The actual complaint is against these publishers AND apple who initially set the contract with the publishers to say that in order to publish on iBooks they could not sell the same eBook for less anywhere else. See http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139517569/lawsuit-apple-publishers-colluded-on-e-book-prices. Seems to me Apple is who is the biggest part of the issue here.
I've been doing essentially the same for years, and early on Macromedia's Dreamweaver was my savior, but I'm migrated away as my skills have got a little better and I rely on CSS more and more. That said if your new to layout and coding it's the only way to go. Further if you are going to get serious you need to get into something like Photoshop (not free), GIMP (OSS), or to a lesser extent but much simpler Paint.NET (free). Otherwise man, find you a Graphics guy and have him do the layout for you. Geeks aren't supposed to be able do everything, no matter what management thinks.
I love how all you Linux/Mac freaks will bitch about Microsoft evolving the way OSX does, or how Windows and its apps are so bloated, and then you pull crap like this out. The reason MS apps are so freaking bloated is that they are trying to support documents created through about 10 years of versioning. Apple does what you're complaining about here and you call it evolution, MS does it and its a travesty.
We now have the ability to work from home in our underwear (if that's your preference) and we're complaining about it now? Come on guys, there really aren't that many things about a mobile workforce and its security and reliability that can't be taken care of by a) a good purchasing policy (3 or 4 year replacement cycle, some for of accidental warranty), b) concurrent login to VPN without the split tunnel, and c) a good antivirus.
Quit your bitching and enjoy getting what you asked for.
We got into the testing phase of deployment and it didn't make it past there, instead we've gone back to 9.0.3. A couple things of note from our experience though:
Doscan.exe isn't the primary client application, rather it is the startup scanner app. It is also the proverbial root of all evil. When Doscan is allowed to run, it kicks off a memory leak in Rtvscan.exe (the real client) and we saw memory usage hit the 75-100 MB range, causing the sluggish performance.
The fix that Symantec is going with now is to keep the startup scan from running through a registry change, either before or after installation (KB article here). I tried this and it did help, but not enough to make it worth it , since I still saw a 30 MB+ memory hit.
As far as I know anything between 9.0.1 and 10.0 is not readily available or even offered unless you call Symantec Licensing Support and ask for it. The very latest version of 9 is the 9.0.3 we have and it seems pretty good.
One stat not presented was business types included in this survey. From personal experience I've seen small businesses (less than 150 employees) without a centralized HR presence do very stupid things when getting rid of staffers in the know. I don't know if this is consistent with other larger companies that are but my current employer (with the central HR) tends to be better about killing access first, getting rid of them second.
It seems the common beliefs here are that a)MS will never buy redhat or b) they are just out to undermine IBM. Another thought is considering the level of grief (from this site and others) that Microsoft gets over continually providing backwards compatibility and thus exposing itself to vulnerabilites, performance problems, etc. maybe they are looking to take a page out of Apple's book (again) and take a stable OS and create a new commercial product from it.
From the flipside of the rest of these posts, I work as a SysAdmin at a private college where the kiddies come back to school with their laptops riddled with every damn virus under the sun (this year Sasser is the popular favorite) and do their very best to spike the shit out of my network. Unfortunately following the school's policy of hand's off the student's computers, it then get very hard to clear it up. We go to great lengths to segregate residence hall traffic from the academic side of the world, just to kiddie X bring his laptop over and shutdown the wireless through out an entire build with Korgo (true) and then have the audacity to come down and bitch about it.
That being said, I'm all for giving high tech services to the students like wireless access, USB keys, 24/7 labs and the like, but when we are shelling out over 12,000 a year for SAV and DeepFreeze, please don't use such lab to surf your favorite 300 pr0n sites nightly.
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The Cisco rep is describing QoS, which should be a good thing and the reporter made the jump to Net Neutrality.
The actual complaint is against these publishers AND apple who initially set the contract with the publishers to say that in order to publish on iBooks they could not sell the same eBook for less anywhere else. See http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139517569/lawsuit-apple-publishers-colluded-on-e-book-prices. Seems to me Apple is who is the biggest part of the issue here.
That may not be a bad idea.
Ahh, users. Would you care to be a little more passive aggressive?
I've been doing essentially the same for years, and early on Macromedia's Dreamweaver was my savior, but I'm migrated away as my skills have got a little better and I rely on CSS more and more. That said if your new to layout and coding it's the only way to go. Further if you are going to get serious you need to get into something like Photoshop (not free), GIMP (OSS), or to a lesser extent but much simpler Paint.NET (free). Otherwise man, find you a Graphics guy and have him do the layout for you. Geeks aren't supposed to be able do everything, no matter what management thinks.
I love how all you Linux/Mac freaks will bitch about Microsoft evolving the way OSX does, or how Windows and its apps are so bloated, and then you pull crap like this out. The reason MS apps are so freaking bloated is that they are trying to support documents created through about 10 years of versioning. Apple does what you're complaining about here and you call it evolution, MS does it and its a travesty.
We now have the ability to work from home in our underwear (if that's your preference) and we're complaining about it now? Come on guys, there really aren't that many things about a mobile workforce and its security and reliability that can't be taken care of by a) a good purchasing policy (3 or 4 year replacement cycle, some for of accidental warranty), b) concurrent login to VPN without the split tunnel, and c) a good antivirus.
Quit your bitching and enjoy getting what you asked for.
I hold the only reason this isn't scored funny is because slashdotters aren't old enough to know who Bob Ross is. How sad.
Cool, now it just needs hacked to turn on the tv when I stop walking. I wonder if I could get them to fit my robosapien? ;)
One stat not presented was business types included in this survey. From personal experience I've seen small businesses (less than 150 employees) without a centralized HR presence do very stupid things when getting rid of staffers in the know. I don't know if this is consistent with other larger companies that are but my current employer (with the central HR) tends to be better about killing access first, getting rid of them second.
It seems the common beliefs here are that a)MS will never buy redhat or b) they are just out to undermine IBM. Another thought is considering the level of grief (from this site and others) that Microsoft gets over continually providing backwards compatibility and thus exposing itself to vulnerabilites, performance problems, etc. maybe they are looking to take a page out of Apple's book (again) and take a stable OS and create a new commercial product from it.
Obviously these scientists have never seen the dash of my car...
From the flipside of the rest of these posts, I work as a SysAdmin at a private college where the kiddies come back to school with their laptops riddled with every damn virus under the sun (this year Sasser is the popular favorite) and do their very best to spike the shit out of my network. Unfortunately following the school's policy of hand's off the student's computers, it then get very hard to clear it up. We go to great lengths to segregate residence hall traffic from the academic side of the world, just to kiddie X bring his laptop over and shutdown the wireless through out an entire build with Korgo (true) and then have the audacity to come down and bitch about it. That being said, I'm all for giving high tech services to the students like wireless access, USB keys, 24/7 labs and the like, but when we are shelling out over 12,000 a year for SAV and DeepFreeze, please don't use such lab to surf your favorite 300 pr0n sites nightly.