I don't want to need anyone's "permission" to use software I bought. PERIOD.
Therein lies the problem. You didn't "buy" Windows... you bought a license to use Windows under a prescribed set of circumstances. If you actually "bought" Windows - then I would have to agree with you.
Well, that's one way to keep an OS safe, I guess. Just think how secure Windows would be if Bill Gates focused his vast resources on killing every malware author. Ballmer would probably do the dirty work cheap... just for the thrill of it all.
Why, Bill might even have a few million bucks left over at the end of the day.
The security risk is that an unsuspecting Mac user might run Windows on their home computer and end up loaded w/ spyware & viruses. Yes, virtualization (of Windows) is inherently unsafe.
Could somebody please explain what nanotechnology looks like? I've never actually been able to see any of it, and I want to make sure I am prepared the next time somebody hands me a small metal disk with some nanotechnology embedded it in.
I manage dozens of websites reaching multiple demographics (i.e., business, home users, education, medical, engineering, agri-business, sporting goods). Our sites see roughly 1,000,000 unique visitors each week.
Removing bots out of the stats, on average, I see:
Windows IE: 81%
Windows FF: 11%
Windows NS: 0.1%
Windows OPERA: 0.1%
Linux (all browsers): 1%
Mac OS X (all broswers): 6%
If your site is geared towards highly technical people, expect to see double the FireFox & Linux traffic. If the site is geared towards the average home user, you might only be pissing off 10-12% of your potential customer base by having IE only components. I can't imagine many businesses surviving very long by pisssing off 1 out of every 9 customers... oh, wait, Microsoft... forget I said that.
Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7
Brief Description:The Internet Explorer 7 Blocker Toolkit enables IT Administrators to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites.
One one of my systems, I had previously downloaded and installed a tool from Microsoft which was supposed to prevent the automatic update from happening. Surprise, surprise, this morning, this particular system was prompting me to install IE7 and it gave me big nasty warning messages that I was harming my computer and causing starving babies in Africa to get hives because I refused to install it... or something like that... who ever reads those things anyway?
The problem isn't that MS doesn't offer a non-IE way to conduct system updates. The problem is that MS allows IE to conduct system updates in the first place. 85% of the world's population uses IE as their default browser. It doesn't matter if there exists an alternate method for updating the OS. What matters is that 85% of the world is using their OS update utility as a web browser - that's just scary.
I'd be willing to bet that Mac OS X/Linux users would have a lot more security problems if we used "SoftwareUpdate.app" (in the case of OS X) or "sudo apt-get" (in the case of Linux) as our default web browser.
Thankfully, only Microsoft has been daft enough to use a single piece of software to both browse the web and tinker w/ the core of the operating system.
Until somebody in Redmond decides to develop a standalone app for system updates and limits IE to being a web browser ONLY, Windows users will continue to be plagued by this crap.
Maybe it's just me, but I say "Heck yes, it's working."
When the Do Not Call list was first opened up, I immediately added my home phone, cell phone, and 3 business numbers. Within a few months, the combined telemarketing calls dropped from 15-20 per day down to 1-2 per week (not including the "legal calls from political groups, etc.).
Now when a telemarketer calls, I simply say, "Are you aware that you have called a number on the Federal Do Not Call list?". Every single one of the telemarketers that I have asked that question has apologized, and (with one exception), I have not heard from the same company again.
The down-side of this is that the amount of junk faxes I receive has tripled in the same time frame.
The current IE7 beta fails miserably. It's worse than FireFox, Opera & Safari, but it is definitely a step up from IE6.
Being a web developer, I have been testing everything I make w/ IE7 since it became available to me. IE7 is by far the least screwy browser MS has made so far (not that they set the bar very high). So far, I have not been able to find anything that IE7 breaks any worse than IE6 currently does. In fact, I find myself tweaking my code more to accomodate the quirks and inconsistencies in IE6 than IE7.
Acid test not withstanding, overall, IE7 ain't half bad in its handling of "real world" web pages. Is it perfect? hell no! But at least MS actually managed to improve something for once.
How does "expansion" differ from "movement"? It seems that if a balloon is expanding, the surfaces of that balloon are actually moving - as are the contents of the balloon. I'm just don't "grok" the difference.
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Since when did Zend "create" PHP?
Next year, they'll tell us that Moore's Law will end in 5-7.5 years.
I don't want to need anyone's "permission" to use software I bought. PERIOD.
Therein lies the problem. You didn't "buy" Windows ... you bought a license to use Windows under a prescribed set of circumstances. If you actually "bought" Windows - then I would have to agree with you.
-- written on OS X 10.4.10
Well, that's one way to keep an OS safe, I guess. Just think how secure Windows would be if Bill Gates focused his vast resources on killing every malware author. Ballmer would probably do the dirty work cheap ... just for the thrill of it all.
Why, Bill might even have a few million bucks left over at the end of the day.
The security risk is that an unsuspecting Mac user might run Windows on their home computer and end up loaded w/ spyware & viruses. Yes, virtualization (of Windows) is inherently unsafe.
Dead cat, huh? Of course, you realize that more people will now attempt to RTFA than at any other time in /. history
Could somebody please explain what nanotechnology looks like? I've never actually been able to see any of it, and I want to make sure I am prepared the next time somebody hands me a small metal disk with some nanotechnology embedded it in.
Personally, I like my women like I like my coffee ... cold, dark and bitter.
Sure, they give the software away, but they make it up in volume!
I manage dozens of websites reaching multiple demographics (i.e., business, home users, education, medical, engineering, agri-business, sporting goods). Our sites see roughly 1,000,000 unique visitors each week.
Removing bots out of the stats, on average, I see:
If your site is geared towards highly technical people, expect to see double the FireFox & Linux traffic. If the site is geared towards the average home user, you might only be pissing off 10-12% of your potential customer base by having IE only components. I can't imagine many businesses surviving very long by pisssing off 1 out of every 9 customers ... oh, wait, Microsoft ... forget I said that.
I haven't had to adjust my AppleTalk settings since - oh I dunno - 1997. Gee, this guy's really in tune w/ Mac OS X.
It seems obvious to me that 0 goes into 1 an infinite number of times (with a little room left over).
Therefore: 1 divided by 0 = infinity + 1
To wit: 0 = infinity!
That's at least as logical as anything in this article.
Dis is a nice operating system you'se gots here. It'd be a shame if sumtin' were to happen to it ...
Perhaps the Linux mascot should be changed. Instead of a penguin, we could use a lemming.
Well, I guess I can kiss my karma goodbye, now.
Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7
Brief Description:The Internet Explorer 7 Blocker Toolkit enables IT Administrators to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites.
One one of my systems, I had previously downloaded and installed a tool from Microsoft which was supposed to prevent the automatic update from happening. Surprise, surprise, this morning, this particular system was prompting me to install IE7 and it gave me big nasty warning messages that I was harming my computer and causing starving babies in Africa to get hives because I refused to install it ... or something like that ... who ever reads those things anyway?
To bastardize an old saying about lawyers ...
"99% of what Microsoft does seems to be giving the other 1% a bad reputation."
The problem isn't that MS doesn't offer a non-IE way to conduct system updates. The problem is that MS allows IE to conduct system updates in the first place. 85% of the world's population uses IE as their default browser. It doesn't matter if there exists an alternate method for updating the OS. What matters is that 85% of the world is using their OS update utility as a web browser - that's just scary.
I'd be willing to bet that Mac OS X/Linux users would have a lot more security problems if we used "SoftwareUpdate.app" (in the case of OS X) or "sudo apt-get" (in the case of Linux) as our default web browser.
Thankfully, only Microsoft has been daft enough to use a single piece of software to both browse the web and tinker w/ the core of the operating system.
Until somebody in Redmond decides to develop a standalone app for system updates and limits IE to being a web browser ONLY, Windows users will continue to be plagued by this crap.
Maybe it's just me, but I say "Heck yes, it's working."
When the Do Not Call list was first opened up, I immediately added my home phone, cell phone, and 3 business numbers. Within a few months, the combined telemarketing calls dropped from 15-20 per day down to 1-2 per week (not including the "legal calls from political groups, etc.).
Now when a telemarketer calls, I simply say, "Are you aware that you have called a number on the Federal Do Not Call list?". Every single one of the telemarketers that I have asked that question has apologized, and (with one exception), I have not heard from the same company again.
The down-side of this is that the amount of junk faxes I receive has tripled in the same time frame.
The current IE7 beta fails miserably. It's worse than FireFox, Opera & Safari, but it is definitely a step up from IE6.
Being a web developer, I have been testing everything I make w/ IE7 since it became available to me. IE7 is by far the least screwy browser MS has made so far (not that they set the bar very high). So far, I have not been able to find anything that IE7 breaks any worse than IE6 currently does. In fact, I find myself tweaking my code more to accomodate the quirks and inconsistencies in IE6 than IE7.
Acid test not withstanding, overall, IE7 ain't half bad in its handling of "real world" web pages. Is it perfect? hell no! But at least MS actually managed to improve something for once.
Well, we've got to do something with all of those things. The US cerainly doesn't seem to have much use for them anymore.
They could catch Ossamma if somebody could just convince him to sign up for a free month of AOL service ...
Innocent question here...
How does "expansion" differ from "movement"? It seems that if a balloon is expanding, the surfaces of that balloon are actually moving - as are the contents of the balloon. I'm just don't "grok" the difference.
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