According to Microsoft, the password protection feature on Word is not intended
to be secure, but should be regarded as a means to protect documents against accidental modification. I use Word and don't ever recall being advised of this, but then I suppose the EULA does warn users never to actually rely on the software for anything important.
I never expected the protection in Word to be anything special, but sometimes (as shown here by Dell) it's better to have no security than false security because that way you take greater care.
But for those of you who never RTA, here is what was the highlight for me:
1.) Open a protected document in MS Word
2.) Save as "Web Page (*.htm; *.html)", close Word
3.) Open html-document in any Text-Editor
4.) Search "" tag, the line reads something like
that: ABCDEF01
Microsoft outlines three reasons for Windows being cheaper than Linux.
These are:
1.Lower staffing expenses
2.More efficiency per dollar with WinTel than with a Linux Mainframe.
3.Reduced development costs on Windows.
Number one may or may not be true depending on your circumstances. However, it has little to do with the technical performance of Linux and more to do with people's familiarity with Windows over Linux. However, as I'm still downloading the PDFs I can't comment on their sources for this. I will say that if true on the whole, then it is certainly a situation that will change rapidly even over 2004. I will also say that it is very specific to the company involved. There are plenty of
companies out there that are more familiar with *NIX than with Windows and for these people the situation would be reversed.
2. I can't comment on this one too easily either until the report is downloaded,
but this seems a flawed reason. The summary on the Microsoft report states
--- $40.25 per megabit of throughput per second.
---$1.79 per peak request per second.
I don't know if these are averages of different systems or what, but to give a figure like this, with no comparison figure for the Linux system (or specs on the Linux system, was it Apache, how was it configured etc) is of dubious value. I would have thought that the areas limited by cost on your server were in the bandwidth / network infrastructure against which server speed was unlikely to hold you back. Please also note that these are using Microsoft benchmarks.
3.This is an equally dubious claim. I have developed on both Windows and UNIX platforms and I can testify to the ease of use of Visual Studio, but not.NET so far. However, on the UNIX system I was working on a large scale telecomms management application (which incidentally we sold to Microsoft - yes they use UNIX) and I
would not have wanted to write it on a Windows platform. Number three depends on
two things: What it is you are developing and or course, what your programmers know.
To summarize, there is a lot of 'it depends,' involved in these tests.
The parent is right - go cold Turkey. Also tell people whose respect you care about what you are doing so that you'll lose face if you give in.
You might also consider taking Ginseng to compensate for the stimulant withdrawal. If you ignore the dosage on the packet and stuff yourself with it, you can get a pretty good buzz too;)
The Arab oil embargo could have seriously crippled the American economy. That alone is reason enough to go to war.
So by this chaps reasoning, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was justified because the US was blocking Japan from buying oil? Bear in mind that Japan was at war and facing invasion without that oil to fuel their army rather than just an economic downturn.
This fellow is cold.
In terms or Iraq, this ignores the issue about the US and UK government lying about the reasons for going to war. If they came out and said they wanted to start a war in order to annexe the oil supplies then their electorates could debate that. Of course they would be horrified at the idea and that is why the WMD story was used in Britain and why Bush tried to link Saddam with 9/11.
Is when Allies release previously classified documents, that could be potentially quite embarrasing to other Allies
Oh, similar to Bush and the CIA giving up on the WMD claims while poor little Blair is still running around claiming they'll be found. Oh it makes me laugh. (in a black sort of way).
Teeny-bit off topic, but have a look at this. It tells the funny little story of how Paul Bremmer acidentally called Tony Blair a liar.
I posted this earlier, but this is a better place for it. An article on the snub list can be found here.
A knighthood might get you respect locally, but there are people in and from other [most] parts of the world for whom the recognition of the 'Empire' is less than respectable.
Could someone please explain to me the British fetish for its Monarchy ?
It's a media fetish more than anything. Oh yes, there are many who care about the royals, but there are also many who find it somewhere between boring and nauseating such as ME! I'm sure not all US citizens have rushed out to buy the Jessica Lynch autobiography, but the media still went crazy about her.
All I remember of the Princess Di funeral is wanting to do my washing but the laundrette was shut because of it.
Anyway, on-topic, have a look at the number of people who want no part of the honours system. Good for them. I'd love the chance to turn down a knighthood.
Many people in Britain have no idea how little respect they have in many parts of the world. Most people in this country don't know anything about the Opium Wars, or where Britain sell arms to. Ask the average Brit about the occupation of India and you'll get some crap about how lucky they were because we gave them railroads.
I was born in North Wales, which is hardly the Heart of Empire, but I still wish I could distance myself from the history of this country more.
I don't know how much a wind turbine costs, but would a mesh cage on the front add a big percentage? 'Better to look stupid than to massacre wildlife,' as the saying goes.
If windfarms are less environmentally harmful that pumping out billions of tonnes of pollutants as seems likely though, then surely we should go with the principle of minimum harm.
There ought to be some smart people who will point out flaws in whatever desing they come up and send it back to board untill time stops. It's just too dangerous.
I'm feeling cynical today, but consider this... There is no money to be made from not doing something. There is no status for the project managers, there is no incentive for budget-hungry beauracrats to say at the start "this is a bad idea - lets just put the money back into paying police officers."
And most especially, politicians must be seen to be doing something. A gadget like this will look good on them and if it's crap, then it can quietly be forgotten.
As I say though, I'm cynical today. I'm sure that you're right.
Why does everyone assume a private business has to or should be involved anyways
A private company seems good at first because the government would be tempted to meddle and preserve itself. It only takes 1x10-34 seconds however to realize that putting it in a private company will only move the problem to one degree away.
Ultimately, the only safe solution is if the voters have the ability to scrap a given voting system if it fails them. For this, they must have access to all the relevent information and the power to address any failings. Neither government nor private interests will be sufficient without this.
For the public to be sufficiently aware and responsible enough to address any failings however, they need to be educated and to believe that they can change things. You'll be fighting the government itself if you try to bring that about though.
Sort of fresh Tortellini with Four Cheese compared to Moore's Alphabeti Spaghetti, but still of the pasta family.
Still, I prefer pasta to a McMurdoch bullburger so I'm not complaining.
Oh the poll is there, but... oh this is great... it doesn't appear in some browsers. I went there with Opera 7.0 and got almost plain text. On a hunch though I told Opera to identify as MSIE 6.0 and *Wow* what a difference.
Graphics, ads, and a poll. Amazing! That means the site has been deliberately designed to look bad in Opera. Possibly others too.
This pales in comparison to the less visible controls that have been introduced recently (e-mail snooping, database consolidation, increasing investigative powers) but it's still not nice.
I'd be surprised if the government monolith is quick enough to keep ahead of the hackers and criminals on this one. Result - false expectations of safety and only the innocent being subject to this. Though less common, I expect non-police officers will get access and be able to use this system on people from time to time. Nice.
Of course, all money is initially distributed into the economy as loans from the central bank (Bank of England, Federal Reserve, whichever), so technically speaking, all those notes are markers of debt.
The more you have the greater your debt. Don't think about it too much until the effects of Christmas drinking have work off.
It is a grammatical error but it has a five syllable balance which neither the past perfect nor imperfect have and so the poetry is better.
You'll find that Shakespeare (to pick the most famous example) relies on a multiple of five rule. It's one of those rules of poetry, like having three arguments. When you write a speech you'll find you have a greater impact if you say "w results in x,y and z' rather than '...x and y.'
It's an interesting field. Read some of the classical poets to get a field for this.
Oh yes, the strategy in all the movies is dire. But better by far than Gandalfs flashbang has to be the bit in RotK where Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli charge the enemy and the Orcs are all 'what the Hell - chop 'em to pieces,' and then suddenly it's all like the Boys are Back.
Thanks mate. Would you also have the Administrator password for the whole network and all machines be a single OBVIOUS lower case english word for months while you re-located MS SQL Server to the same box as Exchange and misconfigured the back-up tools? Because that's all our SysAdmin did.
It was Tiny personal firewall actually, not ZoneAlarm and I had a valid reason for needing to block ports. If this is such a terrible thing then why, after I left, did the same fellow want to install BlackICE on all company machines inside the 10k cisco firewall?
Anyway, you're surely not suggesting that my little firewall could interfere with the fat Cisco box that sat on our connection to the outside world are you? Because that was the point of my post - it was a made up excuse that would be difficult to explain to a jury.
I had four days left, due to leave at the end of the week. Unfortunately, UK employment law is uninterested in cases like this unless you have worked for the company for over a year. I had been there eight months.
It's pretty persuasive to future employers and I shall raise it at interviews (along with the excellent references I get from the people I actually worked with rather than those who fired me). There's not much else I can do under UK law though.
If that's possible then yes, he should sue. It might be extremely difficult however.
I have some experience in this as I was fired as a security risk. The cause? I installed a firewall on my PC. The formal letter stated that this could interfere with their network firewall (a Cisco box that was very over-the-top for a small development company of twenty people).
Of course that wasn't the real reason. It was the refusal to work unpaid overtime and perhaps a tendancy to correct my boss that got me out. However, how do I go about getting this fixed in court? No matter how expert I am in IT (and I am quite expert), they can through an 'expert' back at me in court, and how will a judge know the difference.
And aside from that, what would be the charge? I'd already resigned and was working out my notice. The sole result is that any reference from my former employer now states that I was fired for 'Gross Misconduct.' The burden is on me to convince people that it wasn't fair.
A very nasty situation all round.
I wish the poster good luck if he finds a way to sue, but beware of getting into a credentials battle with various "experts," because most courts wont be able to assess your case on the basis of technical details.
I bought myself a subscription basically because I read/. so often that I wanted to help out. (Other than with my witty and insightful posts, of course).
And then I found that it blocked all the ads! This is the one site I've EVER visited that I find the sponsors interesting!
Yep - you can still get 333MHz. I meant that you don't see them in the high street shops as full packages, marketed and sold by the reputable chains. E-bay is hardly the mass-market. I'm talking from the POV of the general public. It's a given that those on/. can both obtain computers other than what PC World shove at them and that they know enough to do so.
Theory was that the prices of computers would fall.
Well it was my theory actually. 8) I extrapolated it from other markets where as something becomes more common, prices fall. This hasn't really happened much with PCs. Why? I would say that it is the ever increasing power of the desktop computer that is responsible.
I'll take your word for it that it doesn't cost that much less to build a 333MHz today than it did five years ago. The materials cost may even have risen a little as I believe Silicon has gone up in price. But the continual re-tooling of the chip-shops, the endless obsoletion of older manufacturing equipment and designs for such manufacturing equipment - surely this has had an impact. If the pace were slower, if the general public was more content to bounce around at 500MHz, wouldn't more people be churning them out with the consequent dropping in price. Wouldn't all that mighty innovation been directed at cutting the costs, making the chips more efficient and cheaper instead of faster?
For the majority of people, the 2.0GHz+ monster is
overpowered.
At least I think it is. It's midnight. I've been running for seventeen hours now and it may be that I'm wrong. My original point was merely that instead achieving progress in cost reduction, we have progress in speed and it might be somewhat better the other way around. The Linux box in the pic shows that which was where we came in.
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According to Microsoft, the password protection feature on Word is not intended to be secure, but should be regarded as a means to protect documents against accidental modification. I use Word and don't ever recall being advised of this, but then I suppose the EULA does warn users never to actually rely on the software for anything important.
I never expected the protection in Word to be anything special, but sometimes (as shown here by Dell) it's better to have no security than false security because that way you take greater care.
But for those of you who never RTA, here is what was the highlight for me:
Microsoft outlines three reasons for Windows being cheaper than Linux.
These are:
1.Lower staffing expenses
2.More efficiency per dollar with WinTel than with a Linux Mainframe.
3.Reduced development costs on Windows.
Number one may or may not be true depending on your circumstances. However, it has little to do with the technical performance of Linux and more to do with people's familiarity with Windows over Linux. However, as I'm still downloading the PDFs I can't comment on their sources for this. I will say that if true on the whole, then it is certainly a situation that will change rapidly even over 2004. I will also say that it is very specific to the company involved. There are plenty of companies out there that are more familiar with *NIX than with Windows and for these people the situation would be reversed.
2. I can't comment on this one too easily either until the report is downloaded, but this seems a flawed reason. The summary on the Microsoft report states
--- $40.25 per megabit of throughput per second.
---$1.79 per peak request per second.
I don't know if these are averages of different systems or what, but to give a figure like this, with no comparison figure for the Linux system (or specs on the Linux system, was it Apache, how was it configured etc) is of dubious value. I would have thought that the areas limited by cost on your server were in the bandwidth / network infrastructure against which server speed was unlikely to hold you back. Please also note that these are using Microsoft benchmarks.
3.This is an equally dubious claim. I have developed on both Windows and UNIX platforms and I can testify to the ease of use of Visual Studio, but not
To summarize, there is a lot of 'it depends,' involved in these tests.
The parent is right - go cold Turkey. Also tell people whose respect you care about what you are doing so that you'll lose face if you give in.
You might also consider taking Ginseng to compensate for the stimulant withdrawal. If you ignore the dosage on the packet and stuff yourself with it, you can get a pretty good buzz too
The Arab oil embargo could have seriously crippled the American economy. That alone is reason enough to go to war.
So by this chaps reasoning, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was justified because the US was blocking Japan from buying oil? Bear in mind that Japan was at war and facing invasion without that oil to fuel their army rather than just an economic downturn.
This fellow is cold.
In terms or Iraq, this ignores the issue about the US and UK government lying about the reasons for going to war. If they came out and said they wanted to start a war in order to annexe the oil supplies then their electorates could debate that. Of course they would be horrified at the idea and that is why the WMD story was used in Britain and why Bush tried to link Saddam with 9/11.
Is when Allies release previously classified documents, that could be potentially quite embarrasing to other Allies
Oh, similar to Bush and the CIA giving up on the WMD claims while poor little Blair is still running around claiming they'll be found. Oh it makes me laugh. (in a black sort of way).
Teeny-bit off topic, but have a look at this. It tells the funny little story of how Paul Bremmer acidentally called Tony Blair a liar.
I posted this earlier, but this is a better place for it. An article on the snub list can be found here.
A knighthood might get you respect locally, but there are people in and from other [most] parts of the world for whom the recognition of the 'Empire' is less than respectable.
Could someone please explain to me the British fetish for its Monarchy ?
It's a media fetish more than anything. Oh yes, there are many who care about the royals, but there are also many who find it somewhere between boring and nauseating such as ME! I'm sure not all US citizens have rushed out to buy the Jessica Lynch autobiography, but the media still went crazy about her.
All I remember of the Princess Di funeral is wanting to do my washing but the laundrette was shut because of it.
Anyway, on-topic, have a look at the number of people who want no part of the honours system. Good for them. I'd love the chance to turn down a knighthood.
Many people in Britain have no idea how little respect they have in many parts of the world. Most people in this country don't know anything about the Opium Wars, or where Britain sell arms to. Ask the average Brit about the occupation of India and you'll get some crap about how lucky they were because we gave them railroads.
I was born in North Wales, which is hardly the Heart of Empire, but I still wish I could distance myself from the history of this country more.
Royals? Bah! Long live the Revolution!
I believe I can top that.
Have a look at the future of solar power.
I don't know how much a wind turbine costs, but would a mesh cage on the front add a big percentage? 'Better to look stupid than to massacre wildlife,' as the saying goes.
If windfarms are less environmentally harmful that pumping out billions of tonnes of pollutants as seems likely though, then surely we should go with the principle of minimum harm.
There ought to be some smart people who will point out flaws in whatever desing they come up and send it back to board untill time stops. It's just too dangerous.
I'm feeling cynical today, but consider this... There is no money to be made from not doing something. There is no status for the project managers, there is no incentive for budget-hungry beauracrats to say at the start "this is a bad idea - lets just put the money back into paying police officers."
And most especially, politicians must be seen to be doing something. A gadget like this will look good on them and if it's crap, then it can quietly be forgotten.
As I say though, I'm cynical today. I'm sure that you're right.
Why does everyone assume a private business has to or should be involved anyways
A private company seems good at first because the government would be tempted to meddle and preserve itself. It only takes 1x10-34 seconds however to realize that putting it in a private company will only move the problem to one degree away.
Ultimately, the only safe solution is if the voters have the ability to scrap a given voting system if it fails them. For this, they must have access to all the relevent information and the power to address any failings. Neither government nor private interests will be sufficient without this.
For the public to be sufficiently aware and responsible enough to address any failings however, they need to be educated and to believe that they can change things. You'll be fighting the government itself if you try to bring that about though.
Switch to Chomsky.
Sort of fresh Tortellini with Four Cheese compared to Moore's Alphabeti Spaghetti, but still of the pasta family.
Still, I prefer pasta to a McMurdoch bullburger so I'm not complaining.
Oh the poll is there, but... oh this is great... it doesn't appear in some browsers. I went there with Opera 7.0 and got almost plain text. On a hunch though I told Opera to identify as MSIE 6.0 and *Wow* what a difference.
Graphics, ads, and a poll. Amazing! That means the site has been deliberately designed to look bad in Opera. Possibly others too.
Heh!
This pales in comparison to the less visible controls that have been introduced recently (e-mail snooping, database consolidation, increasing investigative powers) but it's still not nice.
I'd be surprised if the government monolith is quick enough to keep ahead of the hackers and criminals on this one. Result - false expectations of safety and only the innocent being subject to this. Though less common, I expect non-police officers will get access and be able to use this system on people from time to time. Nice.
I got the Nemi Christmas special!!!!! JA!!! Hmmm, guess you need to be Norwegian.
Of course, all money is initially distributed into the economy as loans from the central bank (Bank of England, Federal Reserve, whichever), so technically speaking, all those notes are markers of debt.
The more you have the greater your debt. Don't think about it too much until the effects of Christmas drinking have work off.
"Isn't this slashdot? Don't be pretentious!"
You mean like that?
Well seeing as there are so many Americans on
"We hold these truths to be self-evident."
I also recommend Milton for all who like the music of language.
It is a grammatical error but it has a five syllable balance which neither the past perfect nor imperfect have and so the poetry is better.
You'll find that Shakespeare (to pick the most famous example) relies on a multiple of five rule. It's one of those rules of poetry, like having three arguments. When you write a speech you'll find you have a greater impact if you say "w results in x,y and z' rather than '...x and y.'
It's an interesting field. Read some of the classical poets to get a field for this.
Oh yes, the strategy in all the movies is dire. But better by far than Gandalfs flashbang has to be the bit in RotK where Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli charge the enemy and the Orcs are all 'what the Hell - chop 'em to pieces,' and then suddenly it's all like the Boys are Back.
Yeah man! I want a ghost army !!!
Thanks mate. Would you also have the Administrator password for the whole network and all machines be a single OBVIOUS lower case english word for months while you re-located MS SQL Server to the same box as Exchange and misconfigured the back-up tools? Because that's all our SysAdmin did.
It was Tiny personal firewall actually, not ZoneAlarm and I had a valid reason for needing to block ports. If this is such a terrible thing then why, after I left, did the same fellow want to install BlackICE on all company machines inside the 10k cisco firewall?
Anyway, you're surely not suggesting that my little firewall could interfere with the fat Cisco box that sat on our connection to the outside world are you? Because that was the point of my post - it was a made up excuse that would be difficult to explain to a jury.
I had four days left, due to leave at the end of the week. Unfortunately, UK employment law is uninterested in cases like this unless you have worked for the company for over a year. I had been there eight months.
It's pretty persuasive to future employers and I shall raise it at interviews (along with the excellent references I get from the people I actually worked with rather than those who fired me). There's not much else I can do under UK law though.
If that's possible then yes, he should sue. It might be extremely difficult however.
I have some experience in this as I was fired as a security risk. The cause? I installed a firewall on my PC. The formal letter stated that this could interfere with their network firewall (a Cisco box that was very over-the-top for a small development company of twenty people).
Of course that wasn't the real reason. It was the refusal to work unpaid overtime and perhaps a tendancy to correct my boss that got me out. However, how do I go about getting this fixed in court? No matter how expert I am in IT (and I am quite expert), they can through an 'expert' back at me in court, and how will a judge know the difference.
And aside from that, what would be the charge? I'd already resigned and was working out my notice. The sole result is that any reference from my former employer now states that I was fired for 'Gross Misconduct.' The burden is on me to convince people that it wasn't fair.
A very nasty situation all round.
I wish the poster good luck if he finds a way to sue, but beware of getting into a credentials battle with various "experts," because most courts wont be able to assess your case on the basis of technical details.
I bought myself a subscription basically because I read
And then I found that it blocked all the ads! This is the one site I've EVER visited that I find the sponsors interesting!
Oh the irony!
Do you have any of those '10 Types of People' ones... V. Witty.
Will also accept one of the 'I'm only wearing black until they invent a darker colour.'
Ta!
Yep - you can still get 333MHz. I meant that you don't see them in the high street shops as full packages, marketed and sold by the reputable chains. E-bay is hardly the mass-market. I'm talking from the POV of the general public. It's a given that those on /. can both obtain computers other than what PC World shove at them and that they know enough to do so.
Theory was that the prices of computers would fall.
Well it was my theory actually. 8) I extrapolated it from other markets where as something becomes more common, prices fall. This hasn't really happened much with PCs. Why? I would say that it is the ever increasing power of the desktop computer that is responsible.
I'll take your word for it that it doesn't cost that much less to build a 333MHz today than it did five years ago. The materials cost may even have risen a little as I believe Silicon has gone up in price. But the continual re-tooling of the chip-shops, the endless obsoletion of older manufacturing equipment and designs for such manufacturing equipment - surely this has had an impact. If the pace were slower, if the general public was more content to bounce around at 500MHz, wouldn't more people be churning them out with the consequent dropping in price. Wouldn't all that mighty innovation been directed at cutting the costs, making the chips more efficient and cheaper instead of faster?
For the majority of people, the 2.0GHz+ monster is overpowered.
At least I think it is. It's midnight. I've been running for seventeen hours now and it may be that I'm wrong. My original point was merely that instead achieving progress in cost reduction, we have progress in speed and it might be somewhat better the other way around. The Linux box in the pic shows that which was where we came in.
G'night all.