Non-parents, what are the rules that chap your hide the worst?
I hated it when my parrents would try to give me guide lines on when to use the computer. "Don't be up at 11 using the computer". That kind of thing doesn't help much.
If you ever get in that situation for your kids, tell them that it's late and give them the option of turning off the computer for the night. If they say no, then remind them they still need to get up at 6 the next morning for school, and stick by it.
Learning by cause and effect rather than a parrent laying down the law is usually more effective (it just created resent for me).
It's definatly not an office, but its still a building. It has elevators, resturants, and entertainment areas. I would love to argue semantics, but it just always pains me to hear people proclaim their building the worlds tallest.
Especially when there has already been one since 1976.
Valve might want to take a look at this lawsuit considering their potentially devestaing loss reported earlier today. According to Gabe Newell, from whom the source code of their latest was stolen, a hacker gained access to his machine "via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane."
Ironically, in the leaked source code for HL2 there are many buffer overflows ready to be exploited.
Prehaps, since the game isn't ready for release the buffer overflows were not high on the priority list. But if Valve sued Microsoft for problems in their code, would Valve have several thousand suits coming their way for one of these exploits?
Simulate an 'address not found' daemon in a reply to the spam sender. It may not always work...
The thing about bounced email is that it may only make a diffrence to "clean spammers". The other 95% of spammers forge other peoples email addresses as the from address.
Now imagine that you are the poor unsuspecting person in the from line. You would not enjoy recieving a few hundred thousand bounced emails on a regular basis.
The reporter seems unable to distinguish between a "hard drive" and an entire computer; one wonders if his grasp of other details is as weak.
After reading the last line of the article it brings me to wonder about this line...
"I ask him about his old system -- the nine hard drives bound together with a superfast connection speed that could pump out millions of e-mail messages in an hour"
Nine [computers] bound together with a super fast connection? Does he mean a super fast internet connection? The DSL connection they spoke of in the past?
Or following with the reporters tech knowlege I'll assume he's speaking of the 56k connection.
They need to run third party applications like Business Objects, Crystal Reports, custom stuff created in PeopleSoft or SAP or Oracle, etc. They don't need education in using the operating system for the most part.
I didn't say that the user nessicarily needs to know the ins and outs of linux. However it's taken 4 generations of windows operating systems (depending on how you count) to make things buisness-friendly as they are in NT/XP. I personally don't know of an out-of-the-box system that offers such dummy-proof methods as some employers choose to employ, such as just locking a user to the desktop and running those Buisness Applications.
If you sat a someone down at ANY operating system they're going to be curious as to the limits. After all, if you need to educate users in Windows on how to "operate word" or "send email" you don't think people will want to get under the GUI of their new OS so to speak?
Linux is all about versatility. Security settings can be adjusted but Linux isn't Windows. There's more to it than just the new-operating smell and the power it provides administrators. The gains are two fold, for the administrator and the user. You just need to teach the user what they need to know.
I think thats the big pro and con of using "open source" operating systems in a buisness environment. It calls for alot of professional Linux (or equivilant) administrators to be able to properly handle the issues of the end users.
Of course it will open up job oppertunities, but as a system admin do you really want to be called out to worker desktops because the user say, accidently chmoded something and now can't run an application they need?
Ok, that was a bad example. But moving to "open source" is only the first step. Next step is user education, and thats going to be a big step to climb.
Amazon wants to be google, but...A9 isn't trying to develop an all-purpose search engine that indexes billions of Web pages. The startup instead is zeroing on a one of search engines' sweet spots -- e-commerce.
Will Amazon give priority to Amazon pages/products when consumers search A9 for items?
Canada (or Provinces of Canada) has been charing sales tax for a while on items purchaced online, but it was never really an issue. You won't notice it after a while.
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Yes, finally someone had the balls to answer this question that has been wracking the minds of scientists for ages!
Someone get this man a nobel.
Non-parents, what are the rules that chap your hide the worst? I hated it when my parrents would try to give me guide lines on when to use the computer. "Don't be up at 11 using the computer". That kind of thing doesn't help much. If you ever get in that situation for your kids, tell them that it's late and give them the option of turning off the computer for the night. If they say no, then remind them they still need to get up at 6 the next morning for school, and stick by it. Learning by cause and effect rather than a parrent laying down the law is usually more effective (it just created resent for me).
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Poor guy! Went from lots of money and computers to actually having to leave the house!? Shame
I can see the slogans now... "Magneto-Optical! Floppy drive size, floppy drive speed."
(go for the USB 2.0 version)
We should immediatly suspend all building projects higher than 60 meters. The risk of terrorism is just too great.
As well we need to halt all distribution of Linux since it clearly infringes on SCO's IP. The risk of law suits is just too great.
It's definatly not an office, but its still a building. It has elevators, resturants, and entertainment areas. I would love to argue semantics, but it just always pains me to hear people proclaim their building the worlds tallest.
Especially when there has already been one since 1976.
I would like to note that the CN-tower in Canada at 553m is the worlds tallest free-standing building, and still is.
...to waste on 10 monitors, can someone please mod the other 8 redundant? ;)
Ironically, in the leaked source code for HL2 there are many buffer overflows ready to be exploited.
One such example of this is in net_ws.cpp:
Prehaps, since the game isn't ready for release the buffer overflows were not high on the priority list. But if Valve sued Microsoft for problems in their code, would Valve have several thousand suits coming their way for one of these exploits?The thing about bounced email is that it may only make a diffrence to "clean spammers". The other 95% of spammers forge other peoples email addresses as the from address.
Now imagine that you are the poor unsuspecting person in the from line. You would not enjoy recieving a few hundred thousand bounced emails on a regular basis.
After reading the last line of the article it brings me to wonder about this line...
"I ask him about his old system -- the nine hard drives bound together with a superfast connection speed that could pump out millions of e-mail messages in an hour"
Nine [computers] bound together with a super fast connection? Does he mean a super fast internet connection? The DSL connection they spoke of in the past?
Or following with the reporters tech knowlege I'll assume he's speaking of the 56k connection.
Funny that this historic date falls on a time that the GPL gets a full vetting by SCO.
I didn't say that the user nessicarily needs to know the ins and outs of linux. However it's taken 4 generations of windows operating systems (depending on how you count) to make things buisness-friendly as they are in NT/XP. I personally don't know of an out-of-the-box system that offers such dummy-proof methods as some employers choose to employ, such as just locking a user to the desktop and running those Buisness Applications.
If you sat a someone down at ANY operating system they're going to be curious as to the limits. After all, if you need to educate users in Windows on how to "operate word" or "send email" you don't think people will want to get under the GUI of their new OS so to speak?
Linux is all about versatility. Security settings can be adjusted but Linux isn't Windows. There's more to it than just the new-operating smell and the power it provides administrators. The gains are two fold, for the administrator and the user. You just need to teach the user what they need to know.
I think thats the big pro and con of using "open source" operating systems in a buisness environment. It calls for alot of professional Linux (or equivilant) administrators to be able to properly handle the issues of the end users.
Of course it will open up job oppertunities, but as a system admin do you really want to be called out to worker desktops because the user say, accidently chmoded something and now can't run an application they need?
Ok, that was a bad example. But moving to "open source" is only the first step. Next step is user education, and thats going to be a big step to climb.
Amazon wants to be google, but ...A9 isn't trying to develop an all-purpose search engine that indexes billions of Web pages. The startup instead is zeroing on a one of search engines' sweet spots -- e-commerce.
Will Amazon give priority to Amazon pages/products when consumers search A9 for items?
Canada (or Provinces of Canada) has been charing sales tax for a while on items purchaced online, but it was never really an issue. You won't notice it after a while.