the situation. Movies are not necessarily bad, especially if viewing one might lead a person to read another book by the same author that is not available as a movie. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand or 1984 might be examples.
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It is odd that only moments after reading about
'What differentiates Linux from Windows',
how the very design of Windows leads to problems making fixes for security things gone wrong, the story of this latest patch problem appears. It is verification of the story I just read, in perfect example.
Synopsis: Microsoft reacts to marketing pressure to make design decisions favoring running a few processes faster but then finds itself forced first to layer in backward compatibility and then to engage in a patch-and-kludge upgrade process until the code becomes so bloated, slow and unreliable that wholesale replacement is again called for.
I have also never had my system "broken" by a patch.
But yours is only one system. Hardly what one would base statistics on.
OTOH, one of the websites I visited daily was down last week for 5 days. Finally it was only through *expensive* paid help calls to Microsoft that got it fixed. And it was the application of this last round of patches that killed it.
My own experience as a sysadmin and company PC guru is similar. Patches don't cause a problem *most* of the time. But now and then they kill a machine or render it damaged in some way and flaky. I've even had the latest IE update (IE 5.5 at the time) kill the machine so it wouldn't boot anymore. (my own machine)
Yet I have a RH 6.2 Linux machine that I set up for a business and update rarely, and has never been hacked. I update it with ssh from 100 miles away on dialup (it is on DSL). It has been rebooted *only* to move it physically. It just works.
Here is the latest uptime:
3:46am up 376 days, 22:42, 2 users
Perhaps it just goes back to that old saying "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
Microsft software was never designed with security in mind. And it was and is not their primary goal, even now. It is quite different than non-Microsoft software.
If security were *that* important, wouldn't they take some of those many *billions* and actually make that silk purse?
Consider even just today's news post on Slashdot. Each and every one of them is about Microsoft is about money, and *not" about fantastic security advances. And yet the security problems plague us everyday.
It is an internet based backup service. I guess aimed at business. I don't know what the cost is, but if you have very important stuff, it might be the thing to use.
At one time I was misled by the term "Duct" tape. The original name is "Duck: tape, and the orignal purpose and manufacture I heard on the radio awhile back and is repeated here: Duct vs. Duck
During World War II the U.S. Military needed a waterproof tape to keep the moisture out of ammunition cases. So, they enlisted the Johnson and Johnson Permacel Division to manufacture the tape. Because it was waterproof, everyone referred to it as "duck" tape (like water off a duck's back). Military personnel discovered that the tape was good for lots more than keeping out water. They used it for Jeep repair, fixing stuff on their guns, strapping equipment to their clothing... the list is endless.
After the War, the housing industry was booming and someone discovered that the tape was great for joining the heating and air conditioning duct work. So, the color was changed from army green to the silvery color we are familiar with today and people started to refer to it as "duct tape*." Therefore, either name is appropriate.
This is a big win even for Windows based software, such as OpenOffice and other desktop OSS software. And what about OSS server based software? That too.
This is a good thing. I have used Mozilla for some time, but also had to use IE to access some pages on the company intranet.
But now I can use Mozilla to access those same pages. I know it works, because the NTLM authentication actually was working before this latest beta. And I am quite pleased.
In order for Mozilla or any non MS browser to gain users in corporations, this was a must.
I see some negative comments, and I guess I expect some here. But I am quite pleased with Mozilla. It has some nice features, and it has them for free. Spam filtering, pop-up stopper, and on and on.
The fact is, I needed a browser and email client that is *more* than spartan to replace what I was using, and for mail that was an OS/2 program. With all that Mozilla Mail has, the OS/2 program still has a feature or two I'd like to see added to Mozilla.
But the bigger thing is that for Microsoft to be displaced to any degree, the software that does it *has* to be blessed with good features. I has to be more than spartan. And like IE, which really isn't free, Mozilla not only gives the impression of free, but *is* free. And 'free' is also required for sucess.
Yeah right! Bet you don't even have one. I'm not even so sure they actually gave text messages back. However I do actually have one stored away someplace. An acutal TI-994a acoustic modem in the original box, hardly used. It is probably hard to find anything that would slow down to match its speed.
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I already I use it everyday effectively.
The other name? Lotus Notes.
Unfortunately, not open source. However the server does run on Linux, and mail can be read with a web browser. Also, authentication AFAIK is only between Notes servers.
I cannot say that I can reproduce a blue screen on NT, nor a hangup. On my NT box at work I've never had a blue screen or a hang and it's been running since the millenium (mandatory shutdown for y2k). My other computer at home (more complex installation) might have had one blue screen this year --so few that I can't even remember.
I am a sysadmin for a large company, and we are running mostly Winnt 4.0 and Win2k on our client boxes. And I can tell you with certainty, I see plenty of blue screens. And when we get them, it is comparitively harder to recover than it would be with Linux.
In fact, when I get a crashed Windows box which has perhaps bad boot files or registry, what I do to recover is boot the PC with the Redhat Linux Based SuperRescue CD, copy the data files and whatever else to a network drive, re-image the machine, and copy the files back.
How hard is it to crahs NT/Win2k? Not hard really. For instance, we still have a fair amount of Token Ring network. If you boot with those drivers active and without the network cable attached the odds are decent for a bluescreen. If you pull the network cable out while running you can get the same. It is often enough that we have to make hardware profiles to handle it.
And I don't think it is the drivers, since we have a variety of network cards from different manufacturers and both laptop PCMCIA and ISA or PCI. I think it is a core problem with Windows.
And let's not blame it on Token Ring either, it has been around for many years. And Linux handles it correctly!!!!!
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I wonder if Netcraft has a method to report to the targetted business (banks, Ebay, etc) so they can follow up on legal action.
So, just what is new? Not webmail. Features maybe...
Even before the 'slashdot effect', the site has been unavaiable. All morning.
The average user thinks the IE *is* the internet.
The key point then Is to educate the user that the browser is not the internet, but just software that accesses the web. And that Firefox is better at doing that and protecting them from intrusion.
Uhmm... It is not accurate at all.
This piece is widely known, and easily found via Google: Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 9/11
And sufficiently reveals the film for what it is, pure entertainment (fiction) and a 'mockumentary'.
However, recently (past 4 years or so) I have been supplementing my paper book reading with Books on Tape, usually unabridged tapes of the entire book.
Some very recent books done that way, catching up on some I've always wanted to get to...by using tape
I am also currently reading several at the same time. Always keep a book or two in your bag, book marked of course. Read whatever appeals to you that day at lunch or when someone else is driving (coax them into driving...)
Always keep some books with you. You never know when you will have some free moments.
Current paper books:
- The Art of Speedreading People, Tieger (also read companion books "Do What You Are" and "Just Your Type", all highly recommended)
- Conquering Deception, Jeff Nance
- Unintended Consequences, John Ross (rated highly)
- The Romantic Manifesto, Ayn Rand
- The Art Of Winning Conversation, Stettner
- More Guns Less Crime, John Lott Jr.
- The Voice of Reason, Ayn Rand
- The Third Terrorist, Jayna Davis
- Stop Being a Victim, Podrug
- The Book of Guys, Garrison Keillor
- Backpacking the Kelty Way
- The Survivor Manual
- Mountaineering First Aid (or something close to that
- Plus the normal raft of Linux, and other tech books.
The key is to keep books around so that wherever you happen to be and come up with free time, you will have it there. And use whatever format fits the situation. Movies are not necessarily bad, especially if viewing one might lead a person to read another book by the same author that is not available as a movie. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand or 1984 might be examples.Results 1 - 10 of about 234,000 for "linux recommendation". (0.36 seconds)
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Synopsis:
Microsoft reacts to marketing pressure to make design decisions favoring running a few processes faster but then finds itself forced first to layer in backward compatibility and then to engage in a patch-and-kludge upgrade process until the code becomes so bloated, slow and unreliable that wholesale replacement is again called for.
Sure, you could have it use another FS (ext2) but can you imagine a DOS not using FAT?
But yours is only one system. Hardly what one would base statistics on.
OTOH, one of the websites I visited daily was down last week for 5 days. Finally it was only through *expensive* paid help calls to Microsoft that got it fixed. And it was the application of this last round of patches that killed it.
My own experience as a sysadmin and company PC guru is similar. Patches don't cause a problem *most* of the time. But now and then they kill a machine or render it damaged in some way and flaky. I've even had the latest IE update (IE 5.5 at the time) kill the machine so it wouldn't boot anymore. (my own machine)
Yet I have a RH 6.2 Linux machine that I set up for a business and update rarely, and has never been hacked. I update it with ssh from 100 miles away on dialup (it is on DSL). It has been rebooted *only* to move it physically. It just works.
Here is the latest uptime:
3:46am up 376 days, 22:42, 2 users
Microsft software was never designed with security in mind. And it was and is not their primary goal, even now. It is quite different than non-Microsoft software.
If security were *that* important, wouldn't they take some of those many *billions* and actually make that silk purse?
Consider even just today's news post on Slashdot. Each and every one of them is about Microsoft is about money, and *not" about fantastic security advances. And yet the security problems plague us everyday.
Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Microsoft vs. Burst.com
It is an internet based backup service. I guess aimed at business. I don't know what the cost is, but if you have very important stuff, it might be the thing to use.
If you actually read the article, you read:
The rogue program does not affect the Apple Macintosh line of computers or computers running variants of the Unix operating system.
OK, so that leaves what? Windows, OS/2, and a few oddities. And the only likely one of those, the only possible one is Windows.
So, Windows is there, but the NYT went out of their way to *avoid* mentioning it.
This is a big win even for Windows based software, such as OpenOffice and other desktop OSS software. And what about OSS server based software? That too.
If this thing is filled with hydrogen, will the weight be less that nothing? In other words, will it float midair? If so, what is the airspeed?
Hey, this could be cool! I want one of these!!!
But now I can use Mozilla to access those same pages. I know it works, because the NTLM authentication actually was working before this latest beta. And I am quite pleased.
In order for Mozilla or any non MS browser to gain users in corporations, this was a must.
The fact is, I needed a browser and email client that is *more* than spartan to replace what I was using, and for mail that was an OS/2 program. With all that Mozilla Mail has, the OS/2 program still has a feature or two I'd like to see added to Mozilla.
But the bigger thing is that for Microsoft to be displaced to any degree, the software that does it *has* to be blessed with good features. I has to be more than spartan. And like IE, which really isn't free, Mozilla not only gives the impression of free, but *is* free. And 'free' is also required for sucess.
Sure, it has some side effects, but don't all fixes?
Trust me, money [the love of] is cheaper than love [of the other sex]
No, this is by definition a technology issue, and must be solved by technology. Trusted servers, trusted users, accountability, e-stamps, etc.
We just don't need more useless laws filling up the books, law enforcement time and money, and user harrassment.
But I will admit one thing, if ever I expected a useless law to come from anywhere, they left coast is the place.
Yeah right! Bet you don't even have one. I'm not even so sure they actually gave text messages back. However I do actually have one stored away someplace. An acutal TI-994a acoustic modem in the original box, hardly used. It is probably hard to find anything that would slow down to match its speed.
The other name? Lotus Notes.
Unfortunately, not open source. However the server does run on Linux, and mail can be read with a web browser. Also, authentication AFAIK is only between Notes servers.
Since 14-Aug-2002 apparently:
The site www.sco.com is running Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.0.3pl1 on Linux.
I am a sysadmin for a large company, and we are running mostly Winnt 4.0 and Win2k on our client boxes. And I can tell you with certainty, I see plenty of blue screens. And when we get them, it is comparitively harder to recover than it would be with Linux.
In fact, when I get a crashed Windows box which has perhaps bad boot files or registry, what I do to recover is boot the PC with the Redhat Linux Based SuperRescue CD, copy the data files and whatever else to a network drive, re-image the machine, and copy the files back.
How hard is it to crahs NT/Win2k? Not hard really. For instance, we still have a fair amount of Token Ring network. If you boot with those drivers active and without the network cable attached the odds are decent for a bluescreen. If you pull the network cable out while running you can get the same. It is often enough that we have to make hardware profiles to handle it.
And I don't think it is the drivers, since we have a variety of network cards from different manufacturers and both laptop PCMCIA and ISA or PCI. I think it is a core problem with Windows.
And let's not blame it on Token Ring either, it has been around for many years. And Linux handles it correctly!!!!!