"Last time I checked, I didn't need to compile Office2000 from source, and it installed just by popping the CD in and answering a few questions."
You mean the office where you pop the CD in, wait, answer some questions, watch it install, reboot to complete installation, reboot again, then go to the windows update site and install all sorts of updates and patches -- one at a time because they are all "special" -- have it ask for the office CD for each one -- which is in the drive, but for some silly reason it won't find it, reboot, reboot, reboot, etc...
and we're done. Now open up word and select some menu and have it tell you that this isn't installed and where is the office cd?
seems the easiest thing would be to get people to use private networks for everything that doesn't need to be reachable via the net... probably not going to happen, but it would help.
Forget md5... just give the source files to my mom. She taught english for 15 years so she'll know if they are the same or not, but she won't have the slightest clue what it's about so no one will have to worry about her stealing it:-)
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In the case of bulk snail mail, 100% of the costs (if you don't include me physically picking up the mail, looking at it, and tearing the latest "Want a 0% interest credit card that jumps to 30% later?" envelope as cost) is payed by the sender.
Do what I do... if it comes with a "no postage necessary" return envelope, tear it up, put it in the envelope and mail it back to them. I asked the post office if they minded and they said nope, they get paid...
seems if enough people did this then the signal to noise ratio would be high enough that maybe just maybe they'd stop.
If earthlink looked for mailing list headers or signs that the message is a mailing list they could allow it through... at least for awhile to avoid the challenge responses to mailing lists...
The flipside is that if your target audience is using an LCD and your doing online graphic design, you need to take them into account. I use an LCD all day and there are quite a few sites where the color changes are so subtle I don't see a difference... can make for some odd experiences sometimes.
Very nicely, bring these things up with HR. not in a technical sense, but in a potential employee lawsuit sense. Get it documented and then leave it at that.
Hopefully the head of HR will realize the danger and insist on action being taken.
It doesn't even need to be "out of area" purchases... it's happened to me twice. First time my girlfriend came back from studying abroad and I took her on a shopping spree... they wanted to know if in fact I had purchased almost a *lot* of women's clothes:)
Second time was when I bought her wedding ring with a card I rarely use...
This is your honeymoon... don't take any chances unless you like your couch:)
A good family friend of ours is a travel agent.. she booked our honeymoon and a couple of other trips. What is great is that she knows *us* and what *we* like. We just need to tell her where we want to go and when and she does the rest. She finds the right hotels, etc... to suit us.
Sure it might cost a little more, but it's worth it in my mind.
I'd recommend finding a travel agent that will get to know you and your tastes... it just makes things simpler in the long run.
A little more work, but if you've got your own domain, create subdomains for email addresses (ie. ph@slashdot.domain.com) and use that email on slashdot. Then if and when slashdot sells my email address (just an example) and I get spam to that address, I know who was responsible. I can also just remove the domain completely and then future spams won't even reach me as DNS won't resolve.
Doesn't have to be that specific, you could just to ph@sub1.domain.com and once it goes bad, kill it.
At a previous job, I was the sole sysadmin, dba, developer, and general tech support (only cause I was the only one that knew how to fix things) for a 4M hits/day site.
I told them it was a bad situation... if I ever left, or got sick, etc. they were screwed.
They realized they were short staffed (even if just for redunancy) when I took a vacation and suddenly nothing was getting done. More importantly it made *them* look bad to their bosses. Then they finally realized they needed to hire a "clone" in case I was out, sick, left, etc...
>> So users can use whatever damn platform they want. If you wanna go crazy and put X on your box, and that's not the company's party line, fine, as long as you don't expect ANY platform specific support, I don't care.
I hate being told what to use as much as anybody (heck, my wife *quit* her last job because they were going to make her use Outlook... for shared calendering... on a Mac! ha ha:), but you *will* support that system even if you say you won't. The first time the PHB needs something from that person and that person's computer if screwed up, you can bet that you'll be there trying to fix it.
So there are good reasons to mandate certain things...
In a previous job we all had to use NeXT's... and all had a builtin microphone... the boss would hold closed door meetings all the time and one of my collegues wanted to know what was going on so as the sysadmin he'd turn on the boss' microphone, send the output over the net to his machine and out his speakers.
That's my point... people need to use some other method to determine that the site they are visiting is secure/trustworthy/okay/etc. beyond the fact that Verisign thinks it is. And it's clear that you can't trust Verisign...
I don't know... all an SSL cert does is encrypt traffic b/n your browser and the server. What happens once it gets to the server is completely unknown to you (and the CA certainly doesn't care).
How many shopping carts have you seen that have an "email the submitted orders to" option?
Trusting "Weasel Bob's Computers Online" simply because he's got a cert signed by Verisign is just crazy.
My point is, sure you want your bank's site to encrypt the sessions, but more importantly you want to know what they do with the data once they have it -- and determining this has nothing to do with SSL certs and CA's.
Or put another way, I can SSH into a lot of different boxes, some mine, some friends, some ISPs. All of it is encrypted, but I don't save the same time of data on my ISPs box as I do on mine because once it's there, it's not encrypted...
Seems like it would be nice if websites/browsers worked the same way. Encrypt the traffic and that's it.
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There's a difference between being *able* to buy something and being able to *afford* to buy something... credit can be a nasty thing.
"Last time I checked, I didn't need to compile Office2000 from source, and it installed just by popping the CD in and answering a few questions."
:-)
You mean the office where you pop the CD in, wait, answer some questions, watch it install, reboot to complete installation, reboot again, then go to the windows update site and install all sorts of updates and patches -- one at a time because they are all "special" -- have it ask for the office CD for each one -- which is in the drive, but for some silly reason it won't find it, reboot, reboot, reboot, etc...
and we're done. Now open up word and select some menu and have it tell you that this isn't installed and where is the office cd?
Yes... simple.
seems the easiest thing would be to get people to use private networks for everything that doesn't need to be reachable via the net... probably not going to happen, but it would help.
"Really good designers design what people want and are humble about it."
:)
I'd have to say that really good designers design what people *need*. There are many times though when that person doesn't realize that they need it.
Although, I also know a lot of designers who think they are a little too "brilliant"
Forget md5... just give the source files to my mom. She taught english for 15 years so she'll know if they are the same or not, but she won't have the slightest clue what it's about so no one will have to worry about her stealing it :-)
Do what I do... if it comes with a "no postage necessary" return envelope, tear it up, put it in the envelope and mail it back to them. I asked the post office if they minded and they said nope, they get paid...
seems if enough people did this then the signal to noise ratio would be high enough that maybe just maybe they'd stop.
in any event, it sure makes me feel better.
No, it was Al Gore...
If earthlink looked for mailing list headers or signs that the message is a mailing list they could allow it through... at least for awhile to avoid the challenge responses to mailing lists...
ugh.
Try soekris for a small, queit compact-flash based router... I'm about to try one and a friend uses them all the time for vpn's without problems...
www.soekris.com
How about a couple of tons of Hornel Spam instead? :)
> The color calibration just isn't there yet,
The flipside is that if your target audience is using an LCD and your doing online graphic design, you need to take them into account. I use an LCD all day and there are quite a few sites where the color changes are so subtle I don't see a difference... can make for some odd experiences sometimes.
Very nicely, bring these things up with HR. not in a technical sense, but in a potential employee lawsuit sense. Get it documented and then leave it at that.
Hopefully the head of HR will realize the danger and insist on action being taken.
It doesn't even need to be "out of area" purchases... it's happened to me twice. First time my girlfriend came back from studying abroad and I took her on a shopping spree... they wanted to know if in fact I had purchased almost a *lot* of women's clothes :)
Second time was when I bought her wedding ring with a card I rarely use...
This is your honeymoon... don't take any chances unless you like your couch :)
A good family friend of ours is a travel agent.. she booked our honeymoon and a couple of other trips. What is great is that she knows *us* and what *we* like. We just need to tell her where we want to go and when and she does the rest. She finds the right hotels, etc... to suit us.
Sure it might cost a little more, but it's worth it in my mind.
I'd recommend finding a travel agent that will get to know you and your tastes... it just makes things simpler in the long run.
First question of the faq...
t ml #1.1
http://www.us.postgresql.org/docs/faq-english.h
Yes.
http://razor.sourceforge.net/
A little more work, but if you've got your own domain, create subdomains for email addresses (ie. ph@slashdot.domain.com) and use that email on slashdot. Then if and when slashdot sells my email address (just an example) and I get spam to that address, I know who was responsible. I can also just remove the domain completely and then future spams won't even reach me as DNS won't resolve.
Doesn't have to be that specific, you could just to ph@sub1.domain.com and once it goes bad, kill it.
At a previous job, I was the sole sysadmin, dba, developer, and general tech support (only cause I was the only one that knew how to fix things) for a 4M hits/day site.
I told them it was a bad situation... if I ever left, or got sick, etc. they were screwed.
They realized they were short staffed (even if just for redunancy) when I took a vacation and suddenly nothing was getting done. More importantly it made *them* look bad to their bosses. Then they finally realized they needed to hire a "clone" in case I was out, sick, left, etc...
>> So users can use whatever damn platform they want. If you wanna go crazy and put X on your box, and that's not the company's party line, fine, as long as you don't expect ANY platform specific support, I don't care.
:), but you *will* support that system even if you say you won't. The first time the PHB needs something from that person and that person's computer if screwed up, you can bet that you'll be there trying to fix it.
I hate being told what to use as much as anybody (heck, my wife *quit* her last job because they were going to make her use Outlook... for shared calendering... on a Mac! ha ha
So there are good reasons to mandate certain things...
The UW still uses it... not sure what the name of the cluster is now, but it used to be if you logged into homer you were presented with a menu:
E - Email
S - Shell
L - Logout
and Email was pine.
> And in other news, drivers ed classes will now require that student rebuild an engine.
That might be a little extreme, but teaching them how to check the oil, change a tire, add basic fluids would make a lot of sense.
In a previous job we all had to use NeXT's... and all had a builtin microphone... the boss would hold closed door meetings all the time and one of my collegues wanted to know what was going on so as the sysadmin he'd turn on the boss' microphone, send the output over the net to his machine and out his speakers.
:)
Came in handy when he started talking layoffs
http://www.lgappliances.com/cgi-bin/product.cgi?id =6
That's my point... people need to use some other method to determine that the site they are visiting is secure/trustworthy/okay/etc. beyond the fact that Verisign thinks it is. And it's clear that you can't trust Verisign...
:)
We're saying the same thing, just differently
I don't know... all an SSL cert does is encrypt traffic b/n your browser and the server. What happens once it gets to the server is completely unknown to you (and the CA certainly doesn't care).
How many shopping carts have you seen that have an "email the submitted orders to" option?
Trusting "Weasel Bob's Computers Online" simply because he's got a cert signed by Verisign is just crazy.
My point is, sure you want your bank's site to encrypt the sessions, but more importantly you want to know what they do with the data once they have it -- and determining this has nothing to do with SSL certs and CA's.
Or put another way, I can SSH into a lot of different boxes, some mine, some friends, some ISPs. All of it is encrypted, but I don't save the same time of data on my ISPs box as I do on mine because once it's there, it's not encrypted...
Seems like it would be nice if websites/browsers worked the same way. Encrypt the traffic and that's it.