Especially since the hardware "firewalls" that most consumers purchase are buggy NAT layers, not firewalls at all. What you need to do is get real security configured properly - not trash. As long as people try to do security without a clue or the right equipment, you're going to see this crap.
Stories about problems in BlackIce have been circulating for months - Another case of the "Microsoft syndrome"... if we ignore it, it will go away. Pay no attention to that bug behind the curtain...
In a perfect world, you'd be absolutely correct - but I certainly don't expect some poor underpaid taiwanese engineer to understand what I want. Let me be completely serious for a moment (although it's not going to sound like it). We all know that intelligent people are in the minority. Any doubts about that can be resolved by watching television. So, realistically, our best hope is for the manufacturers who have to appeal to the "morass market" to leave us an opening.
Then how about modifying a product to do what it should have been designed to do? Real simple example - why don't window mounted air conditioners have REAL thermostats that you can set to a temperature in degrees? Mine does - I built it. But if the original manufacturer had been just a little forward thinking I could have done it with 3 inexpensive components rather than 20 more expensive ones. And why don't the manufacturers do it right in the first place?
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With every release, PHP introduces incompatabilities with previous releases. I've written the same application three times - and counting. When has perl done something that brainless? PHP is a nice niche langauge - very useful for certain applications. Perl is generally much more useful and the development team doesn't keep shooting us all in the foot!
How do you ruin complete utter crap? I've been stuck with trying to use / repair a few eMachines in my career... I honestly cannot think of a worse piece of junk. Every single design decision between cheap and useable went to cheap. They aren't the right shape for wheel chocks, nor heavy enough for boat anchors, and they certainly aren't anything like computers!
I never had a very high opinion of Gateway (too much "we'll sell you anything, but use whatever componants we can get cheap this week to build it."), but this really sinks them.
I found this article interesting and educational, until I went to look at the recommended dvdauthor site. What your article says dvdauthor supports and will support bears little relation to what I found. Was that the package that you were talking about or is there another dvdauthor package?
My wife and I own 2 MP3 players (Sony and RCA respectively) and I've converted every bit of music in the house to MP3s, from vinyl and 7" reels onward. I'll go thru all that again - to say nothing of throwing away almost $600.00 worth of electronics that work perfectly - the day hell not only freezes over but hosts the winter olympics. If the RIAA doesn't like that, they can kiss my hairy &%$.
Not necessarily - I've known a lot of American born, American educated idiots with all kinds of degrees and certs who I wouldn't trust with a pair of scissors. For years I've held a theory that when they give you a Ph.d in the US, it's a trade - they give you the paper, you turn in your common sense. As for "Joes pawnshop and school of data processing", I've run across many, MANY graduates of that too... I'm usually the one who gets hired to go clean up the incredible mess they caused. At about half what they earn, and then I get fired when everything is ticking over smoothly.
I've said for years - certs prove that you have enough money go to to a school, they don't prove you learned anything while you were there. Unfortunately, the suits in charge of hiring and firing know less than nothing about what's actually involved in keeping the computers running. Half of them don't even know what's involved in keeping the COMPANY running. They can read a balance sheet, but not the writing on the wall.
When I submitted the same story last night (and was rejected, by the way - has anyone noticed that the slashdot moderators are getting even MORE capricious and arbitrary?) , there was a mention that part of the payload includes the source code (Visual Basic, apparently) to the worm. This should be fun - all sorts of people who wouldn't know how to write a worm now have the source for 'the fastest spreading worm ever'. I predict that ISP level virus monitoring and blocking is less than a year away.
You ABSOLUTELY want to hire a lawyer. I've had the exact same problem with several contracts, and if you don't clear things up right up front, you can cost yourself more than you made in income.
A bit of further advice based on my experiences - check out the 'non-competition' clause for after you leave! Are you allowed to engage in the same sort of work elsewhere? Geographic and time limits? I almost got nailed that way when I was starting out - if I had signed the thing I would have had to move out of state when I left the company, or else change fields completely.
I wouldn't (and don't) trust my government (USA), or ANY government to police what I can and cannot talk about, listen to, view, or publish on the internet. Frankly, the way the conservatives are rampaging over civil rights in this country, I'm about ready to emigrate... and you want to hand them MORE power to censor speech and try to mandate what happens between consenting adults?
Go live in China for a few years if you want to see the results of what you're suggesting up close and in person.
Well, my speed isn't 3MBs - I'm up against the laws of physics, being within 50 feet of the farthest you can be from the CO and still get DSL... But I pay a lot less than $50.00 per month, and I have a static IP 768/384K with downtime less than 1 hour per year.
On my DSL line, No one gives a hang what I run. I have my own DNS, mail and web (hosting 3 domains) servers, and a bunch of other stuff.
I tried a cable modem recently - Cablevision. (technically Lightpath - I paid extra for "business class service"). Static IP: not available, dynamic only. Inbound Port 80: blocked. The IP address was registered somwehere - damned if I could figure out where - as a dynamic IP, so half the internet was blocking mail from my servers. Reliability: Down around 2 hours a week. Price: 3 times what the DSL line costs.
Oh yeah, sell me another cable modem... when hell freezes over. DSL is the way to do it.
Probably less than a month until someone comes out with a way to block the ads. After which, half of the people complaining about the ads will install the blocker and go about their business, the other half will just keep complaining.
Remember, if it's in a stream of bytes, it can be filtered and adjusted... Don't get yourself in an uproar. You are allowed to pay just as much attention to the rules as big companies do - just don't get caught.
That's because no one expects the program to be funded - it's just an election year promise that will go nowhere. He's killed the Hubble for nothing at all... The same reason he attacked Iraq.
I've spent the last 7 hours fighting with a Windows XP system. Restoring backups, uninstalling one stupid app (Norton Systemworks) and trying to install a newer version of the same app. 68 desktop.ini files all over the system, and something went blooey in the register sometime in the last 9 months...
I just can't upgrade this app - the install of the new version keeps bombing with various interesting error messages ("Cannot find source files"... on the CD?? Halfway THRU the install??) Cleaned out the registry, you name it. Not happening.
Trying to update one stupid expired application to the newest version, and I have to spend the next 3 days reinstalling world+dog. 11 hours is way too low an estimate. Have I told you how much I LOVE Windows?
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Especially since the hardware "firewalls" that most consumers purchase are buggy NAT layers, not firewalls at all. What you need to do is get real security configured properly - not trash. As long as people try to do security without a clue or the right equipment, you're going to see this crap.
Stories about problems in BlackIce have been circulating for months - Another case of the "Microsoft syndrome"... if we ignore it, it will go away. Pay no attention to that bug behind the curtain...
Yikes!
In a perfect world, you'd be absolutely correct - but I certainly don't expect some poor underpaid taiwanese engineer to understand what I want. Let me be completely serious for a moment (although it's not going to sound like it). We all know that intelligent people are in the minority. Any doubts about that can be resolved by watching television. So, realistically, our best hope is for the manufacturers who have to appeal to the "morass market" to leave us an opening.
Then how about modifying a product to do what it should have been designed to do? Real simple example - why don't window mounted air conditioners have REAL thermostats that you can set to a temperature in degrees? Mine does - I built it. But if the original manufacturer had been just a little forward thinking I could have done it with 3 inexpensive components rather than 20 more expensive ones. And why don't the manufacturers do it right in the first place?
With every release, PHP introduces incompatabilities with previous releases. I've written the same application three times - and counting. When has perl done something that brainless? PHP is a nice niche langauge - very useful for certain applications. Perl is generally much more useful and the development team doesn't keep shooting us all in the foot!
Ruin eMachines ?????
How do you ruin complete utter crap? I've been stuck with trying to use / repair a few eMachines in my career... I honestly cannot think of a worse piece of junk. Every single design decision between cheap and useable went to cheap.
They aren't the right shape for wheel chocks, nor heavy enough for boat anchors, and they certainly aren't anything like computers!
I never had a very high opinion of Gateway (too much "we'll sell you anything, but use whatever componants we can get cheap this week to build it."), but this really sinks them.
I found this article interesting and educational, until I went to look at the recommended dvdauthor site. What your article says dvdauthor supports and will support bears little relation to what I found. Was that the package that you were talking about or is there another dvdauthor package?
My wife and I own 2 MP3 players (Sony and RCA respectively) and I've converted every bit of music in the house to MP3s, from vinyl and 7" reels onward. I'll go thru all that again - to say nothing of throwing away almost $600.00 worth of electronics that work perfectly - the day hell not only freezes over but hosts the winter olympics. If the RIAA doesn't like that, they can kiss my hairy &%$.
Not necessarily - I've known a lot of American born, American educated idiots with all kinds of degrees and certs who I wouldn't trust with a pair of scissors. For years I've held a theory that when they give you a Ph.d in the US, it's a trade - they give you the paper, you turn in your common sense.
As for "Joes pawnshop and school of data processing", I've run across many, MANY graduates of that too... I'm usually the one who gets hired to go clean up the incredible mess they caused. At about half what they earn, and then I get fired when everything is ticking over smoothly.
I've said for years - certs prove that you have enough money go to to a school, they don't prove you learned anything while you were there. Unfortunately, the suits in charge of hiring and firing know less than nothing about what's actually involved in keeping the computers running. Half of them don't even know what's involved in keeping the COMPANY running. They can read a balance sheet, but not the writing on the wall.
Since the law was written by technical illiterates who wrote a law that didn't actually outlaw spam, I'd say the law is working to spec.
When I submitted the same story last night (and was rejected, by the way - has anyone noticed that the slashdot moderators are getting even MORE capricious and arbitrary?) , there was a mention that part of the payload includes the source code (Visual Basic, apparently) to the worm. This should be fun - all sorts of people who wouldn't know how to write a worm now have the source for 'the fastest spreading worm ever'. I predict that ISP level virus monitoring and blocking is less than a year away.
You ABSOLUTELY want to hire a lawyer. I've had the exact same problem with several contracts, and if you don't clear things up right up front, you can cost yourself more than you made in income.
A bit of further advice based on my experiences - check out the 'non-competition' clause for after you leave! Are you allowed to engage in the same sort of work elsewhere? Geographic and time limits? I almost got nailed that way when I was starting out - if I had signed the thing I would have had to move out of state when I left the company, or else change fields completely.
I wouldn't (and don't) trust my government (USA), or ANY government to police what I can and cannot talk about, listen to, view, or publish on the internet. Frankly, the way the conservatives are rampaging over civil rights in this country, I'm about ready to emigrate... and you want to hand them MORE power to censor speech and try to mandate what happens between consenting adults?
Go live in China for a few years if you want to see the results of what you're suggesting up close and in person.
Well, my speed isn't 3MBs - I'm up against the laws of physics, being within 50 feet of the farthest you can be from the CO and still get DSL... But I pay a lot less than $50.00 per month, and I have a static IP 768/384K with downtime less than 1 hour per year.
On my DSL line, No one gives a hang what I run. I have my own DNS, mail and web (hosting 3 domains) servers, and a bunch of other stuff.
I tried a cable modem recently - Cablevision. (technically Lightpath - I paid extra for "business class service"). Static IP: not available, dynamic only. Inbound Port 80: blocked. The IP address was registered somwehere - damned if I could figure out where - as a dynamic IP, so half the internet was blocking mail from my servers. Reliability: Down around 2 hours a week. Price: 3 times what the DSL line costs.
Oh yeah, sell me another cable modem... when hell freezes over. DSL is the way to do it.
Probably less than a month until someone comes out with a way to block the ads. After which, half of the people complaining about the ads will install the blocker and go about their business, the other half will just keep complaining.
Remember, if it's in a stream of bytes, it can be filtered and adjusted... Don't get yourself in an uproar. You are allowed to pay just as much attention to the rules as big companies do - just don't get caught.
That's because no one expects the program to be funded - it's just an election year promise that will go nowhere. He's killed the Hubble for nothing at all... The same reason he attacked Iraq.
I've spent the last 7 hours fighting with a Windows XP system. Restoring backups, uninstalling one stupid app (Norton Systemworks) and trying to install a newer version of the same app. 68 desktop.ini files all over the system, and something went blooey in the register sometime in the last 9 months...
I just can't upgrade this app - the install of the new version keeps bombing with various interesting error messages ("Cannot find source files"... on the CD?? Halfway THRU the install??) Cleaned out the registry, you name it. Not happening.
Trying to update one stupid expired application to the newest version, and I have to spend the next 3 days reinstalling world+dog. 11 hours is way too low an estimate. Have I told you how much I LOVE Windows?